Word: bauhausization
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...exhibit of the methods and influence of the Bauhaus, world-famous school of design founded by Walter Gropius, now chairman of the Department of Architecture, is on public view in Robinson Hall...
Included are many products of the Bauhaus workshops, the first tubular chairs, modern lighting fixtures, typographical designs, porcelain and metal tableware, fabrics and wall papers, many of which have entered mass production and become commonplace...
Under the Bauhaus program a student spent three years in the workshops in practical training, at the same time receiving formal courses in design and color...
They were designed by famed Bauhaus-founder Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. They will stand on stilts over a lake (see cut), will be modernist in style. Besides classrooms, a library, laboratories, shops, offices, the buildings will include two-room apartments for teachers, rooms for 120 students. Each student will have a private study but share a bedroom. Most unusual aspect of the plans is the buildings' compactness, for compact community life...
Attempts to treat the diversity of contemporary arts had been made before at the Bauhaus in Germany, but they were fancy business in America in 1929. No zealot, Director Barr concentrated on paintings, the main interest of such trustees as Samuel A. Lewisohn and Stephen C. Clark, and bided his time. He got a secretary and five small exhibition rooms in a Fifth Avenue office building. The trustees met for the first time in October, armed with pledges for $200,000. In November the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors with an exhibition of Lillie Bliss's fine...