Eric and Sylvie Boissonnas entrusted Flaine's design to Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), the eminent Bauhaus architect whose structural designs are well-known around the world.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Bauhaus architect, once remarked that it was easier to design a skyscraper than a good chair.
The very thing that modernist art historians call opacity is what Bauhaus architects praised as transparency: letting the materials show through in the final product.
But Kokoschka and Kraus were to be more comfortable in Berlin, and Loos's principles were only to be realized on a major scale by the Bauhaus architects.
The house, which was built for Richard M. Elliott, a psychology professor, was influenced by the modest scale of the worker houses designed by Bauhaus architects.
This reflected the "international style" or modernist philosophy shaped by Bauhaus architects early in the century.
The Abbey is the location of a number of structures designed by the modernist Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.
In nearly every European and American city, there are buildings designed in the cool, clean style that Bauhaus architects pioneered.
Several of the most austerely beautiful private homes in Berlin were designed by Bauhaus architects in the 1920's and 30's.
IN Berlin, visitors may also walk through several large "settlements" designed by Bauhaus architects as part of their projected solution to the problems of urban crowding and alienation.