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BAUHAUS
ARCHITECTURE
INTTROUCTION
• Introduced by the architect Walter Gropius.
• Bauhaus combines the root of the German verb BUNEN (to build) with
HAUS (house).
• It is the name given to the art school founded by Gropius under the original
title of the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar.
• The Bauhaus, which lasted from 1919-1933, has come to represent the
distillation of the Modern movement and the fundamentalist design ethic.
• Its intellectual origins lay with the Arts and Crafts movement and its early
years (before Gropius moved the school to his designed building in Dessau
where it became known simply as the Bauhaus).
• Under Gropius the Bauhaus became an art school of immense creativity and
influence.
ARCHITECT
Born Walter Adolph Georg Gropius
18 May 1883
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia,
German Empire
Died 5 July 1969 (aged 86)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation Architect
Spouse(s) Alma Mahler
(m. 1915; div. 1920)
Ise Gropius
(m. 1923)
Children 2, including Manon Gropius
Awards •AIA Gold Medal (1959)
•Albert Medal (1961)
•Goethe Prize (1961)
• The minimalist style of Bauhaus art, architecture and design reflected these
ideas of functionality and true materials. Influenced by movements such as
Modernism and De Stijl, Bauhaus artists favoured linear and geometrical
forms, while floral or curvilinear shapes were avoided. Only line, shape and
colours mattered.
CHARACTERISTICS OF
BAUHAUS
UNITING ART WITH CRAFT AND MASS-PRODUCTION
• The American architect Louis Sullivan was one of the first to use the famous
expression ‘form follows function’. This simple phrase became one of the
fundamental ideas of Bauhaus. It means that in design, a form should
always be used for its function instead of its aesthetic appeal. The utility
should come first and excessive ornamentations were avoided.
HONEST MATERIALS
• The minimalist style of Bauhaus art, architecture and design reflected these
ideas of functionality and honest materials. Influenced by movements such
as Modernism and De Stijl, and as a counter-movement to the Art Deco and
Art Nouveau styles; Bauhaus artists favoured linear and geometrical forms,
while floral or curvilinear shapes were avoided. Only line, shape and colour
mattered. Anything else was unnecessary and needed to be reduced.
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