Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau

Few schools changed the look of the modern world as thoroughly as the Bauhaus, active only from 1919 to 1933. Its surviving buildings in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau — from the Dessau school building and Masters' Houses to the ADGB Trade Union School added in a 2017 extension — are founding documents of Classical Modernism in built form. UNESCO inscribed the ensemble on the World Heritage List in 1996, recognising a movement that fused austere design, function and social reform.