Bauhaus design is everywhere, but its roots are political
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Published 2019-09-13
The answer is in the story of the Bauhaus. It’s the hundredth anniversary of the Bauhaus design school and it still has more to teach us. The Bauhaus is most often remembered for its namesake “style,” but the school’s most lasting impact is its philosophy: that design should serve people.
Quartz News travels to Germany and New England to explore the famous design school’s legacy.
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All Comments (21)
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Currently studying industrial design at an architectural college and this is exactly what we’re learning. It’s so weird when the internet aligns with your real life
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The school was actually founded in Weimar and moved to Dessau later. It then moved to Berlin before being closed down when the Nazis got into power.
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Bauhaus design gets much more fascinating, when you realize that the German Bauhaus school existed for only 8 years. So you can imagine how revolutional and innovative the original idea was. It didn't needed much professors and graduates, only some people with the urge and will to experiment. They've really started something completely new in this exciting era of disruption.
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3:40 your map of Germany is modern borders, but old borders were different
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I have one correction: The destruction of Germany's infrastructure and farmland was minor. I believe the authors' are imagining the widespread destruction of Germany during WWII and conflating it with WWI. WWI's destruction with respect to Germany was economic, social and psychological. Thanks.
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I'm going to the Gropius house next week! The Bauhaus comes up so much during my studies.
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We were studying about bauhaus last week in our theory of architecture class, then this hapoened!
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Thank you for an awesome insight. Knowing our history is key to understanding the present and project into the future.
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5:55 The giant protecting ancient bauhaus secrets
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Ironically, at 3:26 the books shown are in Hungarian rather than German. "Nymdasz Evkonves" means roughly "Printer's Yearbook', from some printing press company.
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i like the focus on design the evolution of modern design is pretty interesting to me even if that means i have to learn about its political value so thanks for that one o/
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This video suddenly brought in interest in me for modern art and architecture
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This is good video making, thanks.
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Couldn't stop thinking about Gerhard Fjuck throughout the video. 😉🤣
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Me: supposed to be watching this for dt at school Also me :reading the comments
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super interesting, thank you
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Regarding the nationalistic use of typeface mentioned at around 3:20 I'd argue that the Basque typeface is another example of an ethnic typeface, although its use as such feels to me to be less systematic and less politically charged.
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so this isn’t about the band
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Bauhaus is love, Bauhaus is life
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thank you all very much
