Haus am Horn

This small, white, flat-roofed house on the edge of the Park an der Ilm is the only building the Bauhaus school actually built in the city where it was founded. Designed by Georg Muche for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition, it was meant as a model home: rational, functional, filled with light. The central living room rises above the surrounding rooms, drawing in daylight from clerestory windows.

The house is tiny by any standard, and a visit takes fifteen minutes at most. But it is an essential stop for anyone interested in Bauhaus architecture, because it shows the movement's ideals applied to something tangible rather than theoretical. The contrast with the ornate classicism of the rest of Weimar could not be sharper.

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Georg Muche designed the house for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition as a prototype for modern living. It was the only building the Bauhaus ever completed in Weimar. The interior furnishings — including Marcel Breuer's kitchen — were made in the school's workshops. After decades of neglect during the GDR era, it was restored and reopened in 1999.