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Student hostel, stair interior, showing tripartition of the ceiling colors in black and red with white walls

Title:

Bauhaus Buildings

Alternate Title:

Staatliches Bauhaus

View:

Student hostel, stair interior, showing tripartition of the ceiling colors in black and red with white walls

Creators:

Walter Gropius (American architect, 1883-1969)

Date:

1925-1926 (creation)

Style/Period:

Bauhaus; Modernist; Twentieth century

Location:

site: Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Location Note:

Gropiusallee 38

GPS:

+51.839360+12.227340

Culture:

German

Materials:

concrete; steel; glass

Work Types:

building divisions; rooms and spaces; classrooms; building divisions; rooms and spaces; studios (work spaces); buildings; dwellings; dormitories (buildings); buildings; institutional buildings; schools (buildings)

Description:

In 1925 the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau, occupying temporary accommodation while the new school and staff housing were being built to designs by Gropius. The Bauhaus buildings (1925-1926) are his major works; his audacious use of glass as hanging, transparent planes, the clear spatial and functional organization of the whole and overall synthesis of architecture, interior design, furniture and equipment made these buildings a paradigm of the Modern Movement. They were not wholly a construction of machine-made parts, but they were totally expressive of the machine aesthetic--an appropriate symbol of the Bauhaus commitment to a unique synthesis of art and industry and of itself, as both educational institution and social microcosm. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)

Classification:

Architecture and City Planning

Technique:

construction (assembling)

Image Rights:

Vendor ID:

1A1-GW-BB-D24

MDID Identifier:

48032

Archivision Set:

Archivision Addition Module Six

Collection:

Archivision Module 6

Collection:

Front Page Content

Record created:

June 7, 2018

Last modified:

Nov. 1, 2018

Collection Memberships

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