or six years the Bauhaus shared a building with the more traditionalist Weimar Academy of Art in a delicate balancing act. But balance could not be sustained. The Academy eventually warred with Gropius. He fought back unsuccessfully, and was forced to move the school. The sad tale played out against a background of bohemian students and staid burghers.
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Worker’s Club. Reconstruction
Courtesy of Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Aleksandr Rodchenko in Paris, 1925
Melnikov pavilion in Paris, 1925
he year of the triumph of Vkhutemas students students and teachers at the exposition of applied and decorative arts in Paris. The Soviet pavilion designed by Melnikov, a teacher in the architecture department, earned the respect of Le Corbusier, who called it the only building in the entire show worth looking at. Aleksandr Rodchenko and his students also designed and built a model workers’ club for the show.
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Model of Worker’s Club, designed and build by Aleksandr Rodchenko and his students, at the exposition of applied and decorative arts in Paris, 1925
Mural workshop, Bauhaus Dessau, 1926
© Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Archiv der Moderne