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ABC's of the Bauhaus:: The Bauhaus and Design Theory by Ellen Lupton, Princeton Architectural Press

ABC's of the Bauhaus:: The Bauhaus and Design Theory Ellen Lupton, Princeton Architectural Press ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 64
ISBN: 9781878271426
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

March 26, 2009 – 9:58 pm; Posted in Art Theory, Introductory. For this second issue it is Bauhaus time, which literally means “house of construction”. This school in Weimar, Germany was famous for the approach to design that it published & taught. Although not as picturesque (by a long shot) as Weimar, this is where the Bauhaus really flourished and the architectural innovations and design theories were executed as real building projects. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects” personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue. The ABCs of [circle, square, triangle]: The Bauhaus and Design Theory. The Persuasive Graphic | Visual.ly Blog. In this book, internationally renowned scholars and designers explore how the avant-garde ambitions of the 1920-30s Bauhaus to re-align new technology Keywords » Informatics - design theory - human-computer interaction. In case you don't remember from your Art History class, here is the essence of the Bauhaus manifesto: that design should incorporate the arts of painting, architecture, theatre, photography and typography and that form and function can be unified in the design of everyday objects built on a strong geometric foundation, easily mass-produced. Technical difficulties were accentuated by the general economic decline that followed the war. The next jarring experience came when I bought a book (itself inexpensive) on the bauhaus and design theory edited and largely written by a couple of American design academics, Ellen Upton and J Abbot Miller. An author of numerous books and articles on design, she is a public-minded critic, frequent lecturer, and AIGA Gold Medalist. The Bauhaus flourished in Germany He introduced the concepts of geometric forms and color theory. The Bauhaus workshops were really laboratories for working out practical new designs for present-day articles and improving models for mass-production. Masters of the Persuasive Graphic The Bauhaus school of art and architecture in early 20th century Germany was the birthplace of a revolution in modern design.