Walter Gropius was one of the most important architects and educators of the 20th century. The son of a successful architect‚ Gropius received his professional training in Munich. After a year of travel through Spain and Italy‚ he joined the office of Peter Behrens‚ the most important European architect of the day‚ in Berlin. In 1910‚ Gropius left Behrens to work in partnership with Adolf Meyer until 1924-25. This period was the most fruitful of Gropius’s long career; he designed most of his significant
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architects‚ and etc. (Bauhaus movement) The founder Walter Gropius and his fellow students works and ideas still resonate through out the design world. The Bauhaus history was clouded with challenges and scandals. Even with the up’s and down’s history of the movement‚ Bauhaus continues to be recognized as the international style. In this essay I will be introducing who Walter Gropius was‚ the philosophy Bauhaus‚ and conflicts with the Nazi party. Walter Gropius is known as the founder of The Bauhaus School
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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius is regarded as one of the pioneer modern Architects in the world. He was born in Berlin Germany on 18th May 1883 as the third child of Walter Adolph Gropius and Manan Auguste Pauline Scharn Weber. He studied in Technical Universities in Munich and Berlin. He started his career in 1908 as an architect with Peter Behrens who was a German Architect and designer. Noted architects Ludwig Mies and Le Corbusier were his colleagues there. Gropius continued there for two years
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Walter Benjamin was born in 1892. He had a premature death from fleeing the Nazis in the 1940’s‚ but his work still reflects on today’s thinking about technology. In his argument in “Work of Art” Benjamin argues about the traditional aesthetic values of art and the technology affecting it. He talks about modern technology reproducing replicas of the artwork and the loss of aesthetic authority. He talks about the concept of graphic design‚ the emergence of cinema‚ and the effects of it with art.
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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 ”. Function with feeling Himanshu Burte / Business Standard
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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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used‚ and the technic equipment we made‚ are all influenced by both art movement: Bauhaus in Germany‚ and the Arts and Crafts Movement in UK. In this Essay‚ Both movements will be talked over‚ and compared and contrasted. The both key designer Walter Gropius and William Morris‚ and their art works from each movement will be researched. There are many interesting happened and context from Arts and Craft movement. The Arts and Crafts Movement began in the middle of the 19th century. This Movement
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of the two movements including the historical‚ cultural and social context and revealing the philosophy behind each movement. In order to obtain an in-depth understanding‚ the author chooses William Morris from the Arts and Crafts Movement and Walter Gropius from Bauhaus and their significant artworks as case studies‚ and finally complete a comparative study of art works and art movements. 2. Overview of the Arts and Crafts Movement The Arts and Crafts Movement originated from mid-19th century
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Bauhaus Dessau‚ Germany Introduction Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 as a union of the Grand Ducal College of Visual Art and the Grand Ducal Arts and Crafts School in the city of Weimar‚ Germany. It was governed by a social-democratic council in that period. However‚ conservative forces compelled the Bauhaus to leave Weimar and move to Dessau‚ Germany in 1925. Therefore‚ Walter Gropius has planned a complex of new buildings in Dessau. The Fact Bauhaus is a design institution
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THE BAUHAUS KAYE COOKSEY Fundamentals of 2D Design Mr. Brian Ritchard [pic] From the left: Josef Albers‚ Hinnerk Scheper‚ Georg Muche‚ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Hungarian painter and photographer‚ Herbert Bayer‚ Joost Schmidt‚ Walter Gropius‚ Marcel Breuer‚ Vassily Kandinsky‚ Paul Klee Swiss painter‚ Lyonel Feininger‚ Gunta Stolzl and Oskar Schlemmer. Everyone has their own ideas about Utopia and the perfect society‚ especially around election time. It begins with a vision‚ imagination‚ money
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