BAUHAUS SIMPLICITY, FUNCTIONALISM, ANONYMOUS AND ITS EMPHASIS ON THE HARDCRAFT ETHIC. DEFINITION

BAUHAUS BauhausBauhaus is a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts. It operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius. The name Bauhaus stems from the German words for "to build" and "house." Ironically, despite its name and the fact its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department for the first several years of its existence. Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture and modern designGermany Walter Gropius Modernist architecture

The Bauhaus had a profound influence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design and typography.artarchitecturegraphic design interior designindustrial designtypography The school existed in three German cities (Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932, Berlin from 1932 to 1933), under three different architect-directors (Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1927, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 to 1933).WeimarDessauBerlinWalter GropiusHannes MeyerLudwig Mies van der Rohe In 1920 two important artistic events help to change the Bauhaus. One was as international conference of the awant-grad that the idea on purity of form and honesty of construction to establish a new constructivist international. The other was the major exhibition of Soviet design arranged interest not only in constructivism but also the social aims which informed it.

L UDWIG M IES VAN DER R OHE, ALONG WITH W ALTER G ROPIUS AND L E C ORBUSIER, IS WIDELY REGARDED AS ONE OF THE PIONEERING MASTERS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE. W ALTER G ROPIUSL E C ORBUSIER W ALTER A DOLPH G EORG G ROPIUS (M AY 18, 1883 – J ULY 5, 1969) WAS A G ERMAN ARCHITECT AND FOUNDER OF B AUHAUS. A LONG WITH L UDWIG M IES VAN DER R OHE AND L E C ORBUSIER, HE IS WIDELY REGARDED AS ONE OF THE PIONEERING MASTERS OF " MODERN " ARCHITECTURE.M AY J ULY 51969G ERMAN ARCHITECTB AUHAUSL UDWIG M IES VAN DER R OHEL E C ORBUSIER

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STAIRCAISE IN P AUL K LEE ' S HOUSE IN D ESSAU. W ASSILY K ANDINSKY WAS HIS FAMOUS NEIGHBOUR DURING THAT TIME

D RAWINGS BY H ERBERT B AYER IN THE STAIRWAY OF THE MAIN BUILDING OF THE B AUHAUS W EIMAR. M ADE FOR THE FIRST B AUHAUS E XHIBITION IN 1923.

R ANDOM BIT OF CEILING THAT I THINK MAKES QUITE CLEAR THE SYMPATHY BETWEEN THE B AUHAUS AND OTHER AVANTE - GARDES OF THE EARLY 20 TH CENTURY, PARTICULARLY MY BELOVED D E S TIJL GUYS AND THE R USSIAN S UPREMATISTS....

D ESIGNED BY K ANNER A RCHITECTS AND BUILT IN 2004, THE M ETRO H OLLYWOOD APARTMENT COMPLEX IS A THREE - DIMENSIONAL M ONDRIAN PAINTING, BUT WITH PEOPLE LIVING IN IT. T HE COLOR SCHEME AND GEOMETRY WERE JUST AS MUCH INSPIRED BY THE PRE - EXISTING TILE DESIGN OF THE M ETRO STATION THAT IT SITS ON TOP OF,

PAINT AND INDUSTRIAL OBJECTS

C ARTAZ INSPIRADO NO PERÍODO

PAUL KLEE SENECIO

A 1927 TEA INFUSER BY M ARIANNE B RANDT HAS SOLD AT AUCTION FOR $361,000, BREAKING THE SALE RECORD FOR B AUHAUS DESIGN.

GROPIUS CHAIRMARCEL BEUER CHAIR THE BAUHAUS BECAME THE CENTRE FOR THE NEW CREAT İ VE FORCES IN DES İ GN, WHICH ACCEPTED THE CHALLENGES OF TECHNICAL PROGRESS

M ARCEL B REUER CHAIR, ONE OF THE VERY FIRST TUBULAR STEEL CHAIRS, DESIGNED IN B AUHAUS ARCHIVES.

M ARIANNE BRANDT DESKLAMP

PETER BEHRENS 1910 CLOCK NEUM SLUTZKY TEAPOT

MIES VAN DER ROHE CANTILEVERED CHAIR

WALTER TEAGUE RADIO HE SOUGHT PERFECTION IN THE RELATIONSHIP OF FORMS AND SYMMETRY IN ITS DETAILING, BUT THE GEOMETRIC LINES AND DIVISIONS BECAME SOMETHING ORHER THAN A RADIO.

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GROPIUS DIRECTORS HOUSE GROPIUS’ ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS EXPRESSED HIS THEME OF A UNITY BETWEEN WORK AND BUILDING.

T HIS IS THE BACK COVER OF THE FAMOUS MIT PRESS B AUHAUS PUBLICATION, ORIGINALLY DESIGNED BY M URIEL C OOPER IN 1969, WITH ADDITIONS IN A REPRINTING IN T HIS PUBLICATION WENT ON THROUGH A FOURTH PRINTING IN 1980.