Dearstyne / Spaeth Inside the Bauhaus

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4831-3574-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 287 Seiten, Web PDF

Inside the Bauhaus presents the story of an idea about how people might live. It is also the story of a school, the Bauhaus, whose life span coincided with the Weimar Republic's and whose history mirrors German history between the two world wars. Through mass-production, the Bauhaus, like the German Werkbund, hoped to change the quality of the designed object and the designed environment for everyone. Quality of life was an important design consideration in the housing schemes developed by Walter Gropius and Hannes Meyer, respectively the first and second directors of the school, and Ludwig Hilberseimer, whose teaching responsibilities at the Bauhaus included the planning curriculum. Howard Dearstyne, the author of the present work, was one of a handful of Americans to study at the Bauhaus and the only one to earn a diploma in architecture. His account of life and education at the Bauhaus is drawn chiefly from contemporary sources, from his letters, from journals and letters kept by members of the Bauhaus faculty, from newspaper articles, and from the recollections of others. Dearstyne also includes historical background of the structure of the curriculum of the Bauhaus as well as discussions of the various workshops and how they functioned prior to his admission to the school.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dearstyne, Howard

Spaeth, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Inside the Bauhaus;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Editor's Acknowledgments;10
6;Introduction;12
7;Preface;16
8;Part I: A Personal Journey;20
8.1;Chapter 1. The Road to the Bauhaus;22
8.1.1;europe bound;22
8.1.2;architecture of the future;28
9;Part II: The Struggle for an Ideal;32
9.1;Chapter 2. Henry van de velde and his Prototype Bauhaus in Weimar;34
9.2;Chapter 3. The Launching of the Bauhaus in Weimar;39
9.2.1;the bauhaus program;39
9.2.2;the beginning of the school;46
9.2.3;the 1919 exhibition;52
9.3;Chapter 4. Handwork Versus Machine Production;56
9.3.1;theo van doesburg alters the course of the bauhaus;63
9.3.2;"art and technology; a new unity";68
9.4;Chapter 5. The Struggle Over the Bauhaus in Weimar;71
9.4.1;the 1923 exhibition;75
10;Part III: The Preliminary Course;84
10.1;Chapter 6. The Three Phases of the Preliminary Course;86
11;Part IV: An Examination of the Workshops;96
11.1;Chapter 7. The Furniture Workshop;98
11.2;Chapter 8. The Print Shop, Typography, and Advertising Art;106
11.3;Chapter 9. The Pottery Workshop;120
11.4;Chapter 10. The Weaving Studio;124
11.5;Chapter 11. The Stained Glass Workshop;133
11.6;Chapter 12. The Wall-Painting Workshop;144
11.6.1;kandinsky;153
11.7;Chapter 13. The Sculpture Workshop;162
11.8;Chapter 14. The Bauhaus Theater;169
11.8.1;the reflected light plays;184
11.8.2;moholy-nagy, kandinsky and the bauhaus theater;186
11.9;Chapter 15. The Metal Workshop;189
12;Part V: Architectural Education at the Bauhaus;196
12.1;Chapter 16. The Teaching of Architecture Under Waiter Gropius;198
12.2;Chapter 17. The Teaching of Architecture Under Hannes Meyer;206
12.2.1;the dismissal of hannes meyer;219
12.3;Chapter 18. The Teaching of Architecture Under Mies Van Der Rohe;221
12.3.1;mies's unknown project;236
13;Part VI: Goodbye Bauhaus;238
13.1;Chapter 19. Bauhaus Berlin— Bauhaus Finis;240
14;Notes;258
15;Select Bibliography;270
16;Index;285
17;Photo Credits;289