B is for Bauhaus

B is for Bauhaus
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9780718199470
ISBN-13 : 0718199472
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis B is for Bauhaus by : Deyan Sudjic

This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's not an autobiography, though it does offer a revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary culture. It's an essential tool kit for understanding the modern world. It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake; the creation of national identities; the mania to collect. It's also about the world seen from the rear view mirror of Grand Theft Auto V; digital ornament and why we value imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, and about Hitchcock's film sets. It's about fashion and technology, about politics and art.

Bauhaus Futures

Bauhaus Futures
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9780262042918
ISBN-13 : 0262042916
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Bauhaus Futures by : Laura Forlano

Essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and a play explore the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if it were practicing today? A century after its founding by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, as an “experimental laboratory of the future,” who are the pioneering experimentalists who reinscribe or resist Bauhaus traditions? This book explores the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. Many of the animating issues of the Bauhaus—its integration of research, teaching, and practice; its experimentation with materials; its democratization of design; its open-minded, heterogeneous approach to ideas, theories, methods, and styles—remain relevant. The contributors to Bauhaus Futures address these but go further, considering issues that design has largely ignored for the last hundred years: gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and disability. Their contributions take the form of essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and even a play. They discuss, among other things, the Bauhaus curriculum and its contemporary offshoots; Bauhaus legacies at the MIT Media Lab, Black Mountain College, and elsewhere; the conflict between the Bauhaus ideal of humanist universalism and current approaches to design concerned with race and justice; designed objects, from the iconic to the precarious; textile and weaving work by women in the Bauhaus and the present day; and design and technology. Contributors Alice Arnold, Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, Karen Kornblum Berntsen, Marshall Brown, Stuart Candy, Jessica Charlesworth, Elizabeth J. Chin, Taeyoon Choi, B. Coleman, Carl DiSalvo, Michael J. Golec, Kate Hennessy, Matthew Hockenberry, Joi Ito, Denisa Kera, N. Adriana Knouf, Silvia Lindtner, Shannon Mattern, Ramia Mazé, V. Mitch McEwen, Oliver Neumann, Paul Pangaro, Tim Parsons, Nassim Parvin, Joanne Pouzenc, Luiza Prado de O. Martin, Daniela K. Rosner, Natalie Saltiel, Trudi Lynn Smith, Carol Strohecker, Alex Taylor, Martin Thaler, Fred Turner, Andre Uhl, Jeff Watson, Robert Wiesenberger

Object Lessons

Object Lessons
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0300254164
ISBN-13 : 9780300254167
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Object Lessons by : Laura Muir

A fresh look at the influential pedagogy and practice pioneered by the Bauhaus Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th century's most influential school of art, architecture, and design. After the school was shuttered under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus artists brought their innovative practices and teaching methods to the United States. Gropius himself accepted a position at Harvard, where he would help establish a collection of Bauhaus material that has since grown to more than 30,000 objects--the largest such collection outside Germany. Harvard in turn became an unofficial center for the Bauhaus in America. Written by established and emerging voices in the field, the scholarship presented here expands on the special link between the two institutions, while highlighting understudied aspects of the Bauhaus, such as weaving, photography, and art made by women. Accompanied by beautiful illustrations--some of never-before-published objects--this book yields fascinating insights for Bauhaus devotees and design aficionados. Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums

Inside the Bauhaus

Inside the Bauhaus
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Publisher : Elsevier
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781483135748
ISBN-13 : 1483135748
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Inside the Bauhaus by : Howard Dearstyne

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.

On Craftsmanship

On Craftsmanship
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 101
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ISBN-10 : 9781849432641
ISBN-13 : 1849432643
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis On Craftsmanship by : Christopher Frayling

‘Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.’ The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by – among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers, quick-fix training and the cult of celebrity, it has recently re-entered public debate with a new sense of urgency. Why? A bestseller in hardback, this series of linked essays by the man who ran the Royal College of Art for many years is now available in paperback, and explores the crafts in education, in history and literature, in the contemporary arts landscape, in the language, in the digital age, taking an unsentimental, hard-headed look at craftsmanship today. Only when the romantic cobwebs have been blown away, it argues, can the key importance of the crafts be fully understood.

Bauhaus Undead

Bauhaus Undead
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 0997205687
ISBN-13 : 9780997205688
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Bauhaus Undead by : Kevin Haskins

Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art

Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9781351062442
ISBN-13 : 1351062441
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art by : Edit Tóth

This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has hindered scholars from properly understanding its design work. With a global scope and under-studied topics, the book advances current scholarly discussions concerning the relationship between image technologies and the body by calling attention to the materiality of image production and strategies of re-channeling image culture into material processes and physical body space, the space of dimensionality and everyday activity.

Bauhaus

Bauhaus
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Publisher : Hf Ullmann
Total Pages : 639
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ISBN-10 : 3848002760
ISBN-13 : 9783848002764
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Bauhaus by : Jeannine Fiedler

"The Bauhaus continues to radiate exuberance 90 years after it was founded. The Bauhaus as a school, where handicrafts, art and technology were taught together, has outlived the subsequent fashions in architecture and design. This volume provides an insight into the historical, cultural philosophical, political and pedagogical circumstances of the early years. In the process it portrays the famous Bauhaus directors and teachers, shows the Bauhaus pedagogical methods and accompanies the readers through the individual workshops, where they can rediscover a wealth of form and ideas which retains its uniqueness today. The essays about the current discussion about the Bauhaus as „fixed star of the avant-garde", the fill of in part unpublished visual material as well as the multitude of the aspects covered constitute a comprehensive representation of one of the most significant institutions in the art and cultural history of the Modern. "

(Re)Searching the Digital Bauhaus

(Re)Searching the Digital Bauhaus
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 9781848003507
ISBN-13 : 1848003501
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis (Re)Searching the Digital Bauhaus by : Thomas Binder

The intent of this chapter is to outline a distinctive way of thinking about issues of technology and society that has characterized many Nordic approaches to the topic. One of the characteristics of this approach has been the recognition of the worth of human labour. Technology is not seen as an alien force, but something which is itself a product of human labour, and it can be designed and utilized in ways which augment human skills and expertise, rather than degrading them. What is particularly striking, at least to this author, in this approach is that we are presented not simply with a vision of how things could be better in our society, but with concrete exemplars of how we can build such a better world. It is in recognition of this fact that I have chosen the title of this chapter, as it emphasizes that, while the tradition of Utopian literature is the - lineation of a supposedly idea world which exists no-place (u-topos, in Greek), these visions can be an inspiration for quite practical activities on the ground, as steps towards their realization. As Wilde notes (in the quote above) this is a never-ending quest, as with each achievement, we recognize that there are further bridges to cross and places to be visited.

Bauhaus Museum Weimar

Bauhaus Museum Weimar
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 3777432733
ISBN-13 : 9783777432731
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Bauhaus Museum Weimar by : Ute Ackermann

"The new Bauhaus Museum Weimar presents the oldest Bauhaus collection in the world, famous design icons and the innovative educational concept of the school. This book offers enlightening perspectives on the Bauhaus and its context. How can we shape modern life? How do we want to live together? What potentials do the Bauhaus and its ideas hold for us today?"--Container.