Word: bauhausization
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...Noted Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius founded. The Architects' Collaborative, the firm that has designed Copley Place and many other projects. At the time of the founding, Gropius was serving as dean of the Graduate School of Design. Because of his affiliation with the University, he wanted to stay in Cambridge, says Elizabeth M. Pietrzak, a marketing assistant with the company...
...Design, he free-lanced as a furniture maker before opening a home-furnishings store, called Habitat, in London in 1964. From its rows of white crockery to assemble-it-yourself pine beds and tables, Habitat offered products designed in the modernist tradition of the '30s, a kind of Bauhaus for our house: less is more, natural is better, simple is best...
Some of Vanderbyl's best work is found in a series of posters depicting postmodern architectural whimsies. He is wont to portray almost any three- dimensional object in gaily colored axonometric view, and the effect is a sort of jaunty rigor, Bauhaus on holiday. Another of Vanderbyl's fun-with- geometry motifs is a flurry of polychrome squiggles tossed onto a severe black or white field. In catalogs for Hickory Business Furniture, he has roughly scribbled in color over precise black-and-white photographs of chairs -- once again, antagonistic design impulses in playful coexistence...
...When Bauhaus broke up in 1983, Peter Murphy went solo and thereby passed up the chart hit that his old band mates, now called Love and Rockets, currently enjoy...
...love our audience," he echoes. This declaration closes one of Bauhaus' better songs, "Spirits," which was almost as good at the Murphy concert as on the Bauhaus record. On vinyl, "We love our audience" night or might not be the real McCoy. But when it's emphasized with stony eyes and a bony accusing finger, the phrase's contemptuous undertones hit full force. Murphy leaves us with the feeling that maybe he's taking his usual Vincent Price routine...