Haus am Horn in Weimar, Germany, was designed by Georg Muche, a painter and Bauhaus teacher. Students chose his plan over a design by Walter Gropius. It was built for the Bauhaus exhibition held from July to September 1923, and it is considered the first building based on Bauhaus design principles. Adolf Sommerfeld, a Berlin developer, financed it with an interest-free loan.
The cubic building has a flat roof and uses steel and concrete. A living room lit by a clerestory sits at the core, with the other rooms arranged around it. Bauhaus workshops made all the furniture and fittings, with designs by Marcel Breuer, László Moholy-Nagy and Alma Siedhoff-Buscher.
UNESCO inscribed it in 1996 within the Bauhaus sites. The Klassik Stiftung Weimar has owned it since 2017, and it reopened on May 18, 2019, after restoration.
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