Halle

Rising from the flat Anhalt landscape like a manifesto in glass, steel, and concrete, the Bauhaus Building in Dessau is the physical embodiment of ‘form follows function’. Designed by Walter Gropius and completed in 1926, its iconic curtain-wall workshop wing, bridge-like administration block, and student dormitories with projecting balconies rewrote the architectural vocabulary of the 20th century. Just a short walk away, the Masters’ Houses — semi-detached cubic villas for Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger, Muche, Schlemmer, and the Gropiuses — showcase the movement’s domestic ideals, their interiors restored to the original color schemes devised by the artists themselves. It is a pilgrimage site for design aficionados, where every door handle, light fitting, and built-in cabinet speaks of a utopian vision to unite art, craft, and technology.