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.

Though this was outwardly encouraged, Gropius internally asked that all women be funneled into the weaving workshop, with pottery and bookbinding as alternatives.