Three years later, when Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus founder and director, resigned, students and faculty gave him a book of their photo collages.

Davidson called it “nostalgic German,” though it is nostalgic only in comparison to the work of unrelentingly forward-looking architects like Neutra or Walter Gropius.

With Walter Gropius, the school’s founder, he published a series of Bauhaus books for which he designed everything down to the typography.