本书是与柏林的包豪斯设计档案馆/博物馆（Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum fur Gestaltung）——世界上**的包豪斯历史藏品馆——合作出版的。包括建筑设计图、研究、照片、草图和模型在内的约550幅插图不仅记录了已完成的作品，还记录了这个理想主义创意社区的主要原则和个性。从团体体操的非正式镜头到Paul Klee指导的绘画，从范围广泛的建筑设计图到Marianne Brandt设计的线条非常流畅的烟灰缸，这个系列充满了色彩、材料和几何形状，这些构成了包豪斯对“全部”艺术作品的愿景。介绍的艺术家包括Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe和Lilly Reich。

This book is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum fur Gestaltung in Berlin, the world's largest collection on the history of the Bauhaus. Some 550 illustrations including architectural plans, studies, photographs, sketches, and models record not only the realized works but also the leading principles and personalities of this idealistic creative community through its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin. From informal shots of group gymnastics to drawings guided by Paul Klee, from extensive architectural plans to an infinitely sleek ashtray by Marianne Brandt, the collection brims with the colors, materials, and geometries that made up the Bauhaus vision of a "total" work of art. Featured artists include Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Lilly Reich.