A design school · 1919
FORM
FOLLOWS
FUNCTION.
Primary colors and pure geometry. The revolutionary school where art met industry, and form forever followed function.
View style detailPrimary colors
Red, yellow and blue, used flat and bold. The reduced palette that became the signature of the whole movement.
Pure geometry
The circle, the square and the triangle treated as the fundamental building blocks of every composition.
Form follows function
Every element justified by its purpose. Decoration for its own sake is rejected as dishonest.
Asymmetric balance
Dynamic, off-centre layouts held in careful tension on an underlying grid — order without symmetry.
ART MEETS
INDUSTRY.
The Bauhaus was unique in fusing art with industry — insisting that beautiful, rational design could and should be mass-produced for everyday life, not reserved for the elite. By reducing design to primary color and pure geometry, it created a universal visual language that still underpins modernism a century later.