1. FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION

2. history
characteristics
Bauhaus in Dessau
Bauhaus worldwide

3. 1. HISTORY WALTER GROPIUS born in Berlin 1883 – 1969
architect and designer
since 1910 self-employed
person

4. 2. HISTORY founded 1919 in Weimar by Walter Gropius as an art school
Dessau ( )
Berlin ( )
canceled/closed April
1933 by the Nazis

5. 2. CHARACTERISTICS combines art and trade and technology
teaches knowledge about combining forms colors and materials
working with industry
WASSILY KANDINSKY:
"The school’s curriculum was based on the principle that the crafts were equal to the traditional arts and was organized according to a medieval-style guild system of training under the tutelage of masters"
tutelage - guidance

6. 2. CHARACTERISTICS “Less is more“
functional, minimalistic, clean  modern
a lot of glass, steel, metal and wood
cubistic, straight, geometric  simplicity
at that time shocking
famous Bauhaus designers:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Paul Klee
Wassily Kandinsky
László Moholy-Nagy
“Less is more“

7. 2. CHARACTERISTICS own font: Universal from created typography
 today re-issued
drawn from sketches
vertically layouts
re-issued version of “Architype Bayer“

8. FAMOUS FURNITURES Wilhelm Wagenfeld: “Wagenfeld Lamp“
Marcel Breuer, 1925:
“Wassily Chair“
1930:
“Freischwinger S 32 N“

9. 3. BAUHAUS IN DESSAU main time from 1925 – 1932 most buildings
World Heritage
Site since 1996
first steel tube
furnitures

10. Masters‘ House “Klee“
Masters‘ House
“Schlemmer“

11. settlement „Törten“

12. KORNHAUS
next to the river Elbe

13. BAUHAUSFEST
since 1997
combines music, food, university, lights, installations, art and colors

15. BAUHAUS MUSEUM will be built in urban park till 2019
to mark the 100th anniversary
competition is running
two first proposals
Young & Ayata, New York

16. 4. BAUHAUS WORLDWIDE “White City“ in Tel Aviv built in 1930‘s
today in need of rehabilitation

17. 4. BAUHAUS WORLDWIDE
Guggenheim Museum
New York
Villa Tugendhat

18. 4. BAUHAUS WORLDWIDE
Fallingwater house