Last year Monoskop delighted the architecture and art community by making many of the Bauhaus publications available to freely download. As a perennial fan of all types of architecture communication, I had previously written about the exceptional qualities of Bauhaus-produced books and journals and how these visual teaching tools ultimately influenced more recent, canonical publications. Below we share an edited excerpt from ?Architects? Books: Le Corbusier and The Bauhaus,? a chapter from the larger research project, Redefining The Monograph: The Publications of OMA and Rem Koolhaas.

Last year Monoskop delighted the architecture and art community by making many of the Bauhaus publications available to freely download. As a perennial fan of all types of architecture communication, I had previously written about the exceptional qualities of Bauhaus-produced books and journals and how these visual teaching tools ultimately influenced more recent, canonical publications. Below we share an edited excerpt from ?Architects? Books: Le Corbusier and The Bauhaus,? a chapter from the larger research project, Redefining The Monograph: The Publications of OMA and Rem Koolhaas.To access Monoskop?s treasure trove, which includes titles by visionaries such as Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and others, visit Monoskop's Bauhaus archive.As the Bauhaus operated in a generally experimental and revolutionary status, the information taught was not unified i...