The humble shoe, literally our lowest item of clothing, must fit us perfectly. Our body protests loudly if it does not. Still, it is taking perfectionism to the extreme to insist that the buildings of ...

Factory Fanfare Modernist Icon Joins UNESCO Heritage List Walter Gropius' Fagus Factory has long been considered a frontrunner of modernist architecture. Now, a century after it was designed, the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. One of the dreams of Modernist architects in the early 20th century was to imagine that all buildings ...

Designed in around 1910, the Fagus factory in Alfeld constitutes an architectural complex which foreshadows the modernist movement in architecture. Built by Walter Gropius, it is notable for the ...

For 100 years the Fagus Factory has been the production site for model feet. Now the United Nations has recognized the massive factory in central Germany as a landmark architectural masterpiece. A ...

For nine years Walter Gropius was the first Bauhaus director before, exhausted and wanting to concentrate on his own work as an architect, he handed over, unsatisfactorily, to the communist Hannes ...

One of the dreams of Modernist architects in the early 20th century was to imagine that all buildings might one day be prefabricated. Machinery was given almost a God-like status. And so it's not ...