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The first Bauhaus school was founded in Weirmar, Germany in 1919 however, due to the lack of support by the govenment and city Walter Groupis moved the Bauhaus to Dessau, Germany in 1924 where it was open until 1933.
The Bauhaus building divided the program into 2 major sections by a road and bridge where conviently Groupis' offic was located. The bridge divided the studio space and the classrooms. The building did not have a classical layout but had its own progammatic layout.
- Dorms on east end were connected to the long, one story space (lecture hall and canteen)
- One story space was connected to the main building with two stories of studio spaces
- L-shaped area contained officed and classrooms
http://herculezz.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/bauhaus/bauhaus-model/
The Bauhuas was founded as a school that's inital purpose was to produce a new guild of craftsmen. Groupis' goal was to unify the arts and bring together industry and craft. "The question was not just how to make things, but how to percieve and experience things as well" (Ching, 718). Students were taught by an array of teachers from different backgrounds. They were taugh to use their creativity and form it into reality much like we are taugh today in our studio classes.
Much debate when on about the Bauhaus and its way of teaching modern architecture. Most argued that one can not learn architecture through aesthetics, decrotive design, and individual creativity however, the Bauhaus remained a leading school of modern design where many great modern designers studied and taught such as Ludwig Mies va der Rohe.
Products from the Bauhaus movement:
"...the Bauhaus became a lightning rod for debates, furthering modern architecture in the brief time between the early 1920s and the return of neoclassicism and nationalism in the 1930s" (Ching, 718).
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