Bauhaus
Me and my group (HTML) decided to do our presentation on the Bauhaus and the New Typography. Below in the document are all of the notes and research points that i had looked at throughout the time that i spent on this project.
Notes:
Around 10 minute presentation
5 people in group (roughly 2 minutes per person)
Roles
Research (Not in own words but from articles)
School- “The Bauhaus was arguably the single most influential modernist art school of the 20th century. Its approach to teaching, and to the relationship between art, society, and technology, had a major impact both in Europe and in the United States long after its closure under Nazi pressure in 1933.”
“Much of what we know and recognise as modern design and architecture had its start at a small school in Germany that only existed for 14 years - The Bauhaus. This famous school of design started the Bauhaus Movement, which informed the entire Modernist movement worldwide.”
From the beginning, it was clear that Bauhaus stood for creating beauty through purposeful utilitarian design, uncompromised by mass production. It saw mass production as something that could still incorporate craft. It was about simplicity and usefulness. It avoided the trappings of decoration and it felt that any media could be an interface for the Bauhaus way of thinking.
its development was stunted by the rise of the Nazi party, which pressurised the school into stopping teaching in 1933, having viewed it as a hotbed for communist intellectualism, despite the school claiming to be politically agnostic for the entirety of its existence. The old adage that you can’t kill an idea rang true though. Bauhaus would prove itself to be alive and well in decades to come when its émigrés took its teachings to the rest of the world*.*
Potential photos for slides
