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The Bauhaus movement, despite its short existence, fundamentally reshaped design and education by advocating for a universal language of form and function, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration, and promoting a holistic approach to art and industry that continues to influence global design and architecture today.
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Free-thinking quarters glue honest revolutionary the white OD car fast
Sherman that is Bauhaus
After 100 years the ideals of the Bauhaus are more relevant today than they were then the spa's
hottia for 100 years ago Bauhaus reimagined the future
how will we learn without we let
The Bauhaus influence is everywhere guns house set out to formulate a language of design. That was universal
That everything has an ideal height an ideal size and that's what optimizes its utility
But not sneak an you know, they want it's kind of boosted gap for me wherever your partner remember
You're a designer what we really whether you're an artist
Bauhaus is a legend the brilliance of the Bauhaus school remains undiminished even today
Even though its existence was short-lived. It continues to shape the world we live in
New approaches to education and training architecture painting dance and design were explored and developed here
When Hitler seized power and forced the school to shut down its artists architects and visionaries
Emigrated fanning out and spreading the Bauhaus doctrine around the world
So what exactly lies behind the enduring appeal of Bauhaus a
British furniture designer with Nigerian roots
Janka alluri lives in London his fascination with chairs places him firmly in the Bauhaus tradition
He trolls the city in search of inspiration
On the top deck of the boss by the window in London was always it is always chairs everywhere
You know, I might look up there. It's on my foot chair there or I don't know
Yeah, so I'm just always looking around and always, you know inquisitive to kind of see what to run, you know
And why fine - yeah, you never know what you never know. That's the best beauty of what I do
Janka doesn't find anything that strikes his fancy on the street. So he tries his luck in a charity shop
This is quite nice as awesome
This is quite cool you
Know the first process is sort of looking like seeing the chair
And then second would be kind of having a parable in my head
so having that the narrative of the chair this chair this chair I see it's definitely
1940s 53 it's quite an old chair isn't it's not it's not it's not
Exactly a so, it's the fifties sixties
Yanker is drawn to pieces that have a story to tell he likes to work intuitively
So our life pieces with character, so this is this has got a lot of character so it's in you know
Kind of also, you know, I like the way they've kind of used different materials
So definitely have some ideas on color palettes because that sort of speaks to me because what I do is that you know
I look at the kind of section
So we're kind of thinking of a line in you know in there in the jungle maybe
Or in or in there was there could be a lion in you know, maybe this could be green. I don't know
Well, just I just think about the context of where I would see, you know, these you know, these these these feet these line feet
And also this kinda reminds me of a musical instrument
Like a guitar or something. I don't know
Intuitive design that was a bedrock principle of the Bauhaus
The art school in vimar Germany was founded in 1919 by architect vertical pious
He was joined there by many of the most venerated artists of the time
After the ordeal of the first world war they were eager to remake the world from the ground up
this called for a new breed of industrial designer Gropius believed and new forms of training a
Foundation course was compulsory for all students
It taught basic techniques of art and craftsmanship
It was developed by Swiss painter. Johannes itten. He encouraged students to work intuitively and
experiment with forms colors and materials
The characteristic colours and forms of the Bauhaus influenced artists such as Paul clay and Vasily Kandinsky
The primary colors red yellow and blue and the geometrical forms of the square
Triangle and circle have become the trademark of the Bauhaus
There's an abundance of formant color in Yankee alluri studio in London
My studies designer furniture University so I have a degree in
Furniture making and a product design. You kind of teach yourself. I love the processes
I should go alone and it was a more vertical so lots of art history
looking at Bauhaus the kinetic art history of
design of
Photography there was a lot of making which was a shame
Carpentry set design and ceramics workshops formed the cornerstone of practical training at the Bauhaus school
That would have been right up yonkers street each chair tells part of his own story
Actually understood why my parents are loved to Nigeria and what it meant to be African and be a black British
You know in London and how powerful that wasn't how you know
That I I felt like I had power
Because you know not everyone is like is is much in is British
So what I wanted to do was retool my narrative using Nigerian parables
Yeah, these sort of thing there was an interest as through year
I recently found out that the University of if it was that she designed bind it with Israeli architect. He was to study that the
Bauhaus school
And I think it fit me
it's one of the best distr first I've ever seen actually because it was just mind-blowing and
Just seeing I don't know just just not knowing that BIOS actually existed in Nigeria
I think
Even just thinking about makes me smart makes me happy and I'm if you look at my Instagram when I posted this image of you
Know these free images people were just fast Mia
The University of affair campus in Nigeria was designed in the 1960s by Bauhaus graduates Aria Sheeran
Africa has both shaped and been shaped by Bauhaus
It looks like African
Certainly influences from Africa in this PC
This is indeed the African chair a collaborative effort by two
Bauhaus masters designer Marcel Breuer and textile artist Gunther Stinson
Just called Africa chair. Laughs yeah, I mean we about even knowing I
Love marcel breuer as well and I think I have a copy of this
Carry in my studio. I don't copy it could be wrong. You know, it's actually, you know, I brought it from the charity shop
In in Chyzyk
Just I mean I like this
Hand woven texture here is amazing as well. Just kind of bamboo. It is really nice
It's just a really clean design. Yeah
Yeah, love it
It was in
1925 once the school relocated to Dessau that Bauhaus started to become more widely known
From his glass-fronted office vattic or pious overlooked the school premises
Nothing escaped him including all the student goings-on in the work shop next door
The students are now long gone today Claudia peffern is the director of the Bauhaus Dessau foundation
Bauhaus was pretty crazy
It has to be said when you look at the Bauhaus building you can see how radical it was
And then there were all these girls with short hair working together with boys 50 meters all very casual
It was quite a provocation
If they don't get a smile on their provocative
The Bauhaus sought to create an impression of transparency of Airy radiant space
The gopis vast guns clad Gropius was very aware that a new era had dawned
And that a new era called for new forms and new solutions for living
He saw this reflected in every aspect of industry, but not really in architecture
as an architect or not nickimja villages in
The new clear language of forms was put into practice in the nearby masters houses
Battacor pious designed these homes for the Bauhaus teachers and their families
construction began in 1925
The homes of vitae core pious and lászló moholy-nagy were destroyed in the second world war in
2014 they were rebuilt but not so much we constructed as
reinterpreted
Artist Olaf Nikolai designed the interior of the Mahoney Nagy house
Wall in Rochester as an artist, Mohan Lodge was very interested in light
So I made light a central part of my design and figured out a way to make it an element of a visitors experience
And one way to draw attention to light is to refractive
Mist pressure
The over Fletcher I made the surface of the artifact the building my playing field
Chef Danny villag. I wanted to work with what was already there
I also wanted to bring out the craftsmanship that played such a key role at the Bauhaus
Super tune once the flustering walls is a very simple artisanal activity
So I decided on four types of plaster white powdered marble with various grain sizes
Osmar most of the variations in granularity and the way that light strikes the walls create shadow plays
octave chuttan shmita
Just positive and the house is crying out to be photographed
Skip the spa host. There is no one of our house. It was very diverse. There was a bit of everything
It had Powell clay. It had Oskar Schlemmer Hannes Meyer who had a staunchly socialist agenda
Or who wanted nothing to do with ideology and was on a quest for pure form
People who introduced compulsory yoga classes
What's truly fascinating is of course what happens when a design movement becomes a universal concept when it becomes life?
In Japan quality design traditionally plays a big part in daily life the aesthetic
sensibility and the striving for clarity and simplicity
Underpinning Japanese culture have much in common with the visual language of Bauhaus and indeed partly inspired it
Greater Tokyo is one of the world's largest metropolitan areas housing is expensive and in short supply
Meo suna yama belongs to a young generation of Japanese architects interested in new housing concepts
you can never see inside of the houses and
also
Very close to relation isolated situation
They never invites the people and friends or even family. They don't know each other the next to each other
I think
Mia is seeking an entirely new approach
Okay, I have to change my mind on the architect like how to read the city asking
different way of living in Tokyo, so I proposed a
completely different way from
Normal one-room apartment in Tokyo
The Hayashi family's housing solution is radical by Japanese standards
The project was started by kanae Hayashi's wife Chie before the couple got married
Her house was very small studio time to
Meet her everything packed
Toilet shower kitchen bedroom. Everything was not separated
so she was a living like that as many other Japanese people do but in a
She she likes cooking and she want to relax in a sofa
To watch TV something like that, but she cannot do that. So when we find this one we have 20 places
To do that, but it's too big for her alone. So maybe we wanted to do some share house
A shared house for people who aren't necessarily all family and who are willing to redefine their relationships to one another?
Mio is converting the old house into a house for seven people a home like this would be unaffordable for a family
And
People doesn't have a lot of job so
people doesn't have like
In the way as a good life as their parent they start to do something
Meo took meticulous measurements so as to use the space as efficiently as possible
the small bedrooms on the upper floor are separated by a light and airy hallway a
bridge between the private and the shared spaces
Using the steps like we could sit down here and put the thing so the life of the
individual rooms extend here
The rooms are small while the shared areas are spacious
The multi-purpose living room is where residents and friends can come together
In a city that's becoming increasingly
Anonymous the house is a small pockets of community
Mio and her husband run a successful architecture firm
She's a big fan of German Bauhaus
Miss Fonda law is the most inspiring
architect from my tech student time and
his materiality and
Proportion and also he makes it very simple and looks very easy
But it's not and he's like a relationship with us outside in room in the room and the furniture
It's related all together and this is kind of magic
Bauhaus had close ties to Japan from the outset
This house was built in the 1930s by awaya Milwaukee who studied at the Bauhaus school?
1954 vertical Pierce visited the brand-new. Kuis our Design School in Tokyo
writing in the guestbook
Here I have found genuine Bauhaus spirit
In her work mio often refers to this weighty manual compiled by Ernst no effort
another Bauhaus graduate
The first edition of his architects data is in bimah
The current edition of this international bestseller was updated by architect johannes keister
You start planning a new project you reach for your no friend
It's currently in its 42nd editions landed published all over the world write
It's a reference book for spatial requirements in building design
And site planning from the best height for a door handle to the angle of a body leaning back in a chair
To compile these norms. No fat carried out detailed measurements of the human body in daily activities and its use of space
The professional dis mention is the powerhouse wasn't the first to measure daily life
But the radical approach of relating architecture space and spatial relationships to such measurements and the radical
extrapolation of space allocation and typology from these relationships
That was the cornerstone of Bauhaus
The book was finally published three years after the Bauhaus was shut down by the Nazis
But the efficiency of knife 'it's manual suited the totalitarian system and the Nazis co-opted it for their own purposes
After the war when its merits could once again speak for themselves it became a best-seller
Nowadays knife, 'it's manual can be found in architecture firms all over the world
What space is needed for an elevator how much space do you need in a kitchen an industrial kitchen a canteen?
What size should something be to work well in its environment?
It's just useful right because when we want to know the like example of this
certain type ology if you flip this book we can find
very basic
measurement the knowledge we have to know but we can't put everything into my our brain so
it's somehow a part of our
way
Measuring people activities things
Rationality and detail as tools for optimizing daily life and use of space
Hallmarks of the Bauhaus code that carried as far as Japan
The Bauhaus archive in Berlin designed by none other than Bauhaus founder Wouter Gore pious himself
Director Annamarie, yagi is the guardian of his legacy montval tarnished climb climb hunt. Well, it wasn't the ordinary
old-school craftsperson training
The aim was to train a new type of artist the industrial designer who could wear all hats
A generalist who could be an architect or a typographer or a painter a sculptor a photographer
an industrial designer who represented the Universal
Universal Ashland, the manifesto of the Vimal state Bauhaus was published in April 1919
Architects sculptors painters. We must all turn to the crafts together. Let us conceive and create the new building of the future
Marvelous thesis also London what they wanted to avoid was if drifting apart art on one side art for art's sake salon art
And on the other side the more downmarket applied art that is craft
Could stir this hand of our cartoonist
The Bauhaus code blurred the distinction between fine art and applied art
Then and now the starting point is always the material
That's about 25% each of feldspar and quartz and 50% Kalyan
Amazing how this dust can turn into something with so much bulk
And somehow elastic to imagine it being poured or molded it's texture is so great
Controller haptic
Berlin-based design collective new tendency is in demand. The team are graduates of the Bauhaus University in Vemma
They design industrial products for everyday use in the Bauhaus tradition functional and no frills
The firm is teaming up with one of Germany's oldest manufacturing companies the Royal porcelain factory KPM
It supplied Prussian Kings with Berlin porcelain
Why do we mainly manufacture in Germany
On the one hand because of the tradition of craftsmanship, but also because of the convenience the fact that we can visit the factories
That's very exciting for us designers. It reminds us of the craftsmanship involved in broadens our minds
hoskins under than it
The kpms porcelain is all handcrafted
Ceramicists at the Bauhaus in Vemma began designing simple modern porcelain tableware for the KPM in 1929
New tendency is marking the 100th anniversary of Bauhaus by collaborating with the KPM on a commemorative plate
As soon as you start it's already gone you can see how fast it's turning it's a question of seconds
Today the team are presenting their ideas to the kpms head designer
From the front there's a lovely play of light and shadow
The industrial and constructivist aspect is a great contrast to the delicate porcelain we found that contrast very intriguing
It reminds me of Bauhaus photography the light and shadow and negative space
We explore these elements with our designs to
New tendancy designs practical high quality products
they're not interested in mass production, but
Their kind of craftsmanship has a price one. Not everyone can afford
Business though is thriving
Complete Internet's were completely international. We get a lot of inquiries from the US and England
But also South Korea and Japan from people with a similar sense of aesthetics Lloyd in sin first Attica
In keeping with the Bauhaus spirit a good product is a fusion of skilled craftsmanship and artistic vision is
An essential part of the Bauhaus appeal is that Gropius was keen on the idea of synergy a
Vision that's become reality boundaries between creative disciplines are increasingly blurred
First I need a vacuum
The materials softens and starts to melt it melts very fast and then it gets smooth
Finished
The results are unexpected is Kasia kukuczka conducting research for the car industry
No, she's preparing for her graduation show she studies fashion design in Berlin
My basic idea was to see if I could produce a collection without actually sewing anything and instead used different production methods
So I worked a lot with lasers and glue to explore the alternatives
To see how I could make clothes production my modern
I wanted to replace man made with machine made machine made
I have a background in architecture
Perhaps that's why I tend to focus more on production methods used in industry and industrial design
The ideological Bauhaus principle is always my starting point when I begin a new project the
principle of function first
And les s
Standardization the idea that everything has an ideal height an ideal size in order to optimize its utility
So is this optimal food in mention as at US but not in Canada?
I'm really intrigued by the idea that rather than simply buying an item of clothing. You could buy CAD or computer aided design data
You get your data go to a workstation and a machine makes the clothes for you
to Cairo
This design is based on motorbike trousers made from an upholestry fabric commonly used in the car industry
But isn't there such a thing as excessive optimization?
Complete series. I wanted to apply an over complicated process of supposed optimization to clothing
It's a humorous comment on this trend it's not meant to be taken seriously
The big event the catwalk show in the evening
Last minute pitfalls are inevitable
Well the trousers fit
What do you think I can you walk on the frame? Yeah, I guess I mean it would be nice to just try your longer
Distance just then let's do this
I have to wait they're taking a photo
Is it your turn then go Cash's collection is about to make its catwalk debut
After months of hard work her graduation in her pockets, she can finally relax and enjoy the moment
Fashion design that straddles architecture and technology analog and digital a
Cross-disciplinary approach is quintessentially Bauhaus. I
Know
Folks one of the main reasons for the success of Bauhaus
Was that the movement was brave enough to bring together very different creative minds
When you take a look at who taught there, they don't seem to have anything in common
Creatively and they were very different characters
But I think that Gropius realized that only diversity could produce answers to the questions raised by the new era
He's annoyed side fintan can
this architectural icon in Spain is a perfect distillation of that collaborative spirit the
reconstructed Barcelona pavilion
Originally designed for the 1929 International Exposition by Mies van der hora the third director of the Bauhaus school
The architecture and the interior blends seamlessly
The furnishings which include the famous Barcelona chair were Co designed by Mies van der hora and Bauhaus master Lily rice
the creative scope of the Bauhaus school was unique a printing and advertising workshop opened in Dessau in
1925
The workshops head was Hobart buyer who designed the new typefaces that would help define the Bauhaus style
He was a pioneer of what we'd now call corporate design
When a man the capital of Jordan decided it needed its own branding it hired graphic designer Yan gana who
specializes in typefaces
It was a pretty daunting task
I first came to Amman in 2004 as a young student and then I came back in 2008 to develop a typeface for am on
an Arabic and Latin type design for the greater among municipality
It was my graphic design graduation project at the Bauhaus University in bimah
Man is one of the first typefaces that bridges the gap between Western and Arab fonts
Designed by a Bauhaus graduate Dr. - of huge cotton shirts
Yeah these days you'll see a Monde typeface on every street sign on public transport on public websites
and official printed material
I was very fortunate to be able to help define the urban landscape
the visual identity of this city
- I don't speak just - that
The middle-eastern city is also home to some intriguing modernist architecture albeit a little hidden away and more often than not
somewhat weathered
Whereas the Amman font on this cultural center is impossible to overlook
Why miss that's the sword for me Linda thought I was happy to see it in such a prominent position even the city was
rebranding itself
But the result is a disaster
Pains my type designer Sol. He wasn't supposed to be like this
It's the equivalent of taking a painting or a photo and then stretching it. It's really distorted. That's how they - what's out?
Not everyone was thrilled to see a foreigner coming along and getting this job
In the Arab world the main hubs of typeface design or Beirut in Cairo
Amman is a very young city. It's only a hundred years old. The field just doesn't exist here
Anyway designing the font was my own idea. He's a superstar
To me this is a lovely use of Amman type in Arabic and Latin script in bold
He's acting on condition about the finished item the rough edges I built into the design were inspired by a certain atmosphere in the city
It has a kind of rawness lack of polish that I wanted the font to express
Lots of people here do apparently agree that the font captures the mood of their city
The Bauhaus code a philosophy developed at a small German art school and adopted across the world
manual for structuring daily life based on principles of architecture and design
an interdisciplinary school with radical new teaching methods that fostered freedom and
Experimentation a school that pioneered the fusion of fine arts and crafts
After years of extraordinary creativity the Bauhaus had moved to Berlin and was forced to close down under pressure from the Nazis
One side. I owned eyes across
1933 was the end of the road the Bauhaus was founded in vemma as a state subsidized school
That's why it was called the vimar State Bauhaus
Dessau it was a municipal institution and in Berlin it was a private institution
Financed primarily out of Mies van der Rohe is own pocket
Einen bank until emergency order, although forced to close its breakup helped it evolve into a global movement
Thus by us via phone and finanza internet phone from the outset. The Bauhaus was very international
Thanks to its international connections
It wasn't all that hard for the BAU Hauser's to disperse around the world after the schools closure of Italian
The Bauhaus movement also left its mark in tel-aviv
Between 1920 and 1940 some 4,000 buildings built in the modern style were erected in the city centre
In 2003 the white city was made a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites
The white city was largely the work of architects who had studied with vitac or pious Mies van der hora and other European architects
In the 1930s many Jews fled growing anti-semitism in Europe and emigrated to Palestine there
They contributed to the making of a new society
These days many of the buildings have fallen into disrepair. The paint is peeling and the facades crumbling
However, the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage status has helped raise awareness of these buildings historic value
The max Liebling house built in
1936 is undergoing an extensive restoration and will soon be opening as a heritage center
Israeli German architect Sharon Gallinger on is program director of the white city center. She's well aware
What a treasure it is
Let's see what original features from Germany we have here look at this
This is a handle when we dismantled the door handles and cleaned them up
We saw that they had stamps from the company WH AG
You can just about see it
We did some research and found out that they really were made by the company that manufactured the Gropius handles. So for the Bauhaus
The company was called LOI. There are all sorts of treasures like that here
This is subsidies, it's interesting in architecture how many German words Hebrew uses?
We say cunt for canta or edge
Suckle for soccerbase Krotz puts and Stein puts scratch cut stone plaster
We say SH list the German word for plane
It's funny listening to Jewish and Arab construction workers on the building site. They're like, hey Moshe Krotz puts
It goes to show how much expertise was brought here in the 1930s
Not just materials but skills
Iran is meeting up with shoe Levite. Wish who gives tours of the White City
She's an expert on the architects who gave Tel Aviv its distinctive look
Ochio Susan copious opinion with pestle and could you see?
That the building is a statue that people walk in the answer may our mouths aesthetical office Hoover, okay
lots of a thing and yes
If they are not so important but we have to fix the social behavior of the after copulation
Hannes Meyer
Gropius's successor fervently believed in design for the people what became of that goal is Bauhaus
Design as functional as it set out to be is Bauhaus nowadays, just a brand
Find out in the second episode of our series Bauhaus world the effect
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