BAUHAUS DESSAU

BAUHAUS DESSAU Weimar, Germany - Walter Gropius and Hannes Meyer (1919)

Bauhaus’ significance not only comes from being a school of fine arts, but also its being a production center and a place for bringing the era’s important architects and arts man together, also contributing new debates to art education.

Learning by doing, importance of production in education.

Being the most influencing foundation in the 20th century, the Bauhaus was encouraging the idea of doing by learning. In the academy, students were employing the new production techniques and trying to design new modernist furniture and house equipments with the new production techniques that they found while experimenting with the production process.

An interdisciplinary art school, Holistic approach.

Bauhaus education was based on a total design understanding. According to the total design, All the elements should be designed together in a unifying manner with a harmony.

Industrialization, modernization

Another motivation of the Bauhaus was encouraging students to focus on the industrialization process of the design works. Using modern construction methods, being experimental and production based, and not being limited to the conventional methods was significant motivations of Bauhaus. The architectural language of the Bauhaus Dessau was a physical representation of the idioms of its education.

ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS

Walter Gropius (1883 - 1969)

Born in Berlin, Germany, Walter Gropius was an important figure in modernism. Best known for founding Arts and Architectural School of Bauhaus, Walter Gropius was the director of the Bauhaus between 1919-28 influenced from English Arts and Craft movement and Constructivism. In his early career, he traveled Italy, Spain and England before having joined the office of Peter Behrens in Berlin.