The Industrial Revolution and The Bauhaus The Industrial Revolution‚ which began in England around 1760‚ led to radical changes at every aspect in architecture. The growth of heavy industry brought a flood of new building materials such as cast iron‚ steel‚ and glass with which architects and builders devised structures undreamed of in size‚ form‚ and function. New types of buildings such as rail road stations‚ warehouses‚ exchanges‚ shopping malls‚ exhibition halls were required in the rapidly
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out of the center or Prague and the Old Parliament building is now under the ownership of the National Museum Bauhaus architecture is a great style of architecture for those who prefer minimalism as well as function or style. Buildings constructed from the Bauhaus design are always cubic in shape. They feature four flat sides as well as flat roof tops. The colors of the typical Bauhaus building are generally black‚ white‚ grey or sometimes beige - however an owner can change the color if desired
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Paris hosted the “Exposotion Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes” Egyptian‚ American Indian and African and arts all had their influence on Art Deco in this special decade‚ and so did specific Greek art. With the power of the Bauhaus and the global style ( International Style) after 1925‚ Art Deco arrived with its final development that turned out to be a sign of the industrial age‚ as a result achieving a way to bring together the arts and machine production that had given artists
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From Embodying Ornament to Functional and Aesthetic Space in Early-20th-Century Architecture. "If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." Despite the risk of sounding cliché by opening with a Ludwig Wittgenstein quote‚ this is where we shall begin. It is something that relates back to a basic human instinct that is so deeply rooted in our DNA. Why do we yearn so intuitively for ideas that are silly and nonsensical? The answer is balance. Everything in the universe
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Objectivity(Cambridge‚ U.K.: Cambridge Univ K6hler‚" AmericanPsychologist33‚ No. 10‚ 939-944 (1978). 6. Rudolf Arnheim‚ "Das Bauhaus in Dessau‚" Die Weltbiihne(1927); translated by Arnheim as "The Bauhaus in Dessau‚"Print 51‚ No. 6‚ 60-61 (1997). Teuber‚ "BlueNight by Paul Klee‚" in Mary Henle‚ ed.‚ Visionand Artifact (New York: Springer‚ 1976) J. Abbott Miller‚ eds.‚ The ABC ’s of AO The Bauhaus and Design Theory(New York: Princeton Architectural Press‚ 1991); and Norman Brosterman‚ Inventing Kindergarten(New
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“Germany experienced a period of political calm‚ economic development and social progress in the mid 1920s.” How far do you agree with this judgement? The Stresemann years of 1924-29 have often been portrayed as the “golden years” of Weimar Germany; however this idea has been challenged my many historians. During this period there was an element of political calm but it was mainly typified by political inaction and a failure of coalition governments to agree on any important issues. Economic development
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where they filmed was in Berlin and also in a studio. I found this fact remarkable - the opening scene shows a building that looks like the castle Sans Souci in Potsdam. There is also a lot of Bauhaus architecture and style present. Walter Gropius was one of the persons who tried to popularize the Bauhaus style. He was director of the art school from 1919 to 1928. He believed that the union of art and technology could induce new social conditions through creation of a new visual surrounding. This
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Erik Nitsche Erik Nitsche definitely left a stamp on the world of design during his wonderful 60 year career. He worked in pretty much every field of design. He worked as an illustrator‚ book designer‚ typographer‚ art director‚ advertiser‚ photographer‚ and as a packaging designer. Some of specific work in graphic design included magazine covers‚ exhibitions‚ film‚ signage‚ and posters. Nitsche’s work greatly influenced America’s young generation of designers in the mid-20th century and is still
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Marcel Breuer (2012) International Style (2012). Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. [Retrieved 18 March 2012]‚ from < http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/291280/International-Style> Forty‚ Adrian (1986) Griffith Wingon‚ Alexandra (2000).The Bauhaus‚ 1919–1933. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bauh/hd_bauh.htm (August 2007) [Accessed: 18 March 2012] Sparke‚ Penny (2009) Sparke‚ Penny (1986). Furniture – Twentieth-Century
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New Typography and Art In the early twenties the Bauhaus style was a revolutionary way of creating new artwork; its elementary principles consist of functionality‚ short and simplified content‚ organised design. But just a while before the period of Bauhaus the revolution started in Russia‚ where constructivist themes – often geometric‚ experimental and rarely emotional – were expressed‚ amongst others by the two revolutionary artists El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich. They both believed the expressive
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