BAUHAUS SCHOOL

BAUHAUS SCHOOL-

• Walter Gropius
• 1925-26

School of Industrial Arts

• Foundations: good design and basic elements
• diverse curriculum

wanted architects to know the craftsmanship as well as being an architect.

1925- he moves the school

• Walter Gropius 1918-1928 director
• Gropius committed to
• functionalism, constructivist ideas, art could improve society
• school had 2 broad ideas: form and
• craft

WORKSHOP WING

Walter Gropius

Dessau, Germany

New Bauhaus location- designed self sufficiently by Gropius

modern industrial and progressive school

Arm Chair Model B3

• Marcel Beuer
• 1927 or early 1928

Functional Art

Geometric aesthetic (associated with Bauhaus School)

Homage to the Square: Apparition

• Josef Albers
• 1959

• he recreates this homage over and over
• interaction between pictorial elements
• asymmetry

physical fact and psychic effect that the viewer may have color and form is now playing a partoptical mixing and perception of depth

Bauhaus is forced to close in 19-- due to the pressures of the

nazi.





Instructors came to United States and taught in numerous

universities