bauhaus
/ˈbaʊˌhaʊs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design.
Example Sentences
- "[J]une 22 unanimous approval of the projected bauhaus building, the first of the bauhaus books appears."
- "Not until the 1930's was the American public aware of the significance of the Bauhaus. Several factors contributed to this: American Bauhaus students were returning from Germany; Bauhaus design, as tubular steel chairs and lighting fixtures, were being imported from Germany; […]"
- "While the direct impact of the iconoclastic Bauhaus typography on bookwork is limited, its indirect influence, encouraging designers such as Jan Tschichold to re-examine the whole tradition of typography and its relationship to twentieth-century life, is difficult to overestimate."
- "The Bauhaus has long been celebrated as the most influential art school of the twentieth century. The word Bauhaus means many things to many people: some are inspired by so-called ‘Bauhaus style’ – from tubular-steel furniture to the strict geometry of primary-coloured triangles, circles and squares; others worship its position as one of the greatest emblems of the Modern movement’s ambitious desire to change the world."
- "Two sites with cultural treasures separated by more than 40,000 years – caves with art dating to the Ice Age and buildings designed by a Bauhaus master less than 100 years ago – highlight Germany's submissions for the prestigious World Heritage Site designation by the U.N.'s cultural agency, UNESCO. […] The Bauhaus buildings in northeastern Germany were designed by the school's second director, Hannes Meyer."
Etymology
Borrowed from German Bauhaus (“house of architecture”), from Bau (“building, construction”) + Haus (“house”). The word is derived from the Staatliches Bauhaus (State School of Construction), an art school in Weimar, Germany, founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Bauhaus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbaʊˌhaʊs/
- British English: /ˈbaʊhaʊs/