Bauhaus

The Staatliches Bauhaus (German: [ˈʃtaːtlɪçəs ˈbaʊˌhaʊs] (About this sound listen)), commonly known as the Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught.[1] The Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar... the influence of the 19th century English designer William Morris, who had argued that art should meet the needs of society and that there should be no distinction between form and function.[6] Thus, the Bauhaus style, also known as the International Style, was marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus

classic book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/bauhaus designed by Muriel Cooper

Contra: Tom Wolfe: From Bauhaus to Our House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Bauhaus_to_Our_House