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From Weimar to Tokyo, We Trace the Origins and Influences of the “Japanese Bauhaus”

In the early 1930s, Iwao Yamawaki and Michiko Yamawaki arrived at the gates of the Bauhaus in Dessau all the way from Japan. The two designers—Iwao is best known as an architect, and Michiko studied in the weaving workshop—sat through lectures in German, despite only having a basic knowledge of the
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