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How Camilla’s grandfather helped popularise the architecture Prince Charles detests

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

Was the Bauhaus the most inspired art school of all time or the malignant source of an uglifying industrial culture which has defiled our cities? Two books look at its influence abroad after 1933 when the Nazis put the jackboot in.

The Bauhaus was nothing if not modern — even if ‘modern’ is now a historical style label and the Bauhauslers were as trapped in their historical circumstances as we are in our own.

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