The tubular steel Adler bicycle he used to scoot around the Bauhaus campus back in Germany.
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Today, at age 90, with Gropius and his generation buried, the Bauhaus has outgrown all of that.
Personified by elegant Gropius and touted by hyperconnected Johnson, the Bauhaus became a ready standard-bearer for International Style architecture.
When he dedicated the Bauhaus to "building the future anew" in 1919, he did not specify a completion date.
Somewhat disingenuously (given his early socialist sympathies) Gropius successfully pitched the Bauhaus as an emblem of modern American liberalism.
Indeed were it not for the Bauhaus name, there would be nothing to hold these strains of modernism together.
It was Noyes, contends Bruce, who first carried the Bauhaus ideal beyond architecture.
Oswalt is determined that the Dessau school counteract historical ossification by applying "the Bauhaus approach" to addressing the world's ills.
The Bauhaus school, led by German architect Walter Gropius from 1919, worked to do away with the ornamentation and pretenses of bourgeois society.
Before him, Alexander McQueen spectacularly aced both the Bauhaus ballet meme and some genuinely startling things that one could actually wear on the street.
In my first year in Tongji, I became interested in the Bauhaus ideology, and wanted to change the world with the best product design.
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Most major practitioners now esteem the Bauhaus, in contrast with the postmodern architects of Venturi's era--an era that includes Michael Graves and Robert A. M.
This helps explain why German architect Philipp Oswalt, newly appointed director of the reopened Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, dismisses the old design solutions of the Bauhaus.
Ride south for about one-and-a-half kilometres and you will reach the Bauhaus-inspired facade of the Reading Power Station, iconic in its 1930s styling and its 150m-high chimney.
The Bauhaus with which I am more familiar is about embracing humanistic traits, and exercising them on a human scale so as to capture the 'spirit' that was being lost in the mechanization of processes.
Gropius may have agreed: He ensured that the Bauhaus trademark would survive the Weimar Republic by brokering a New Bauhaus in Chicago, run by one of his ex-Bauhaus colleagues, and by promoting the defunct original while head of the Harvard architecture department.
Anything after that might be a little anticlimactic, but the last large gallery provides a capsule view of the Bauhaus, with furniture by Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van de Rohe, and paintings by Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer and Lyonel Feininger, among others, along with the occasional poster.
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What came to be known as the "Bauhaus diaspora" can readily be seen in New York City, where Mies designed the Seagram building and Breuer the Whitney Museum.
Baus, a carpenter, opened the first Bauhaus store in Manheim, Germany in 1960.
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This became known as the International Style exhibition and set the stage for the landmark Bauhaus 1919-1928, curated by John McAndrew with Alfred Barr six years later.
There also are outposts in Russia, Turkey, and Israel, where Tel Aviv was dubbed the White City for its 4, 000 Bauhaus buildings. (One owned by Ronald Lauder opened as a Bauhaus museum in 2008.) The vast gulf between Tel Aviv's modest white homes and the grandiose glass Seagram tower bears witness to the staggering mix of Bauhaus influences.
But while the city that embraced the rule-breaking Bauhaus movement may have found a new role as the unofficial art capital of Europe, it's nothing like Paris or New York: No one teeters around its cobblestone streets in high heels, no one asks what anyone else does for a living or how much they make doing it.
Mies considered the coining of Bauhaus to be Gropius' greatest achievement.
She moved to London to work the 'alt-folk' and singer-songwriter circuits, although in a fairly unfolky manner she's attracted the attention of Bauhaus's Peter Murphy and Mike Mason of Swallow (1990s 4AD act), who both speak highly of her.
Now, the founder of German home improvement chain Bauhaus AG, Heinz-Georg Baus, also joins the billionaire ranks.
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Moreover, for all the rhetoric of functionalism, even in their own time the most notable 1920s and '30s Bauhaus buildings and objects were really aesthetic explorations of new materials and techniques, or conceptual critiques of life in an industrial age--rather than technological inventions or discoveries in the scientific sense.
The former Hoechst headquarters, a redbrick relic of the 1920s, is an admired piece of Bauhaus architecture.
An old house, like theirs, had been expanded by ripping off the rear wall and replacing it with a Bauhaus extension.
" David Esbjornson, the director, has served Mr. Albee exceptionally well, striking just the right balance between amusing archness and horrific realism, and John Arnone's set is a perfect realization of Mr. Albee's stage directions: "I see the environment as uncluttered, perhaps with a Bauhaus feeling.
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