BAUHAUS – Initial Exploration

Foreward:

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There is no one Bauhaus it was a collective movement – a design concept that became a way of life.
Bauhaus and ties to Japan – Gropius
Ernst Nuefert – compiles the human body in daily activities. Approach of relating architecture, space and spatial relationships and space allocation and typology from these relationships was the corner stone of Bauhaus.
aim was to create a new designer. architect or typographer that had a universal understanding.
1919 April
fine art vs applied art was blurred through Bauhaus.
idea of synergy – bounders between creativity and …….. are blurred.
function first + standardisation = main principle.
cross disciplinary is quint bauhaus – brave to bring together such different creative minds. Diversity can produce the answers created by new ear.
Barcelona Pavillion –
1925 workshop that opened to design the Bauhaus style.
white city UNESCO Site
both skills and materials were globally distributed it was not just the ideology of Bauhaus.

IKEA (1943) – democratic Design
- form, quality, low production cost,
- laboratory for a better way of life – close linked to Bauhaus
- good products should be for the many
- adapted philosophy to todays consumer society.
changed hands in 1928 to Swiss architect Hanas Myer –> lead to more political socialist direction.
lean more to wards modernisation and unity
true Bauhaus is costly as it was before mass production
late 1920’s MoMa – Afred Bar keen on Bauhaus introduced into US
- push to include bauhaus in everyday life and the avant guarde
- merge of art and tech + interdisciplinary approach and non heriarchitcal
- merge these into the collections of MoMa
(Mark Wigley- Art Critic)
- is it a cult?
- not rational, not about industrialisation, not clarity
- Gropius expressionist – was it management culture that spread instead?
- is Bauhaus now just a catch all label?
With the rise of Nazis’s teachers and students emigrated to the US. style principal moved