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    The Bauhaus was a famous German school of design founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius that had immense influence on modern architecture, art, and design. It emphasized uniting art and technology and focused on functional, unadorned designs suitable for mass production. Notable Bauhaus innovators included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Bauhaus buildings like the Fagus shoe factory and Dessau school rejected ornamentation in favor of clean forms that incorporated industrial materials and processes.

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    The Bauhaus was a famous German school of design founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius that had immense influence on modern architecture, art, and design. It emphasized uniting art and technology and focused on functional, unadorned designs suitable for mass production. Notable Bauhaus innovators included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Bauhaus buildings like the Fagus shoe factory and Dessau school rejected ornamentation in favor of clean forms that incorporated industrial materials and processes.

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    The Bauhaus was a famous German school of design founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius that had immense influence on modern architecture, art, and design. It emphasized uniting art and technology and focused on functional, unadorned designs suitable for mass production. Notable Bauhaus innovators included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Bauhaus buildings like the Fagus shoe factory and Dessau school rejected ornamentation in favor of clean forms that incorporated industrial materials and processes.

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    Bauhaus

     Bauhaus was famous German


    school of design that had
    inestimable influence on modern
    architecture, the industrial and
    graphic arts, and theater design.
    Bauhaus

     Founded in 1919 by
    the architect Walter
    Gropius in Germany
    as a merger of an art
    academy and an arts
    and crafts school.
     the new approach that
    emphasized the
    principle of uniting art
    museum, which is based on a 1964 Gropius
    and technology. design.
    Bauhaus

     influenced by the 19th


    century English
    designer
    William Morris, who
    had argued that art
    should meet the needs
    of society and that there
    should be no distinction
    between form and
    function.
    Bauhaus

     Searching for a solution to


    housing ,utilitarian mass
    production ,urban
    planning.
     The Bauhaus style was
    marked by the absence of
    ornamentation and by
    harmony between the
    function of an object or a
    Barcelona chair,
    building and its design. by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
    Bauhaus

     depended on the more


    forward-looking principles
    that modern art and
    architecture must be
    responsive to the needs and
    influences of the modern
    industrial world and that
    good designs must pass the
    test of both aesthetic
    standards and technology.
    Bauhaus

     Some of the outstanding innovators of the era:


     Swiss painter Paul Klee
     Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky
     Austrian-American type designer Herbert Bayer
     Hungarian-American architect and furniture
    designer Marcel Breuer
     German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der
    Rohe
    Bauhaus

     strictly functional with


    greater emphasis on
    showing the beauty and
    suitability of basic,
    unadorned materials.
     the new approach that
    emphasized the
    principle of uniting art
    and technology
    Wassily” armchair
    Bauhaus
     Bauhaus architects rejected details such as
    cornices, eaves, and decorative details.
     They wanted to use principles of Classical
    architecture in their most pure form: without
    ornamentation of any kind.
    Bauhaus

    The Fagus Works shoe


    factory(1910-1911)
    by Walter Gropius

    An architectural
    language that would
    Incorporate the conquest
    of industrial and
    technological progress.
    Bauhaus

    This complex is arranged


    to serve the needs of
    mechanical process and
    assembly line production
    ,its space, rhythms and
    over all layout
    corresponding to those
    criteria.

    The Fagus Works shoe factory(1910-1911)


    by Walter Gropius
    Bauhaus

    The transparency of
    the glass shell ,is
    counteracted by the
    monumentality of the
    main entrance hall,
    Bauhaus

    Bauhaus ,Dessau Germany (1925-1926)


    by Walter Gropius

     Different surface
    treatment of various
    facades.
     Freed of any
    historical or formal
    Preconceptions.
    Bauhaus

     Enormous glass surface and steel skeleton


     The bridge connects the two blocks added further
    communication between them.
    Bauhaus

    Bauhaus ,Dessau Germany (1925-1926) by


    Walter Gropius
    Bauhaus ,Dessau Germany (1925-1926) by Walter Gropius

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