Deutsche Welle Explores How Bauhaus Principles Live On at ID
September 12, 2025
Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international public service broadcaster, has featured ID in its program “How Bauhaus Still Shapes Your Life — Even Your Tech.”
Asking, “What does Bauhaus mean for us today — and why is it still inspiring designers, artists, and creators around the globe?” Deutsche Welle chronicles a brief history of the Bauhaus up to the present, which features ID Dean Anijo Mathew and PhD researcher Sylvia Kim discussing and demonstrating how the Bauhaus sensibility persists in the technologies we shape and create today.
How Bauhaus Still Shapes Your Life — Even Your Tech
A century ago, the Bauhaus movement shook up the world of design, art, education, society and how we think about everyday life. Sure, the world looks different now than it did in 1925 — but the Bauhaus spirit of creativity, simplicity, and breaking the rules? Still totally relevant. So what does Bauhaus mean for us today — and why is it still inspiring designers, artists, and creators around the globe?
ID and Illinois Tech features:
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Founding an American Bauhaus
In 1937, Bauhaus emigre László Moholy-Nagy founded ID as The New Bauhaus. Today, ID remains the most direct descendant of the Bauhaus in North America.
For more information on ID’s relationship to the Bauhaus, see Google Arts & Culture’s Bauhaus Everywhere, an in-depth digital project covering the life and legacy of the iconic German art and design school. Artifacts, photos, and documents are featured in ID’s story, an online exhibition called Founding an American Bauhaus.