Bauhaus (House of Building) was a design school in Germany founded by Walter Gropius. Bauhaus offered courses of arts and crafts. It was famous for the approach to the design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933.
It was the born of the studies based on workshop training where people just didn’t design on paper but actually made the things.
It provided the platform where craftsmen and designers worked together. Here people designed and experimented. The course was containing 6 months foundation course same as here at NID we have. That foundation course consists of colors’ study and geometry. Students at Bauhaus were guided to use the wastage material to make the products.
The institute became famous and women also started applying so the courses for the women were also added. The courses like pottery workshop, book binding workshop, weaving workshop and textile design.
There were products designed in terms of mass production. Chess sets that contained pieces in shape of their moves. A cradle made of circle, rectangle and triangle with primary colors. Wooden toys made of the primary shapes and colors.
Theatre culture was introduced in the school where all craftsmen and designers together made the costumes made of basic shapes and colors. They played together and interact with each other by the theatre too.
Students there have to do paper work for the design. They had to think like engineers and not like artists.
They made a house in Weimar Park. That was ecologically sound, prefabricated parts were put, cheap to build, easy to run. Its kitchen was like a laboratory. The furniture was made of ceramic and steel mainly. The storage was very good in size that can accommodate good amount of goods.
There was a time of hyperinflation and Bauhaus had designed currency notes also.
The school was closed at Weimar because of political reasons and again started in 1925 at Dessau. In Dessau, the Bauhaus building was made a great example of architecture. It was made of glass, steel and concrete. The windows were placed very nicely so that they can control light of outside coming inside.
The movie shows that chair made here were so popular. Photography was also now started. 20th century was called designed by Bauhaus.
The Bauhaus school was closed finally at its final destination berlin. Still the Bauhaus is alive in their passed-out students all over the world and especially in Chicago. It is known as face of Bauhaus.
