Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Bauhaus Buildings

Preferred Title: 
Bauhaus Buildings
Alternate Title: 
Staatliches Bauhaus
Image View: 
View looking north along the east elevation of the Workshop wing (left), showing south entry with vertical circulation above which defines where the office wing (right) meets the workshop
Creator: 
Walter Gropius (American architect, 1883-1969)
Location: 
site: Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Location Note: 
Gropiusallee 38
GPS: 
+51.839360+12.227340
Date: 
1925-1926 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
German
Style Period: 
Bauhaus; Modernist; Modern; Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
school (building)
Work Type 2: 
classroom
Work Type 3: 
studio (work space)
Classification: 
architecture
Material: 
concrete; steel; glass
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Subjects: 
architecture; decorative arts; Education; art education
Description: 
In 1925 the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau, occupying temporary accommodation while the new school and staff housing were being built to designs by Gropius. The Bauhaus buildings (1925-1926) are his major works; his audacious use of glass as hanging, transparent planes, the clear spatial and functional organization of the whole and overall synthesis of architecture, interior design, furniture and equipment made these buildings a paradigm of the Modern Movement. They were not wholly a construction of machine-made parts, but they were totally expressive of the machine aesthetic--an appropriate symbol of the Bauhaus commitment to a unique synthesis of art and industry and of itself, as both educational institution and social microcosm. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Six
Identifier: 
1A1-GW-BB-B16
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.