they did represented a complete break with the past:‚ not a revisiting of past glories like the Renaissance. They disengaged themselves from the Romantics’ view of our inevitable naturalness. There were no restraints on the search for Truth. The Bauhaus set out to establish a new set of rational rules where form follows function and less is more. The cubists questioned our very perception of reality. The Dadaists and Surrealists defied the power of logical thought‚ revealing that the most creative
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today however Marcus perceives to be a problem as ‘today the lines are not so distinct and we have to choice but to consider all stylistic possibilities’ (Marcus‚ 2002). Step 4 Image 1: Image 2: Edwardian Interior: Pre modern (c.1901-1910) Bauhaus Interior: Modernist (1920s/30s). Specimen apartment in the Swiss Werkbind’s Neubuh Housing Estate Zurich‚ c.1934. Furniture by Marcel Breuer. Photo Hans FInsler. Image source: http://www.selectism.com/news/wpcontent/uploads/2009/06/marcel-breuer-risdfront
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design by combining art and industry. Although these principles were inherited from English reformers like William Morris‚ Gropius was able to implement them when he reorganized the Arts and Crafts School in Weimar‚ which became the world-famous Bauhaus. The unique educational
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MODERN ARCHITECTURE: MOMO TO POMO ESSAY Topic 14: How was modern architecture regarded by the Nazi regime in Germany in the 1930s? What effect did their attitude have on the development of modern architecture? NAME: ZHIHENG YANG STUDENT NUMBER: 351874 SUBJECT: ABPL 30050_MODERN ARCHITECTURE: MOMO TO POMO 1 Modern architecture plays a very significant role in the world architecture history. This new architectural style affected the most western countries in 20 th century after the World
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constantly changing points of the view and an inner space with the outer one in the moving viewer’s eyes creates the impression of four-dimensionality. To be able to realize my dreams‚ I tried to create the design expressed in the Manifesto of the Bauhaus‚ Walter Groupius utopia "of the new future building that will be an all in one form: architecture‚ sculpture and
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Andrew Selivjorstovs 20047803 | Being Modern | Design‚ 2nd year‚ 1st semester. Dr. Cordula Hansen | 8/31/2012 | | | Word count 2560 Modernism in Design | Modernism as Culture | Modernist Architect | Modernism Today | Modernism in Design. Modernism is a break away from nature‚ harmony and order. Many modernists believed that if they can separate themselves from the usual way of creating art‚ they will discover new amazing ways to create new art. They try to embrace discontinuity
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its open plan. The Bauhaus Walter Gropius developed a particular vision of “total architecture”. He made this concept the key to his work and the work of others who studied under him at a school called‚ The Bauhaus. It taught that all art forms‚ from simple to complex should be designed as a unit. WALTER GROPIUS‚ Shop Block‚ the Bauhaus‚ Dessau‚ Germany‚ 1925-1926. In 1924 a new government was elected who forced the Bauhaus to move north to Dessau. When the Bauhaus program had matured‚ Gropius
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Reading 2 || Josef Albers‚ To Open Eyes Extract on The Vorkurs : Design at the Bauhaus In this reading‚ we are exposed to some of Alber’s design pedagogy at the Bauhaus. He was without a doubt a progressive educator‚ having introduced the concepts of constructivism and de stijl. Although the works produced as a result of his classroom methodologies seemed more like works of engineering and art‚ his careful training allowed his students to develop a design process which was not merely
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THE FUTURISTS - Embraced new technology and urbanism as expressions of the modern. more important theoretically and ideologically‚ than formally or technically - First Manifesto‚ Feb.20‚ 1909 on the front page of Le Figaro‚ Paris; important gesture for the future development of media art written by F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944)‚ poet influenced by Walt Whitman‚ who offered "a vision of a world of grandiose individuality‚ a world where machinery was an accepted part of life." Marinetti mailed copies
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World War I and the Visual Arts Events such as World War I (1914-1918) were the cause for some artists from various groups‚ painters‚ writers‚ and sculptors to gather in places to write to escape from the crisis of violence of war. Many artists were influenced to translate their works as paintings‚ sculptures‚ portraits‚ photographs‚ novels‚ movies‚ etc. Among others; Constructivism which was the inspiration for the ideas of well advanced Russian artists‚ the making of a new world in Art and Architecture
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