Contents: Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Ideas of Walter Gropius at the end of World War I: Change and Continuity; Gropius and the 1914 Werkbund Controversy; Bruno Taut, Adolf Behne, and the Mission of the Avant-Garde; The first Bauhaus Program and the Arbeitsrat für Kunst; The Inception of the Bauhaus and the Place of the Fine Arts in its Early Curriculum; Johannes Itten, the Bauhaus Preliminary Course, and the Bases of Design; Conclusion: Toward the Period of Consolidation; Appendix A-F; Bibliography; Index.