Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She is the author of German Architecture for a Mass Audience and Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism and the editor of Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War (Minnesota, 2006).

"Kathleen James-Chakraborty’s Architecture since 1400 deserves the widest possible readership. This is a brilliantly conceived and beautifully written book that presents an original analysis of notable buildings around the world."-Dolores Hayden, Yale University"Architecture since 1400 is a mature, impressive work-truly a global history of architecture. It is hard to imagine a more teachable book."-Nancy S. Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania  "This book is a joy to read. As a scholar, James-Chakraborty has researched in depth, is able to condense her source material superbly, and offers intriguing insights into the buildings/projects under discussion."-ABE Journal

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKathleen James-Chakraborty1. Wilhelmine Precedents for the Bauhaus: Hermann Muthesius, the Prussian State, and the German WerkbundJohn V. Maciuika2. Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius: Between Avoidance and ImitationKathleen James-Chakraborty3. From Metaphysics to Material Culture: Painting and Photography at the BauhausRose-Carol Washton Long 4. Architecture, Building, and the BauhausWallis Miller5. Bauhaus Theater of Human DollsJuliet Koss 6. Utopia for Sale: The Bauhaus and Weimar Germany’s Consumer CultureFrederic J. Schwartz7. Bauhaus Architecture in the Third ReichWinfried Nerdinger8. From Isolationism to Internationalism: American Acceptance of the Bauhaus Kathleen James-Chakraborty9. The Bauhaus in Cold War GermanyGreg CastilloNotesSelect BibliographyContributorsIndex

Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She is the author of German Architecture for a Mass Audience and Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism and the editor of Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War (Minnesota, 2006).

"Kathleen James-Chakraborty’s Architecture since 1400 deserves the widest possible readership. This is a brilliantly conceived and beautifully written book that presents an original analysis of notable buildings around the world."-Dolores Hayden, Yale University"Architecture since 1400 is a mature, impressive work-truly a global history of architecture. It is hard to imagine a more teachable book."-Nancy S. Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania  "This book is a joy to read. As a scholar, James-Chakraborty has researched in depth, is able to condense her source material superbly, and offers intriguing insights into the buildings/projects under discussion."-ABE Journal

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKathleen James-Chakraborty1. Wilhelmine Precedents for the Bauhaus: Hermann Muthesius, the Prussian State, and the German WerkbundJohn V. Maciuika2. Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius: Between Avoidance and ImitationKathleen James-Chakraborty3. From Metaphysics to Material Culture: Painting and Photography at the BauhausRose-Carol Washton Long 4. Architecture, Building, and the BauhausWallis Miller5. Bauhaus Theater of Human DollsJuliet Koss 6. Utopia for Sale: The Bauhaus and Weimar Germany’s Consumer CultureFrederic J. Schwartz7. Bauhaus Architecture in the Third ReichWinfried Nerdinger8. From Isolationism to Internationalism: American Acceptance of the Bauhaus Kathleen James-Chakraborty9. The Bauhaus in Cold War GermanyGreg CastilloNotesSelect BibliographyContributorsIndex

Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She is the author of German Architecture for a Mass Audience and Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism and the editor of Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War (Minnesota, 2006).

"Kathleen James-Chakraborty’s Architecture since 1400 deserves the widest possible readership. This is a brilliantly conceived and beautifully written book that presents an original analysis of notable buildings around the world."-Dolores Hayden, Yale University"Architecture since 1400 is a mature, impressive work-truly a global history of architecture. It is hard to imagine a more teachable book."-Nancy S. Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania  "This book is a joy to read. As a scholar, James-Chakraborty has researched in depth, is able to condense her source material superbly, and offers intriguing insights into the buildings/projects under discussion."-ABE Journal

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKathleen James-Chakraborty1. Wilhelmine Precedents for the Bauhaus: Hermann Muthesius, the Prussian State, and the German WerkbundJohn V. Maciuika2. Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius: Between Avoidance and ImitationKathleen James-Chakraborty3. From Metaphysics to Material Culture: Painting and Photography at the BauhausRose-Carol Washton Long 4. Architecture, Building, and the BauhausWallis Miller5. Bauhaus Theater of Human DollsJuliet Koss 6. Utopia for Sale: The Bauhaus and Weimar Germany’s Consumer CultureFrederic J. Schwartz7. Bauhaus Architecture in the Third ReichWinfried Nerdinger8. From Isolationism to Internationalism: American Acceptance of the Bauhaus Kathleen James-Chakraborty9. The Bauhaus in Cold War GermanyGreg CastilloNotesSelect BibliographyContributorsIndex