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The Bauhaus University

The foundation in 1902 of the Weimar art school was intrinsically tied to the artist Henry van de Velde. The Bauhaus as it later became known, lead by principal Walter Gropius since 1919, tried to unify all artistic disciplines using the generic term of architecture, valued handicraft and later industry.
After being forced to move to Dessau in 1925, the Bauhaus maintained education of architects and kept up its emphasis on industrial design, supported by the workshops which were striving for modernity. After the Second World War, although trying to connect to the Bauhaus of 1919, the “Fine Arts” department was dissolved by a governmental reform. The rest of the Bauhaus academy continued under the name of “Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen” (“University of Architecture and Building Industry”). In the course of the German reunification in the 1990s, the faculties of Design and Media were founded, bringing back the name “Bauhaus” with a new interpretation of “art and technology”.
Today, four faculties are as close as required by the city, and multidisciplinarity is what the BUW emphasizes.