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Reading Bauhaus: 7 Books to Mark a Modernist Milestone

A roundup of reads for fans of Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, and other big names of the Bauhaus art and design movement.
Bauhaus, the house: Walter Gropius built this Lincoln, Massachusetts, home in 1938.Zack Seckler/AP

If CityLab’s Building Bauhaus series has stoked your appetite to learn even more about history’s most influential art school, you’re in luck: The Bauhaus centennial this year has prompted a flurry of new and reissued books. Below are some suggestions for further reading.

The ABC’s of ▲■●: The Bauhaus and Design Theory
Edited by Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller
Princeton Architectural Press, $29.95