square and bauhaus school

i lived in the northwestern city of chandigarh, india during 1987-88 period. when swiss architect Le Corbusier planned chandigarh (between 1950 and 1965), it became the 1st planned modern city of India. his designs of the buildings and such, transcended Chandigarh into a timeless, pan-cultural statement of the power of architecture. one of his influences was bauhaus school, which set its main trends in contemporary German architecture in the first thirty years of the 20th century. their basic form of design was the 'square' (I am simplifying). it is a minimal form. square is open into all directions. limitless. rectangles or any other basic forms do not have as much possibilities as a square. it is the form of convenience too. bauhaus believed in pragmatic and humanistic approach to design.

by 1932, the Nazis had won a majority in Dessau, Germany and cut off all financial support to the bauhaus. the school was forced to move to Berlin, where it survived without any public funding for a brief time. in 1933, the Berlin police, acting on the orders of the new Nazi government finally closed it.