Reflections: Bauhaus and International Style (one page/ easy) Academic Help

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Overview of Assignment Requirements

The Bauhaus and International Style has had a lasting influence on typography, products and architecture. After reading and viewing this week’s materials, and considering what characteristics make up Bauhaus and International Style, I would like you to select an object that you have seen that was influenced by these styles–something contemporary (created/made between the years 2000-today). You may not select an object which is an exact reproduction from the Bauhaus/International time period.

What needs to be included in the submission?

Include an image, citation, and a one page about why the object you selected would be categorized as either Bauhaus or International style. What specific characteristics make it Bauhaus or International style?

1. Submit to the Plagiarism Check Tool located in the module area to receive a originality score before submitting to TurnItIn.
2. Make any necessary revisions.

What is Bauhaus?

The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 in the city of Weimar by German architect Walter Gropius. Its core objective was a radical concept: to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of all the arts. Gropius explained this vision for a union of art and design in the Proclamation of the Bauhaus (1919), which described a utopian craft guild combining architecture, sculpture, and painting into a single creative expression. Gropius developed a craft-based curriculum that would turn out artisans and designers capable of creating useful and beautiful objects appropriate to this new system of living.

The Bauhaus combined elements of both fine arts and design education. The curriculum commenced with a preliminary course that immersed the students, who came from a diverse range of social and educational backgrounds, in the study of materials, color theory, and formal relationships in preparation for more specialized studies. Following their immersion in Bauhaus theory, students entered specialized workshops, which included metalworking, cabinetmaking, weaving, pottery, typography, and wall painting.

The increasingly unstable political situation in Germany, combined with the perilous financial condition of the Bauhaus, caused the school to relocate to Berlin in 1930, where it operated on a reduced scale. The Bauhaus was closed in 1933. During the turbulent and often dangerous years of World War II, many of the key figures of the Bauhaus emigrated to the United States, where their work and their teaching philosophies influenced generations of young architects and designers.

Griffith Winton, Alexandra. The Bauhaus, 1919–1933 (Links to an external site.) in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bauh/hd_bauh.htm. Accessed 12 June 2017.

What is International Style?

In architecture, the term International Style describes a type of design that developed mainly in Germany, Holland and France, during the 1920s, before spreading to America in the 1930s, where it became the dominant tendency in American architecture during the middle decades of the 20th century. Although it never became fashionable for single-family residential buildings in the United States, the International Style was especially suited to skyscraper architecture, where its sleek modern look, absence of decoration and use of steel and glass, became synonymous with corporate modernism during the period 1955-70. It also became the dominant style of 20th century architecture for institutional and commercial buildings, and even superseded the traditional historical styles for schools and churches.

The International Style emerged largely as a result of four factors that confronted architects at the beginning of the 20th century

1. Increasing dissatisfaction with building designs that incorporated a mixture of decorative features from different architectural periods, especially where the resulting design bore little or no relation to the function of the building
2. The need to build large numbers of commercial and civic buildings that served a rapidly industrializing society
3. The successful development of new construction techniques involving the use of steel, reinforced concrete, and glass
4. A strong desire to create a modern style of architecture for modern man

International Style in Encyclopedia of Art and Design (Links to an external site.). visual-arts-cork.com, www.visual-arts-cork.com/architecture/international-style.htm. Accessed 12 June 2017