Bauhaus

 Bauhaus was famous German

school of design that had
inestimable influence on modern
architecture, the industrial and
graphic arts, and theater design.
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 Founded in 1919 by
the architect Walter
Gropius in Germany
as a merger of an art
academy and an arts
and crafts school.
 the new approach that
emphasized the
principle of uniting art
museum, which is based on a 1964 Gropius
and technology. design.
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 influenced by the 19th

century English
designer
William Morris, who
had argued that art
should meet the needs
of society and that there
should be no distinction
between form and
function.
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 Searching for a solution to

housing ,utilitarian mass
production ,urban
planning.
 The Bauhaus style was
marked by the absence of
ornamentation and by
harmony between the
function of an object or a
Barcelona chair,
building and its design. by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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 depended on the more

forward-looking principles
that modern art and
architecture must be
responsive to the needs and
influences of the modern
industrial world and that
good designs must pass the
test of both aesthetic
standards and technology.
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 Some of the outstanding innovators of the era:

 Swiss painter Paul Klee
 Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky
 Austrian-American type designer Herbert Bayer
 Hungarian-American architect and furniture
designer Marcel Breuer
 German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe
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 strictly functional with

greater emphasis on
showing the beauty and
suitability of basic,
unadorned materials.
 the new approach that
emphasized the
principle of uniting art
and technology
Wassily” armchair
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 Bauhaus architects rejected details such as
cornices, eaves, and decorative details.
 They wanted to use principles of Classical
architecture in their most pure form: without
ornamentation of any kind.
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The Fagus Works shoe

factory(1910-1911)
by Walter Gropius

An architectural
language that would
Incorporate the conquest
of industrial and
technological progress.
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This complex is arranged

to serve the needs of
mechanical process and
assembly line production
,its space, rhythms and
over all layout
corresponding to those
criteria.

The Fagus Works shoe factory(1910-1911)

by Walter Gropius
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The transparency of
the glass shell ,is
counteracted by the
monumentality of the
main entrance hall,
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Bauhaus ,Dessau Germany (1925-1926)

by Walter Gropius

 Different surface
treatment of various
facades.
 Freed of any
historical or formal
Preconceptions.
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 Enormous glass surface and steel skeleton

 The bridge connects the two blocks added further
communication between them.
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Bauhaus ,Dessau Germany (1925-1926) by

Walter Gropius
Bauhaus ,Dessau Germany (1925-1926) by Walter Gropius