Bauhaus vs International Style
International Style evolved from Bauhaus — carried Bauhaus principles into a global corporate building language.
Bauhaus
The German school that fused art, craft, and industry into a functional modernism — clean geometry, flat roofs, and 'form follows function' applied to the whole designed world.
- Rejection of applied ornament; function expressed as form
- Clean rectilinear geometry and flat roofs
- Glass curtain walls and ribbon windows
- Honest, industrial materials
- Unity of art, craft, and mass production
International Style
The austere, functional modernism of glass curtain walls and unornamented volumes — 'form follows function' built in steel and glass.
- Rectilinear, volumetric forms with flat roofs
- Glass curtain walls and ribbon windows
- No applied ornament — 'form follows function'
- Exposed structural grid; steel and reinforced concrete
- Open, flexible floor plans raised on pilotis in some works
At a glance
| Bauhaus | International Style | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1919–1933 | 1920s–1970s |
| Discipline | Architecture | Architecture |
| Region | Germany | Germany, Worldwide |
| Family | Modernism | Modernism |
| Formal traits | geometric, minimal, functional, unornamented | geometric, minimal, functional, unornamented |
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