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NC State College of Design

We're holding a lecture and reception to celebrate 100 years of the Bauhaus!

Even if you’ve barely heard of Bauhaus—either Walter Gropius’s early-twentieth-century German school or the design legacy it launched across the world—you’re deeply familiar with its aesthetics. A recent Guardian story commemorating Bauhaus’s one-hundredth anniversary detected its functional, minimalist influence in everything from modern airport signage to Apple’s iPhone and Ikea’s folding chairs. This nationally traveling exhibit of Bauhaus photos launches at N.C. State’s College of Design, noted as one of the first institutions in the U.S. to embrace Bauhaus after World Ward Two. It features one hundred significant works from the seventy thousand housed in the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, showcasing not just the school’s style of photography, but also that of its products and architecture. Classic works by the likes of László Moholy-Nagy are mixed with those of little-known photographers, revealing unexpected facets of a twentieth-century flashpoint. After this reception and lecture by Margret Kentgens-Craig, the exhibit runs through mid-February. —Brian Howe