The Bauhaus Archive collects items, documents and literature which relate to the Bauhaus School (1919-1933), one of the most influential schools of architecture, design, and art of the 20th century and puts them on display. Walter Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus school, and with Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is one of the masters of modern architecture. The original school in Weimar was founded with the idea of creating a 'total' work of art in which all arts, including architecture would eventually be brought together. The Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture and modern design. The school was eventually closed by the Nazis as being "decadent," and many of its illustrious faculty fled or were exiled to England and America where most continued the work. The Bauhaus Archive was designed by Gropius, but there is not that much left of his original 1964 design apart from the silhouette of the shed roofs.