The National Building Museum and the Kreeger Museum are cooperating to offer an unprecedented tour tracing the legacy of the Bauhaus, the groundbreaking school that changed the course of modern design history. Scheduled for 12 - 22 September 2008, the tour will feature the three cities that successively served as home to the school -Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin- as well as Stuttgart. The itinerary includes visits to architectural landmarks designed by Bauhaus faculty, museums that contain works by Bauhaus masters, and other sites of historic or architectural importance.

The tour will begin in Stuttgart, site of the Weissenhof housing complex, which was one of the largest works by Bauhaus architects, and two important art museums - the Kunstmuseum and the Staatsgalerie. In Weimar, stops will include the Art Nouveau house of Henry van de Velde, who headed the predecessor institution to the Bauhaus, as well the historic homes of major literary figures such as Goethe and Nietzsche. The highlight of the stay in Dessau will be the famous Bauhaus itself -the only entirely new structure ever built for the school- and the houses of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and other leading teachers. The tour concludes in Berlin, where participants will visit the Bauhaus Archives, the National Gallery designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the contemporary Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind.

Payment
A deposit of 1.500 Dollars per person, payable to Academic Arrangements Abroad, of which 350 Dollars is nonrefundable
for administrative fees, is required at the time of reservation. Final payment, by check only, must be received 120 days
prior to departure.

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