The Bauhaus Notes
A detailed Summary of The Bauhaus Notes
When Walter Gropius resigned as the head of the Bauhaus in 1930, Ludwig
Mies Van Der Rohe (1886-1969) became its director, moving it to Berlin
before political pressures forced it to close in 1933. In his architecture
and furniture he made a clear and elegant statement of the International
Style, so much so that his work had enormous influence on modern
architecture. Taking his motto "less is more" and calling his architecture
"skin and bones," his aesthetic was already fully formed in the model for
a glass skyscraper office building he concieved in 1921.
Working with glass provided him with new freedom and many new
possiblities. In the glass model, three irreguarly shaped towers flow
outward from a central court. The perimeter walls are wholly transparent,
the regular horizontal patterning of the cantilevered floor panes and
their thin vertical supporting elements. The weblike delicacy of the lines
of the glass model, its radiance, and the illusion of movement created by
reflection and by light changes seen through it prefigure many of the
glass skyscrapers of major cities thro
identical. It was therefore the workshops task to provide for those needs
1923, was the first house he had ever designed. It is an extraordinary
house that could be assembled simply from steel panels.
in the most definitive and economic way.
The Bauhaus Manifesto was to unite the teaching of fine art, applied art
context was the use of the flat roof; the pitched roof was seen in
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Approximate Word count = 1989
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
Category: Arts
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