I Love the Bauhaus and German Modernism

Consider writing your essay about Bauhaus architecture (W. Gropius et al.) as a blueprint of modern, de-humanized cities. Traffic machines.

[edit: the expression "traffic machines" comes from Le Corbusier, not W Gropius.]

I also love that cultural school of design and architecture.
May be one point to explore for your essay, a less focused one, is in which period of world history and cultural thought it inserted.
And how this may had an influence in it with, of course, specific responses.
It was a time shaked by big changes. From Relativity in Physics to the increasing difussion of Psychology.
Big debates in the philosophical field.
Also the conceptual sides of Math and Logic were being shaked and debated.
The relatively new Russian revolution, the growing thrends to fascism and nazism.
Functionality as also Aestetics is indirectly related to what was happening in politics, economy, the rest of culture and Science.
Gropius himself wrote a pair of books, small treatises in fact, about the philosophical aspects of it.

Isn’t that why Bowie visited Berlin with Iggy in 1977 to immerse himself in the environment for inspiration?

Wtf are you talkin about