The legendary Bauhaus movement turns 90 this year. The school was founded by a young architect, Walter Gropius, who wanted to shape products for the future and create a more just society. "We all lived together like siblings," reported Bauhaus student Ré Soupault. Anyone who came to study at the school had already renounced their bourgeois background. Soupault, for example, accepted the need to part ways with her family as a necessary evil.
This didn't necessarily meet with favor among the local population. To the dismay of the citizens of Weimar, "Bauhaus people of both sexes" sunbathed outside in the nude, and their "licentious intercourse" had even produced children. spiegel
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nice article w/nice slide show.
and beta makes it more perfect: the bauhaus and bauhaus, the band, are two of my favorite subjects.
bauhaus is one of my favorite subjects as well. nonetheless, i am looking at the slide 2 and think to myself how unpopular and inhumanistic that outdoor space must be. who would like to stand around in front of that facade in other occasions than maybe smoking a joint while pulling all nighter with your classmates? i think americans need to relex a little bit with the former president w. about the current economy. bauhaus, brutalism or modern architecture in general is an aggressive form of beauty like a castle, but if one thinks about the meanings of those walls, 'it is not hard to visualise what it was like to defend those walls'. (spirit of the machine) what i like about bauhaus and hence want to understand might be the mystery of that period. in spite of the wars and all the terrors, the creative spirits which had been developing since the industrial revolution and the end of 19th century are surreal, alchemical and divine. we only may realize the purposes of a mystery in the aftermath, but i am pacified and no less fooled by an imagination that that is the beauty of love.
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