[kenty]

When done right, Bauhaus can look pretty good. However, living in Germany, I've come to mostly dislike it. The 70's style Bauhaus buildings are everywhere here, they are ugly, clumpy, and break with the medieval/Jugendstil facades in the city centers. It does not help that thet often were built with cheap materials and are hard to maintain bacaude of that. Unfortunately, they often now are under Monument protection so also can' be demolished.

[FuriouslyAdrift]

If you want to see Bauhaus architecture, go to Tel Aviv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_City_(Tel_Aviv)

[YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo]

We don't really have Bauhaus influenced buildings in Germany there are only like 4 buildings still standing besides the campus in Dessau. Most of the architects went to Israel and build Tel Aviv which is the city with the most influence from Bauhaus architecture. The brutalist buildings in the 60s and 70s in Germany are not Bauhaus.

[kenty]

Thanks for this reply! I did not know this fact and the new info made me go down the rabbit hole of Brutalism vs Bauhaus. Very much appreciated. Comments like this make me love HN!

[gumby]

Ironically the Gropius Bau in Berlin is itself far from being a Bauhaus Gebeude.