ARCH BAUHAUS - BA

Publisher: TASCHEN GMBH

Release Date: July 2015

English language

Dimensions: 210 x 295 x 15 mm

Hard cover

Pages: 96

During a fleeting fourteen-year period between two world wars, the German Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school was a pioneer in the fusion of art, crafts and technology applied to painting, sculpture, design, architecture, cinema, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater and artistic installation.

The Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius (1883-1969) as a passionate community and as a collective concerned with social issues, and included Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, Marianne Brandt and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among its members. In its three consecutive locations, Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the school has witnessed a charismatic and creative exchange between teachers and students of diverse artistic styles and preferences, but united in their idealism and interest in a "total" work of art that encompasses different practices. and average.

This book is a tribute to the boldness and innovation of the Bauhaus movement, a pioneer in the development of modern art and a paradigm of art education, in which total freedom of creative expression and avant-garde ideas gave rise to beautiful and practical creations.

about the series

Each book in the TASCHEN Basic Architecture series includes:

introductory essays that explore the architect's background, life and work;

the most important works in chronological order;

information about the clients, the architectural requirements and the problems and solutions that arose during the execution of the projects;

a list of selected works and a map with the location of the most known and outstanding buildings;

Approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings and floor plans.