BAUHAUS

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Staatliches bauhauS

The ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building!

Gropius Bauhaus manifesto, 1919

HISTORY

bauhaus history

Bauhaus was an influential art and design movement that began in 1919 in Weimar, Germany. The movement encouraged teachers and students to pursue their crafts together in design studios and workshops. The school moved to Dessau in 1925 and then to Berlin in 1932, after which Bauhaus—under constant harassment by the Nazis—finally closed.

MAIN CHARAcTERISTICS

MAIN CHARAcTERISTICS

• Functional Shapes: functional and straightforward.
• Simple Color Schemes: architectural color schemes are often limited to basic industrial colors.
• Industrial Materials: tries to incorporate the fewest different materials possible.
• Balanced Asymmetry: unite and balance buildings and rooms by incorporating the same elements throughout without making both sides the same.

materials

MAIN MATERIALS

• TUBULAR STEEL
• GLASS
• CONCRETE

Key ideas

The movement taught “truth to materials” as a central principle. They believed that material should be used in the most ‘honest’ way possible. In this way the nature of the material should not be modified in any way.

WALTER GROPIUS

WALTER GROPIUS

Gropius believed that all design should be approached through a study of the problems that needed to be addressed and he consequently followed the modernist principle that functionality should dictate form. He applied these beliefs to wider social issues, designing affordable housing in the interwar period and seeking to improve physical conditions for factory workers through his architecture.

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