Tecta is synonymous with Bauhaus thought in a contemporary key. Lauenförde lies on the curved banks of the Weser. it is in the town of Lauenförde that the avant-gardes of design have followed one another for over 40 years: the British architect Smithson, the architect of Mies van der Rohe, Sergius Ruegenberg, Jean Prouvé, the designer Stefan Wewerka or Ati Gropius, the daughter of the founder of the Bauhaus.