Magdalena Droste has pulled off a difficult task of condensing the vast range of Bauhaus topics to a readable and knowledgeable one hundred page introduction in the Taschen architecture series. It helps that two of the three Bauhaus directors (Gropius, Mies van der Rohe) already have their individual title, eg the Dessau Bauhaus is covered on a eight-page spread in the Gropius booklet with only a two picture to the four-page spread in the Bauhaus title. ( )