After the First World War, the defeated Germany was seeking a solution to the crisis of values in which he was immersed. Intellectuals believed that the political irrationalism had led to violence, should be imposed now critical rationalism, able to resolve social contradictions.
Gropius was deeply involved in these approaches, their great show of architectural rationalism would be the unique Bauhaus building in which are grouped the characteristics of the Modern Movement: rationally articulated pure volumes (functionalism), innovative use of new materials such as curtain wall glass facades, horizontal windows, no decoration, overall design of all elements and, above all, a conception of space dominated by the interplay between inside and outside through the glass wall.
These principles were accepted and were consolidated rapidly internationally with home workers who Mies van der Rohe, past director of the Bauhaus, raised near Stuttgart in the Weissenhof Estate.