Get It Now Walter Gropius Crafted By James Marston Fitch Disseminated As Digital Copy
good short introduction I think, though I can't be sure of course, It's very focused on Gropius of course, in spite of its emphasis on Gropius's own belief in collaborative work.
Now that I think over it, in spite of its lip service to this collaboration, it actually treats Gropius as one of the individualistic architects that he set himself apart from.
So Bauhaus as a school and a community in which many wonderful artists took part particularly Klee who I love remains very opaque.
Still, Gropius's vision is fairly clear I think, though I'm a bit worried that the redbaiting of the time in the US affected some of the artists's protestations of Gropius's politics and their distance from any dreaded kind of socialism.
This is really interesting though, the author's compilation of the Bauhaus vision from various quotes:
.A lot of these buildings have since been demolished, unfortunately This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
The Bauhaus believes the machine to be our modem medium of design and seeks to come to terms with it.
. All design must recognize this fact of life and distill a new set of esthetic criteria from it, Such a process would, for architecture, lead
to "clear, organic form whose inner logic will be radiant and naked, unencumbered by lying facades and trickeries".
. The Bauhaus teaches "the common citizenship of all forms of creative work and their logical interdependence upon one another.
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. The scale and complexity of modern problems necessitates collaborative design, "Any industrially produced object is the result of countless experiments, of long systematic research, " The design school must recognize this and equip the student with "the common basis on which many individuals are able to create together a superior unit of work".
. The education of the designer "must include a thorough, practical manual training in workshops actively engaged in production, coupled with sound theoretical instruction in the laws of design".
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