debauhaus1-7, Exercise 3: Exile and spread

Model answer (one possible choice):

Walter Gropius went to England in 1934, where he worked with the architect Maxwell Fry (and was linked with the Isokon flats), and in 1937 to Harvard's school of architecture in the United States, where he taught for many years. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe went to Chicago in 1938 to head the architecture school at what became the Illinois Institute of Technology, and designed its campus (check each date and role).

Why "the Bauhaus went to America" is too simple: the people who emigrated took their own versions of the school's ideas into institutions that already had their own traditions, so what developed was a mixture rather than the Dessau school transplanted. Modern architecture and design in the United States and Britain also had other sources, including other European emigrants and local developments. Moholy-Nagy's "New Bauhaus" in Chicago, for example, closed quickly and was re-founded under different names (check). The influence is real, but it is a story of individuals and schools, and the label can hide that.