It was here in 1927 that the school could also have a full-fledged architecture department.
Despite the short history of this institution, from 1919 to 1933, various aesthetic influences combined over time. When Itten left the school in 1923, the year in which the movement’s first exhibition was held, he was replaced by László Moholy-Nagy, who reshaped the curriculum by embracing technology and a social function of art. Until in 1925 the school moved to the German industrial city of Dessau, beginning its most fruitful period of activity. Gropius designed a new building for the school that has since become not only the symbol of the Bauhaus but also a landmark of modern, functionalist architecture. It was here in 1927 that the school could also have a full-fledged architecture department. In 1928 Gropius resigned, handing over the directorship to Swiss architect Hannes Meyer, who headed the architecture department himself. However, in 1930 he was dismissed. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a famous proponent of functionalist architecture, like Gropius, who determined the so-called International Style, became director. From Dessau came such texts as Klee’s Pädagogiches Skizzenbuch (Pedagogical Sketchbook), Moholy-Nagy’s Malerei, Photographie, Film (Painting, Photography, Film), and hundreds of drawings for buildings and utility objects produced on an industrial scale.