BAUHAUS

bau·haus /’bou,hous/

The House Of Construction

1919

Foun

ded

in

Wei

mar

191

9-19

25, D

essa

u 19

25-

1932

Ber

lin 1

932

-193

3

FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION.

WA LT E R G R O P I U SG R O P I U SG R O P I U SG R O P I U SG R O P I U SG R O I

The workshops were laboratories for developing models “ripe for mass production, implements typical of the present day”.

DIRECTOR: 1 9 1 9 - 1 9 2 8 .

na·zi /’nätsē/

The National Socialist German Workers’Party

1920

The

nazi

par

ty fo

rmed

until

194

5- s

trong

ley

oppo

sed

be-

liefs

and

teac

hing

s of

the

Bauh

aus.

THE

CATHEDERAL

OF SOCIALISM

au·to·mo·bile/’ôtəməˈbēl/

The First BMWFactoryIs Built

1922

Bui

lt in

Neu

lerc

henf

elds

tras

se

Ger

man

car

man

ufac

tor

is o

n th

e ris

e. M

imic

ing

the

trend

of m

ass

pro-

duct

ion

prac

ticed

at t

he b

auha

us.

BAUHAUS

CHESS SET

JOSEF

HARTWIG

1922

CH

ESS

PIECEIND

ICATES

THE

MO

VEMEN

TTHAT IT ISCAP

ABLE

OF.

EACH

GOD ISIN THEDETAIL

WASSILY CHAIR

M.BWASSILY CHAIRMARCEL BREUERWASSILY CHAIR1925-1926TUBULAR STEELMASS PRODUCTION

lo·co·mo·tive/,loke’motiv/

EinheitslokStandardSteamLocomotive

1925

Stan

dard

ised

rail

tran

spor

t

Stea

m e

ngin

es b

uilt

in G

erm

any

af-

ter

1925

und

er t

he d

irect

ion

of t

he

Deu

tsch

e R

eich

sbah

n-G

esel

lsch

aft

wer

e m

anuf

actu

red

mak

ing

exte

n-si

ve u

se o

f sta

ndar

d de

sign

feat

ures

an

d co

mpo

nent

s.

A HOUSE IS A MACHINEFOR LIVING IN.

B A U H A U SN E S T I N GT A B L E S

JOSEF ALBER

NESTING TABLES

DESIGNED IN 1926FIT IN TO THEFOOTPRINT OF ONESPACE SAVING ANDF U N C T I O N A L .

DIRECTOR: 1 9 2 8 - 1 9 3 0 .

HANNES MEYER

DIRECTOR: 1 9 2 8 - 1 9 3 0 .

HANNES MEYER

Meyer brought his radical functionalist viewpoint, in 1929, which he named: Die neue Baulehre (the new way to build), that architecture was an organizational task with no relationship to aesthetics, that buildings should be low cost and designed to fulfill social needs.

LESSIS MORE

ty·pog·ra·phy/ ti’pägrəfē/

Futura fontThe mostInfluencialSan serifType Design

1928

Futu

ra fo

nt d

esig

n

Cre

ated

in

Ger

man

y in

192

8, i

t di

spla

yed

the

core

of

the

Bauh

aus

ideo

logy

: st

rictly

geo

met

ric o

utlin

e,

lack

ing

any

embe

llishm

ents

and

just

ba

rely

con

form

ing

to t

he h

isto

rical

sh

apes

of l

ette

rs.

M I E S V A N D E R R O H E .

D I R E C T O R : 1 9 3 0 - 1 9 3 2 .

“God is in the details”.

na·zi /’nätsē/

ClosureOf TheBauhaus

1933

The

bauh

aus

is c

lose

d

The

scho

ol

was

cl

osed

un

der

pres

sure

fro

m t

he N

azi

regi

me.

Eq

uipp

ed w

ith th

e te

achi

ngs

of th

e Ba

uhau

s m

any

artis

t fled

the

coun

try

and

spre

ad th

e m

oder

nist

mov

emen

t gl

obal

ly.

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