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The Bauhaus Dessau Buildings are a series of buildings designed by Walter Gropius and other leaders of the Bauhaus School in Dessau, Germany in the 1920's and early 1930's. The Bauhaus Building was erected for the Bauhaus school of art, design, and architecture and today is home to the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Both its design and educational program are recognized as seminal in the development of the international style architecture and design, what later became the dominant form of modernist architecture. It was a highly influential building whose design became a prototype for many forms of commercial, institutional, governmental, and educational buildings around the world throughout the latter half of the 20th century.[1] Gropius and subsequent members of the Bauhaus School designed "Master Houses" for the leaders of the school and a new worker-housing development in the south of Dessau, the Torten Estate.
The buildings were constructed in the 1920's and the school operated until 1932, when it was ordered closed by the German Nazi government. The buildings were partially destroyed during World War II. Beginning in the mid-1950's they were re-built and partially restored, and between 1996 and 2006 many were restored using historic preservation principles. In 1996 the Bauhaus sites in Dessau and Weimar were designated as UNESCO World Heritage sites.