Milestones

DIED. Herbert Bayer, 85, Austrian-born designer, painter, architect, photographer and one of the last surviving master teachers of the Bauhaus school, which believed that modern art and architecture should respond to the industrial world; in Montecito, Calif. Bayer was celebrated for his contributions to the Container Corp. of America's "Great Ideas of Western Man" campaign in 1950; during the 1940s he played an important role in the renovation plan for Aspen, Colo.