Bauhaus vs. Jonson Wax administrative building

The Bauhaus was established in Weimar in 1919, with the architect Walter Gropius as its founder and first director (Harrison and Wood 1993, p. 338). The school was founded on Gropius’s principle of the importance of combining and unifying all the artistic and technical realms; a separation, which had been to the detriment of existing art schooling (Girard 2003, p. 6-­‐7). Gropius wanted to combine art and technology or “culture and civilisation” (Droste 2012, p. 15). The Bauhaus consisted of workshops with two distinct instructors, a “craft master” who was a

Frank Gehry is a typical post-modernism and deconstructivism architect, Americans like to call him “another Frank” because of Frank Lloyd Wright who was famous as a modernism architect. And he did not like to be constantly compared with Wright, emphasizing their differences. Under the influence of deconstructivism, a lot of Frank Gehry’s design shows full comprehension of the structures and the principle of designing by using the twisted shapes and some uncovered structure form. In this passage, I will analyze the influences of Frank Gehry’s design; the extent of influence that he got from Frank Lloyd Wright, and compare and contrast their works by using Frank Gehry’s house and Jacob’s house by Frank Lloyd Wright

The Bauhaus was an art school formed in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius in Germany. Bauhaus art movement took place between the two world wars. Bauhaus literal meaning is ‘house of construction’. Before Bauhaus craft and design were taught separately in the European art schools but in Bauhaus combined craft, design and technology to build products. It was a revolutionary movement because before Bauhaus products were made in a small scale and by the used of hands, but Bauhaus was all about mass production, catering to a large number of people and making furniture which are highly functional.

Cubism or purism is reflected in the Villa Savoye by its relation to a cubist painting. It had scattered, versatile spaces, sharp edges, smooth-surfaces, geometric volumes are used. In the villa Savoye this is translated through rectangular blocks of concrete, steel, and glass. Also in the fact that the Villa Savoye was designed to be viewed in multiple perspectives, like a cubist or purist painting that was fragmented into various segments to show the multiple views. Cubist painting should be viewed as several experiences placed together to show a sequence of events. Much like the Villa Savoye, this was meant to be experienced like a motion picture. Uninterrupted frames of contrasting, flexible rooms. You were meant to walk through and experience it as a whole, whilst appreciating the individuality and versatility of each space. The continuation of the transparent materials, applied in the ribbon windows and sliding doors is a feature also seen in purism or cubism. As well as creating regularity of geometric shapes. The purity in the sense of colour and ornaments within the Villa Savoye also represents Cubism. The plane white exterior walls and generally neutral colour scheme on the interior is typical of purism; Le Corbusier’s interpretation of cubism. Clean, subtle, simple elements make this Cubist villa stand out in Le Corbusier's architecture.

Towers, cubes and ramps were designed for exhibits, with functionality and lighting in mind. White plaster was used for the exterior and titanium-zinc alloy for the roofs. Vitra Design Museum has curved ribbon-like areas that break up the more angular style of the building. Gehry’s design embodies the relationship of art and architecture to create a unique style.

Gropius, inspired from the constitutive beliefs of the arts and craft movement, had a utopian dream to combine art, design and the industry of architecture in ideal unity. Hence the Bauhaus movement was founded on collaboration of all different art forms. Instructors such as Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy each specialized in their own field of designs and craftsmanship. With these artists shaping the Bauhaus movement, the style and the elements that came along with it are immortalized even today. Walter Gropius’ form-follows-function philosophy still influences every aspect of art including advertising, typography, architecture, and people’s living spaces. The Bauhaus expressed an

Material displacement, absurd formation and facadism, creates discussion, challenges the viewers and provokes polarised opinions. Architects within the current era, are expressive, artistically driven, technologically aided and therefore experimental. These factors have encouraged outrageous designs and statements. The outcomes have provoked controversy, which are expressed through various mediums, such as media, articles, debates and lectures. An architect that has created many controversial buildings, is non other than Frank Gehry. The individual whose works are considered between pragmatic professionalism and radical experimentation. One building that will be further articulated and examined, is the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). A building spawned from a sketch, and an idea of a tree house and as Gehry himself said “A growing, learning organism with many branches of thought, some robust and some ephemeral and delicate”. The intention of the design was to develop it inside-out, which has undoubtedly shaped the branding and marketing efforts of the school. The greatest controversial statement made towards the building, is its absurd and somewhat organic display of a ‘fabric’ like, brick facade. A facade that has been sculpted in a way that has never been attempted quite like that before. All to achieve the concept of ‘movement’, a fabric like quality with a

Between 1877 where William Morris wrote “The Lesser Art”, till 1919 when Walter Gropius came up with his program for artists in training, the world has witnessed not only waves of art movements. But also, one of the most devastating events in the modern history, WWI. However, for one to look at what Arts and Crafts movement have brought to the world of art, and compare it to Bauhaus, would not believe how similar the ideas of both men were. As a result of the industrial revolution, Morris wrote about unifying artists and producers, in hope to fight what he described as “vulgarity” (Gorman, 37). On the other hand, Gropius talked about the need for unifying artists with industry, in order to bring back art which became isolated in the “salons”

The paper will explore the life of an American modern architect and interior designer, Frank Lloyd Wright, analyze his architectural career, and provide examples of his architecture. Wright is considered as the world-renowned American architect of the 20th centuries and a Nature lover. Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in the small town of Richland Center, Wisconsin. Wright’s mother inspired him by using her “Frobel kindergarten methods” to show him the “foundation of advanced geometric designs”, which he uses for his architectures (Eisenman, Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia). He was further inspired by the reflection of the natural world and apply its existing styles to his influential architectures. For more “architectural apprenticeship and training” during 1887-1888, Wright worked with his family

Pereira’s own work demonstrates the use in art of machine-made media and industrial technologies, an approach advocated by the Bauhaus artists in Germany (Phillips Collection). Irene was so interested in science that she required her students to take chemistry, industrial mechanics, and physical study of light at the New York Laboratory School of Design where she taught classes. Irene’s interest in the sciences became a central point and an inspiration for her painting and constructing her work. Over the course of her career, she incorporated an unusual range of materials, including paints mixed with metal, glass, radium, and other new materials, into her compositions (Phillips Collection). This explains the terrain-like sections on the Mecca as they could be mixture of glass, metal, rocks, and ceramic fluids mixed with paint. Because of the different types of material and variety of colors Irene uses for her work, the arrangement allows the viewer to look through shifting facets of color, created by the corrugated surfaces, to the bottom

Rather than reading the Dutch dwelling's interpenetrating planes as an aesthetic contribution to the history of heroic modernism, Friedman explains how its modern spaces were used and understood in modern (and intimate) ways.

The famous American architect by the name of Frank Lloyd Wright based his designs on what he called “organic architecture”. His philosophy of what modern architecture should be is one as unique as his buildings, but nevertheless he was a pivotal figure in the

In the European architecture, rationalism was widely widespread in 1920-1940. Its aim was to find out a solution to the issue arisen after the industrialization and the urbanization and from the relationship between the individual and modern society. The problem was initially analysed by Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, whose solutions lasted at the heart of the movement along with those of the Belgian Mies van der Roe and the French architect Le Corbusier. They tried to give life to architecture, prioritising the role of functionality rather than the decorative style, detaching from both the classical and romantic views.

The Bauhaus school was founded in 1919 in Weimar by German architect Walter Gropius (1883 - 1969). In 1923, Walter Gropius introduced the agreement between “creative artists and the industrial world”. The Bauhaus is most famous for the idea of combining forms and functions. They combined both fine arts and design elements to create a curriculum that trained artists and designers to be capable of producing both functional and aesthetic work. One of the main goals was to bring design and technology together. During the Bauhaus period, Fine art and craft were combined together and aimed toward problem solving for an innovative, modern and industrial society. Nowadays, the Bauhaus legacy continues in modern designs, such as minimalism, or design brands like IKEA. In this essay, I will analyze Bauhaus’s influence on modern design, including architecture and furniture design by exploring different examples from different periods of time.

The Bauhaus is one of the most prestigious colleges of fine arts, as founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius. Although it is closed in the last century, its influence is still showed in today’s design industries now and will continue to spread its principle to designers and artists. Even, it has a thoughtful influence upon later developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design and fashion design as well. Bauhaus focused on creating art by artists without a class system, free of economical fixes, craftsmen in the Bauhaus school could make art for the masses: fine crafted, plain designs and beautiful technique, this viewpoint bread cash out of the strongly obsessional, dedicated artists that honored the ‘total