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...Beaus v. Beaux...
...once, but twice! ''Beaus." My Webster's says "beaux." Which...
...first impressive rival to the Beaux-Arts school appeared in Germany after the War when Walter Gropius looked around him at a mechanized, technically refined civilization and persuaded the city fathers of Weimar that artistry would have to be combined with it, not sugared over it. By the time his Staatliche Bauhaus Weimar moved to Dessau in 1925, its faculty and students were able to collaborate on a set of workshops and dormitories which have become classics of intelligent architecture. The city of Dessau helped support the school. Its students were given a thorough ground-breaking course in the possibilities...
...have that best serves the purpose, using the best tools available," is not studied in schools of architecture so much as is the record of the needs, materials and tools of architecture in the past. This is the eclectic tradition fostered for years by the great Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Many architects consider this tradition inadequate because, while not necessarily inimical to modern developments it is "paper architecture" which fails to get at the root of modern building needs...
Last month Moholy-Nagy's prospectus was published and he drew a highly interested-and remarkably large-audience of 750 architects, designers, socialites and students at a preliminary lecture in which he affirmed the complete opposition of his school to Beaux-Arts principles. The course at the New Bauhaus will start with a year of preparatory training similar to that at the old Bauhaus but taking in new plastics and new advances in scientific knowledge. After that there will be three years of technical and practical work in any one of six divisions: 1) wood, metal, plastics; 2) textiles...