Bauhaus Masters´ Houses

When the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau, new buildings for an educational purpose were required. Seven houses were built to shelter the Bauhaus Masters and to provide private ateliers. In 1926, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy and Lyonel Feininger, Georg Muche and Oskar Schlemmer, as well as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee were able to move in with their families. Later tenants included Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, and Alfred Arndt. Though Gropius didn´t succeed in his first idea - to build up the houses completely from prefabricated elements to prove the efficiency of standardisation - he created fascinating compositions of white interleaved cubes of different heights. The sides opponent to the street have generous terraces and balconies. The interior was furnitured by the Bauhaus´ own workshop, mainly designed by Marcel Breuer. Renovation works started in 1992 and the houses became part of the UNESCO World Heritage in 1996.