What was the Utopian ideal of the Bauhaus School, and how does it apply to contemporary society? Full Article at Broadway World

By Bus to the Pictures Tonight, by Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers, from the Suburbia exhibition. A couple of years ago, I temporarily moved out of south-east London, where I have lived for 10 years, into a strange, exotic land. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Marcel Breuer’s tubular-steel chairs and the glass-walled buildings copied from Walter Gropius are everywhere. Can a retrospective on the Bauhaus -- the art school that nurtured such work -- say anything new? Full Article at Bloomberg.com

ART movements that are launched with manifestos often seem both brazen and naive. “Let us collectively desire, conceive and create the new building of the future,” wrote Walter Gropius in his Bauhaus call to arms in 1919. Full Article at Economist

MoMA exhibit explores the roots of modern design It's all around you, from the furniture at Ikea to the office buildings along Route 80 to the metal tube chairs in your office. If you had to give it a name, you might call it modern. Full Article at NorthJersey.com

For more than three decades Monica Pidgeon edited the Bloomsbury-based Architectural Design (AD). This influential and radical journal was a prime source of information on contemporary architectural culture, and had an international reach. Full Article at The Independent