Word: bauhausization
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PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BAUHAUS movement are now on display at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. The exhibit reveals the energy of the German Bauhaus group which attempted to define 20th century art by combining the aesthetic ideal with the technical and the practical...
...emotional and classic artistic poises--but rather as a technical tool which could be used to communicate and to explore visual reality. The photographs in the exhibit, created by professionals, teachers and students, reveals the range and versatility of the medium. One of the leaders of photography in the Bauhaus, Moholy-Nagy, created a number of "photograms." Photograms are not traditional photographs, but rather collections of objects exposed on photographic paper. The exhibit runs through November...
...arrival of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and undisputed holder of the "Mr. Modernism" title, reinvigorated the department, remembers Len Currie (GSD '38). Though "Harvard has always been tops" in the field, Currie says, "in '36 architecture was at a low ebb." Squabbles in the faculty, the departure of the old dean of architecture, and the sad state of American design during the Depression had shaken the school's confidence. Gropius's arrival boosted morale, and Harvard soon rocketed to the to the forefront of international design...
...aura of Harvard's architecture department silenced many doubters of these bare and square designs. The GSD was the ideal platform for the polemically inclined Gropius to promote the ideals of the Bauhaus. As it has done in many other fields, Harvard provided the official stamp of approval that helped make a revolutionary doctrine palatable to conservative American tastes...
...fame, from 1960 onward, it seemed that every mayor, museum director and chairman of the board in the Western world had simultaneously agreed that a Moore work was the only possible solution to the problem of how to relieve the hardness and social tension of new post-Bauhaus buildings with an organic metaphor, how to dress up a civic space without commemorating anything in particular. At the same time, people in the street found that his work spoke to them in a way that some dull tangle of official I beams could...