plan was laid to launch an industrial design studio, led by some of the leading figures in Soviet design: Aleksandr Vesnin, Liubov Popova, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Anton Lavinsky. All were overt constructivists. This became one of the central episodes of the movement in helping shape its ideas and execution.
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Portrait of Aleksandr Rodchenko
Photo courtesy of MOMA, New York
Portrait of Anton Lavinsky
Vkhutemas instructor and pioneering architectural constructivist Aleksandr Vesnin, 1922
Varvara Stepanova's designs for the performance of An Evening of the Book
Photo by Aleksandr Rodchenko
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Haus Am Horn’s interior
Photo by Georg Muche
Haus Am Horn
Photo by Georg Muche
László Moholy-Nagy, 1925–26
Photo by Lucia Moholy
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
he Weimar government requested a public exhibition be organized to demonstrate the school's accomplishments, to be prepared by Gropius. The crowning glory of this endeavor was a single-family home, Haus Am Horn, designed by Adolf Meyer from drawings by George Muche. It’s the only building that could fully be considered “a child of the Bauhaus,” as it was meant to serve as a prototype for whole settlements of such dwellings.