“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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Kanvinde: Function With Feeling By arZan ⋅ April 7‚ 2010 ⋅ Post a comment Achyut Kanvinde passed away in 2002. He was in his time one of the giants of Indian architecture. As the principal architect of CISR he designed a vast body of institutional work over the decades. Kanvinde studies under Walter Gropius at Harvard in the Functionalist style of design. Himanshu Burte writes an interesting overview of Kanvinde’s work and thought philosophy in this article title “ Function with Feeling ”.
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its open plan. The Bauhaus Walter Gropius developed a particular vision of “total architecture”. He made this concept the key to his work and the work of others who studied under him at a school called‚ The Bauhaus. It taught that all art forms‚ from simple to complex should be designed as a unit. WALTER GROPIUS‚ Shop Block‚ the Bauhaus‚ Dessau‚ Germany‚ 1925-1926. In 1924 a new government was elected who forced the Bauhaus to move north to Dessau. When the Bauhaus program had matured‚ Gropius
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World War I and the Visual Arts Events such as World War I (1914-1918) were the cause for some artists from various groups‚ painters‚ writers‚ and sculptors to gather in places to write to escape from the crisis of violence of war. Many artists were influenced to translate their works as paintings‚ sculptures‚ portraits‚ photographs‚ novels‚ movies‚ etc. Among others; Constructivism which was the inspiration for the ideas of well advanced Russian artists‚ the making of a new world in Art and Architecture
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MODERN ARCHITECTURE: MOMO TO POMO ESSAY Topic 14: How was modern architecture regarded by the Nazi regime in Germany in the 1930s? What effect did their attitude have on the development of modern architecture? NAME: ZHIHENG YANG STUDENT NUMBER: 351874 SUBJECT: ABPL 30050_MODERN ARCHITECTURE: MOMO TO POMO 1 Modern architecture plays a very significant role in the world architecture history. This new architectural style affected the most western countries in 20 th century after the World
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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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Aesthetics and Architecture of 1929 - 1949 Design is not always about aesthetic values anymore‚ but rather the orchestra of how the buildings and environments fit into the city fabric‚ how they achieve goals in terms of city regulations and how the numbers work to fulfill the developments of the project. Architects and urban designers are in the side that should satisfy these whole aspects - so not only the buildings are beautiful in the drawing plans or in the computer screen‚
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they did represented a complete break with the past:‚ not a revisiting of past glories like the Renaissance. They disengaged themselves from the Romantics’ view of our inevitable naturalness. There were no restraints on the search for Truth. The Bauhaus set out to establish a new set of rational rules where form follows function and less is more. The cubists questioned our very perception of reality. The Dadaists and Surrealists defied the power of logical thought‚ revealing that the most creative
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Andrew Selivjorstovs 20047803 | Being Modern | Design‚ 2nd year‚ 1st semester. Dr. Cordula Hansen | 8/31/2012 | | | Word count 2560 Modernism in Design | Modernism as Culture | Modernist Architect | Modernism Today | Modernism in Design. Modernism is a break away from nature‚ harmony and order. Many modernists believed that if they can separate themselves from the usual way of creating art‚ they will discover new amazing ways to create new art. They try to embrace discontinuity
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THE FUTURISTS - Embraced new technology and urbanism as expressions of the modern. more important theoretically and ideologically‚ than formally or technically - First Manifesto‚ Feb.20‚ 1909 on the front page of Le Figaro‚ Paris; important gesture for the future development of media art written by F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944)‚ poet influenced by Walt Whitman‚ who offered "a vision of a world of grandiose individuality‚ a world where machinery was an accepted part of life." Marinetti mailed copies
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