As part of the field trip to Berlin, the group of students and faculty of the Harvard Mellon Berlin portal paid a visit to the historic Bauhaus complex and foundation in the city of Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius, one of the founders of the Bauhaus and the chair of the architecture department at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The group received a tour of the main building from Regina Bittner, the Managing Director of the Bauhaus Foundation, as well as a tour of the exhibition at the Master Houses of the Bauhaus Masters.