The Bauhaus school was founded in Germany after World War 1 during a time of political and cultural upheaval. It aimed to combine craftsmanship with mass production techniques through its workshop-based teaching approach. Some key characteristics of the International Style it pioneered included rejecting ornamentation in favor of functionality, asymmetry and regularity over symmetry, and grasping architecture in terms of space rather than mass. The school shifted locations and leadership over time as its focus and politics changed, and was ultimately closed by the Nazi regime in 1933.

1. Bauhaus Revision