eyer joined the Bauhaus faculty; an architecture department, as such, finally existed. Exhibition in village of Weissenhof, Stuttgart.
A Bauhaus delegation visited the Soviet Union. Exchanges were difficult because of language differences but gestures and key points came through.
The Bauhaus published the first catalog of its own standardized (mass-production-ready) furniture. These were multi-use and fold-away pieces: metal folding chairs, extending tables, collapsible stools, and many other functional everyday items.
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Armchair B35 by Marcel Breuer, 1928–29
© MET, New York
Bauhaus student projects of the late 1920s in Dessau were almost exclusively factory models, a step beyond what was being done in Weimar, when projects and maquettes merely hinted at possible industrial application.
Malevich visited the Bauhaus seeking to join the faculty but Gropius declined the offer. He does agree to publish Malevich’s book, Bezpredmetnyi Mir (Non-Objective World) in the Bauhaus Books series.
