Bauhaus

The Bauhaus, back in 1919, was the most celebrated art school of modern times. Unfortunately, it was then closed down by the Berlin police following the orders of the Nazi Government in 1933. Bauhaus was founded by the architect Walter Gropius  in Weimar where he believed that the design form should follow its function. His objective was to "reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of all arts". Along with Gropius, there were Expressioninsts artists including Paul Klee, Oscar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky, who teamed up with other designers employed with the Bauhaus.

Students used to work in their workshops to create useful things like the 'Tea Service' made by Marianne Brandt while she was still a student at the Bauhaus.

This is a good example of form follows function where the design is simple and explains the use of it.

                                

                                                                                               Tea Service, Marianne Brandt

Another example of form follows function is this chair seen in the image where it can be compared with pop design that was formed later on.

                                                                                                         Chair from Pop Design

As already mentioned while discussing De Stijl in the previous post, Bauhaus was influenced from De Stijl and shown how the Gerrit Rietveld's red and blue chair was transformed into Marcel Breuer's chair in 1922. Four years later, Breuer transformed his own chair into a more modern one. He experimented with steel pipes after he was inspired from a bicylcle.

Wassily Chair, 1926, Marcel Breuer

Although Bauhaus was influenced from previous movements including Deutscher Werkbund, Constructivism and De Stijl, it also influenced other upcoming movements. One of the most influential architect was Frank Lloyd Wright where he wanted to combine the exterior with the interior and not two separate areas.

Falling Water, exterior

Falling Water, interior

The 'Falling Water' was designed back in 1935 and nowadays it is still very modern with the use of glass doors and windows, reinforced concrete, skylights and having a fireplace in the middle of the room. Infact, we can currently find houses that were inspired from the same Falling Water'.

                                                          Inspired house, Kiawah Island

References:
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Quo, 2013. Frank Lloyd Wright. [image online] Available at: http://joja.info/ARCHITECTS/frank-lloyd-wright [Accessed 26th November 2013]

Fiell C. and Fiell F. 1999. Design of the 20th Century. Germany: Taschen

Group 33, 2011. The Wassily Chair. [image online] Available at: http://group33nom.blogspot.com/2011/04/wassily-chair.html [Accessed 26th November 2013]

the Clog, 2011. Form Follows Function. [image online] Available at: http://blog.erichatheway.com/2011/12/02/20111125.aspx [Accessed 26th November 2013]

La Machine a Habiter, 2013. Bauhaus Design. [image online] Available at: http://lamachineahabiter.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/bauhaus-design/ [Accessed 26th November 2013]