Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion heralded the modernist era
The Barcelona Pavilion was a hugely significant temporary structure that forms part of the early modernist canon of architecture Designed by modernism’s golden child Mies
The Frankfurt Kitchen. Courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s mass-produced, modular kitchen transformed domestic life but shows that modernist efficiency didn’t necessarily lead
Mies van der Rohe: From the Bauhaus to the height of modernism
German-American architect Mies van der Rohe is one of the pioneers of the modernist movement, devising in a paper sketch the world’s first glass skyscraper
Food for thought: Le Corbuffet brings architectural history to the dinner table
Robert Rauschenburger,. Photo by Esther Choi Writing about food has never been so good, or serious, as now. Le Corbuffet, Esther Choi’s book of recipes
Plastic, disposable and ugly: Why toothbrushes are a crime against design
What would the Bauhaus have made of a world that dresses up simple tools as high-performance sportswear? asks Max Fraser Long before the toothbrush became
Haunted Houses: Meet the Bauhaus designers who went east instead of west
A building in Sotsgorod Uralmash, Yekaterinburg, in the 1930s. Photo by Dima Protasevich Gropius, Mies and Breuer headed to the US – but some Bauhaus alumnae
Icon 194: Performativity, Functionality and Design
Photo by Alessandro Merlo August’s issue looks at how architecture embraced performance over function and blurred the boundaries of design and production This month’s issue
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