#bauspiel

The principle of "less is more" is clearly expressed in this Bauhaus Bauspiel by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher designed in 1924.

Alma Siedhoff-Buscher, Bauhaus Bauspiel, 1923,

The shipbuilding game is an open play system in which the child is not told what to do with the various wooden elements. Freedoms are left that stimulate creativity and imagination. 

When the game was first created in the 1920s, such a pedagogical concept was fundamentally new, and Alma Buscher was way ahead of her time. With the shipbuilding game she succeeded in developing a child-friendly toy that also offers the possibility of imitation with the building elements.

During her training at the legendary Bauhaus in 1923, Alma Siedhoff-Buscher designed this Bauhaus Bauspiel as part of the children’s room in the model house “Am Horn” in Weimar, Germany.

The principle of "less is more" is particularly evident at Bauhaus Bauspiel. During her training at the Bauhaus in 1923, Alma Siedhoff-Buscher designed the Shipbuilding Game as part of the children’s room in the house “Am Horn” in Weimar.

During her training at the legendary Bauhaus in 1923, Alma Siedhoff-Buscher designed this Bauhaus Bauspiel as part of the children’s room in the model house “Am Horn” in Weimar, Germany.