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TEXT ADAPTED FROM “BUILDING OF THE MONTH: AUERBACH HOUSE, JENA, GERMANY,” ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ONLINE BY TWENTIETH CENTURY SOCIETY. FROM TOP: MICHEL FIGUET/LIVING INSIDE; BAUHAUS-ARCHIV BERLIN
Walter Gropius Thanks to a thoroughly researched and documented restoration by its current owners, the architect’s early 20th–century Auerbach house in Jena, Germany, is ready for its Technicolor close-up From top: A Rikizo Fukao painting and a Le Corbusier chair in the Auerbach house, a 1924 villa by Walter Gropius (18831969), in Jena, Germany, restored by Barbara Happe and Martin Fischer. The German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus, photographed at the school in 1926 by Lucia Moholy, one of the institution’s most important early documenters.
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