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Bauhaus (1919 - 1933) (Movement (“Art should once again serve a social…
Bauhaus (1919 - 1933)
Characteristics:
Sleek, modern, geometric, and functionalist
experimenting with steel and brass with new technology
Movement
“Art should once again serve a social role, and there should no longer be division between the crafts-based disciplines”
Women still faced bias; encouraged to do weaving rather than male-dominant mediums -- women can only handle 2D while men can do 3D
fine arts' being rethought as the 'visual arts', and art considered less as an adjunct of the humanities, like literature or history, and more as a kind of research science.
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Sculptures, paintings, typography, furnitures, architectures
stressed on intellectual and theoretical pursuits, and linked these to an emphasis on practical skills, crafts and techniques
abandoned much of the ethos of the old academic tradition of fine art education
focused on pluralistic educational concept on creative methods and individual development
Key artist: Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee and Johannes Itten, architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and designer Marcel Breuer.
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Furniture Design
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Longevity
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Protection is needed from the element — paint, oil, protective coating
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Joints
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BUTT JOINT: Attaching edge to edge with each other, easy but also the weakest without reinforcement
BISCUIT JOINT: Reinforced butt joint, uses a wooden piece to join the two wood pieces together.
Sustainable Interiors
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Sustainable interiors
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ADAPTIVE REUSE: process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designer for
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