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BAUHAUS, which opened its doors in Germany in 1919, was the most influential yet short lived design school in history. In just 14 years Bauhaus made the modernist movement mainstream all over the world, proof that the Nazis, who shut it down in 1933, could not suppress its ideas. ‘Form follows function’, ‘Less is more’ and ‘God is in the details’, were pithy mission statements that underpinned their aesthetics. It revolutionised what our homes looked like then, and now, and how our buildings are made.

As the Bauhaus celebrates its centenary, the important part India played in its legacy and influence on global modernism can be traced in two historical movements: the arts and craft approach at the beginning, and its industrial training programme for mid gods century modernists long after its doors had closed in Germany, adopted by Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India post-independence when he installed training programmes at a time of rapid industrialisation.

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