Inside the Bauhaus (eBook)

Howard Dearstyne (Autor)

David Spaeth (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
287 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-3574-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Inside the Bauhaus presents the story of an idea about how people might live. It is also the story of a school, the Bauhaus, whose life span coincided with the Weimar Republic's and whose history mirrors German history between the two world wars. Through mass-production, the Bauhaus, like the German Werkbund, hoped to change the quality of the designed object and the designed environment for everyone. Quality of life was an important design consideration in the housing schemes developed by Walter Gropius and Hannes Meyer, respectively the first and second directors of the school, and Ludwig Hilberseimer, whose teaching responsibilities at the Bauhaus included the planning curriculum. Howard Dearstyne, the author of the present work, was one of a handful of Americans to study at the Bauhaus and the only one to earn a diploma in architecture. His account of life and education at the Bauhaus is drawn chiefly from contemporary sources, from his letters, from journals and letters kept by members of the Bauhaus faculty, from newspaper articles, and from the recollections of others. Dearstyne also includes historical background of the structure of the curriculum of the Bauhaus as well as discussions of the various workshops and how they functioned prior to his admission to the school.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Inside the Bauhaus 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 8
Editor's Acknowledgments 10
Introduction 12
Preface 16
Part I: A Personal Journey 20
Chapter 1. The Road to the Bauhaus 22
europe bound 22
architecture of the future 28
Part II: The Struggle for an Ideal 32
Chapter 2. Henry van de velde and his Prototype Bauhaus in Weimar 34
Chapter 3. The Launching of the Bauhaus in Weimar 39
the bauhaus program 39
the beginning of the school 46
the 1919 exhibition 52
Chapter 4. Handwork Versus Machine Production 56
theo van doesburg alters the course of the bauhaus 63
"art and technology a new unity"
Chapter 5. The Struggle Over the Bauhaus in Weimar 71
the 1923 exhibition 75
Part III: The Preliminary Course 84
Chapter 6. The Three Phases of the Preliminary Course 86
Part IV: An Examination of the Workshops 96
Chapter 7. The Furniture Workshop 98
Chapter 8. The Print Shop, Typography, and Advertising Art 106
Chapter 9. The Pottery Workshop 120
Chapter 10. The Weaving Studio 124
Chapter 11. The Stained Glass Workshop 133
Chapter 12. The Wall-Painting Workshop 144
kandinsky 153
Chapter 13. The Sculpture Workshop 162
Chapter 14. The Bauhaus Theater 169
the reflected light plays 184
moholy-nagy, kandinsky and the bauhaus theater 186
Chapter 15. The Metal Workshop 189
Part V: Architectural Education at the Bauhaus 196
Chapter 16. The Teaching of Architecture Under Waiter Gropius 198
Chapter 17. The Teaching of Architecture Under Hannes Meyer 206
the dismissal of hannes meyer 219
Chapter 18. The Teaching of Architecture Under Mies Van Der Rohe 221
mies's unknown project 236
Part VI: Goodbye Bauhaus 238
Chapter 19. Bauhaus Berlin— Bauhaus Finis 240
Notes 258
Select Bibliography 270
Index 285
Photo Credits 289

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-3574-8 / 1483135748
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-3574-8 / 9781483135748