Another seminal hub of the Bauhaus is the capital of Baden-Würtemburg state, where the main exemplar is the 21-building housing estate Weissenhofsiedlung 1927 (of which eleven buildings survived World War II), designed by the iconic Swiss architect Le Corbusier and 16 others under the direction of Mies van der Rohe and restored in the 1980s. This complex and the movement's legacy are also being celebrated by a multimedia exhibit at the Staatsgalerie from 7 June through 20 October 20: Weissenhof City: From the History and the Present to the Future" delves into the history and the current thinking on modernism present in the city today. Then from mid-November through February 2020 it will host "The Bauhaus Files: A European Project".

Read more in my post Germany Celebrates a Century of Bauhaus Design.

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