HSTARC2: Reaction Blog (Bauhaus)

Bauhaus School, Dessau

It was very unfortunate for the Bauhaus school to stand in their time because they were forced to shut down the school because of the Nazis. The Bauhaus, came from the German word Bau which means build, only lasted for 14 years. I could only imagine, on what could've happened if the Bauhaus continued to run their school for many more years.


For me, the characteristics of a Bauhaus-made product are; 1.) it's function, 2.) lightness [When you see a Bauhaus structure or a furniture, it doesn't have a massive look because of its simplicity], 3.) Simplicity [the usual shapes that the Bauhaus use in their furnitures are the basic ones, square, triangle and circle. With those simple shapes, they were able to create modern furnitures in an instant.]


Based from a video that I saw in YouTube, Bauhaus was a movement. It was a distillation of decorative arts and design elements into basic geometric forms.


I'm still wondering on why the Bauhaus school didn't had an Architecture program in it, they were all about Fine Arts & Crafts, but Walter Gropius, the founder of the school, was an architect.


The Bauhaus school was also led by 3 directors; Walter Gropius in Weimar, Hannes Meyer in Dessau, and Mies van der Rohe in Berlin. It was closed by the Nazis in the year 1933 because they didn't like the production of the Bauhaus project. The Nazis demanded higher structures but Mies declined and just closed the Bauhaus instead.


After viewing pictures of examples of the Bauhaus, I think that some parts in the SDA has a Bauhaus-inspired design (The glass entrance of the lobby, some classrooms in 7th floor and maybe the SDA itself, I don't know just assuming. :-) Hahaha.)

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HSTARC2 Blog update:

Romanesque

Gothic

Renaissance

Baroque/Rococco

American Architecture

Growth of European States

Industrial Revolution

Arts & Crafts

Art Nouveau

Beaux Arts + Neo Gothic

Art Deco

Bauhaus

International Architecture

Louis Sullivan

Frank Lloyd Wright

Le Corbusier

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe