Word: bauhaus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steps off her pedestal to embrace everyman, she becomes a daily social concern. When the problems of art and design are looked at as the problems of everyman, they become the problems of family, government, education, and all social institutions. The late Walter Gropius, founder and head of the Bauhaus (1919-33)--the famous German design school--put art in such a position: art became intimate with the present, and took up the humanist torch to serve man and society. After fleeing from Nazi Germany, Gropius furthered this ideal as Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Harvard from...
...painter-teacher Oskar Schlemmer hints at the German school's uniqueness: "The actual structure of the Bauhaus finds expression in its leader and is not restricted to any dogma, with an awareness of all that is now and topical in the world and with good motives for assimilating it...Hence the battle of minds, in the open or in secret, as perhaps nowhere else, a constant unrest, compelling the individual almost daily to take a stand on profound problems...
...thus through its progressive ideas in teaching, that the Bauhaus leaves its greatest mark. It trained not only the artist but also the craftsman, engineer, industrial designer, and architect. Through a preliminary design course, and the program of basic workshops the Bauhaus led its students to work together in solving practical problems...
...building." These first six months were then followed by one workshop of the student's own choice: anything from pottery to stage-design and photography. Set up in the Dewey tradition of learning-by-doing, a then radical idea of education, these workshops served as the core of the Bauhaus structure. The students familiarized themselves with their materials and with production processes, picking up practical experience uncommon for architecture students...
...during the past five years by constant feuding between faculty, students and administrators. There was a time in the mid-1950s when the Design School was regarded as the top school of design and urban planning in the country. In that era--when Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, brought his genius to the GSD first as dean and later as professor emeritus--its attraction both to students and faculty was unparalleled. No more, Today, the GSD is flatly a second-rate school of design. MIT, Berkeley and perhaps one or two others, have become the leaders in planning...