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The Bauhaus
was a very influential German school of art and
design. Underlying the Bauhaus aesthetic was a fervent
utopianism, based upon ideals of simplified forms and
unadorned functionalism, and a belief that the machine
economy could deliver elegantly designed items for the
masses, using techniques and materials employed
especially in industrial fabrication and manufacture steel,
concrete, chrome, glass, etc. All students took a preliminary
course before moving on to specialist workshops, including
carpentry, weaving, pottery, stagecraft, graphic arts,
and graphic design.
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969)
was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus
School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and
Le Corbusier, were widely regarded as one of the pioneering
masters of modern architecture.The Bauhaus style, also
known as the International Style, was marked by the absence
of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of
an object or a building and its design.
