BAUHAUS ARCHITECTURE

Bauhaus  (“House of Building” or “Building School”) is the common term for the Staatliche Bauhaus , combined crafts and the fine arts.

 DURATION -1919 to 1933.

The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

Its founder was and architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during

the first years of its existence.

The Bauhaus had a profound influence upon subsequent developments in subjects like art, 

architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design and typography.

The school existed in 3 German cities

 Weimar from 1919 to 1925,

 Dessau from 1925 to 1932,

 Berlin from 1932 to 1933.

1930 - when Mies van der Rohe took over the school , he transformed it into a private school.

 Finally, by joining all the planes firmly into boxes and interlocking their separate volumes into an asymmetrical composition like the continuous mechanical movement of a set of gears, Gropius’s Bauhaus emerges.

The form of the Bauhaus also reflects Van Doesburg’s influence on the pedagogy.

 In 1922, Gropius changed the focus of the school from craft to the understanding of industrial methods of production.

The classrooms/ administration offices were built on one side of the road, while the studios were across the street. 

These two volumes were connected by the bridge where the professors had their offices. 

The teachers had mastered both the intellectual and technical knowledge needed to produce artistically designed, economical goods.