Bauhaus School of Architecture & Design

Bauhaus Screening Notes:

(an inspiring fight)

• Named after small German town
•  It had an inspiring focal point of many revolutionary design ideas of the 20th century

Different from any other technical school. Simply, Bauhaus found ways of dealing with life/art on an aesthetic level, which played a unique roll in this era. 

Walter Gropius- the idea of Bauhaus: 

• fought in WWI
• He believed in an Utopian idea
• longed for a world where machine was tamed by man

Bauhaus offered unique type of training (artist and craftsman):

• hands-on students training to first understand how to use tools/machinery 
•  then how to design their own work

Bauhaus Staff:Paul Clay, Yohanus Itum and Kandinsky among the Bauhaus staff

• Kandinsky- invented abstract painting
•  he painted what he felt (a visual language)
• Yohanus- metaphysical dreamer
•  responsible for compulsory foundation course

Bauhaus- Radical & Rebellious art student:

• First time design had been taught in a coherent context
• Emphasis on individual student on feelings and thought
• a freedom of expression
• Invented the modern art student
• Color and scientific laws
• Theater workshop- an expression of various arts
• one of the most important features
• architecture, costumes, texture, etc
• Women were enrolled
• Though, they were directed to work more in fabric/sewing instead of metal & glass work

House am Horne:

• experimental house on economic/modern 
• a Bauhaus experimental house created for working class
• changing man into a better being
• storage, organization, and management 
• intended to be mass produced
• created from prefabricated parts
• furnished by Bauhaus crafts

Bauhaus- closed in Weimar:

• In 1925, Bauhaus reopened in Dessau
• had much richer economy
• seemed to be a natural home for Bauhaus
• new Bauhaus extremely plain- huge laboratory 
• Bauhaus created all materials and furniture for Bauhaus
• Photography became a new art communication
• Graphic Design, advertising, and Typography
• banned serifs from typeface
• had an architectural department
• international style
• Bauhaus lasted 14 years; died in Germany:
• Berlin was the last place of Bauhaus
• April 11, 1933 
• Chicago shows design qualities of Bauhaus
• students spread ideals worldwide