Hochschüle für Gestaltung

German educational institution for design 1951–68, established in Ulm to carry on the work of the prewar Bauhaus which had been closed by the Nazis. The school was notable for its rigorous commitment to a systematic design methodology and for the severe minimalism of the designs which emerged from it.

The first director was Max Bill (1908– ). He was followed by Tomas Maldonado (1922– ), an Argentine theoretician. The majority of Germany's most influential industrial designers of the post-war years, Hans Gugelot (1920–1965) among them, graduated from the Hochschüle.