Bauhaus

No, no the Goth Rock band of the early 1980s, but this old place in Germany.

There are some aspects about this movement which I find laudable. For example, reclamation - its use of found materials (although largely because they couldn't afford to buy them early on). Also, the craft aspect, and the workshop approach to learning. So many of the modern technique of education were gleamed for the Bauhaus.

But there are also some aspects which make it less radical and revolutionary as some would have us believe. The later designs it produced were concerned largely with functional ideas and the need for mass production, which can only really be concerns for an organisation which believes in capitalism. And although the Nazis eventually closed it, they used many of the designs right through the Nazi era (anyone who knows anything about Nazi architecture will be well aware of the striking modernism employed in many of the designs, although this contrasts with much of the classically orientated stuff they also loved).