{"product_id":"bauhaus-book-taschen","title":"Bauhaus Book: Modern Design, Architecture \u0026 Art Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eFourteen years. That is all the \u003cstrong\u003eBauhaus\u003c\/strong\u003e got before the Nazis shut it down, and it was enough to change how the modern world looks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis TASCHEN introduction tells the story of the \u003cstrong\u003eBauhaus art school\u003c\/strong\u003e, which stands as \u003cstrong\u003eone of the defining movements of modern history\u003c\/strong\u003e. It covers the school's commitment to \u003cstrong\u003ecreative expression\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ecutting-edge ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the \u003cstrong\u003ecombination of fine art and technology\u003c\/strong\u003e in service of a utopian future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat combination is the whole point. The Bauhaus refused to keep painting, craft, architecture, and industry in separate rooms. Students learned from artists and craftspeople side by side, worked with materials directly, and were pushed toward objects that could be made well and made for many. The results still surround us: tubular steel chairs, clean lamps and metalwork, flat roofs and glass walls, color theory taught as a discipline, and typography stripped back to what it needs to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe school's history is short and turbulent. It moved more than once and worked under constant political pressure before it was closed. Its people scattered across Europe and the United States, and its ideas traveled with them into architecture offices, design schools, and factories, which is part of why the influence feels so universal now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who works in design, the Bauhaus is less a style than a set of questions. What is this object for? What is the honest way to make it? How do art and technology work together instead of against each other? Those questions are as useful in a branding studio or an edit suite as they were in a workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vandal.la\/collections\/signals\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSignals\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Bauhaus is foundational reading: the source code behind a huge share of modern design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Bauhaus\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bauhaus, officially the Staatliches Bauhaus (German for building house), was an art school founded by the architect Walter Gropius in Weimar on April 1, 1919. It set out to bring fine art and craft together, and increasingly to unite artistic vision with function and mass production, in pursuit of a total work of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe school had three homes and three architect-directors. It ran in Weimar from 1919 to 1925 under Gropius, then moved to Dessau, where the landmark Bauhaus building he designed opened in 1926. Hannes Meyer led the school from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930. After the Nazi party took over the regional government, the Dessau campus closed in 1932; Mies reopened it in a derelict factory in Berlin, and it closed for good in 1933 under pressure from the Nazi regime. Teachers included Johannes Itten, who taught the preliminary course, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy and the weaver Gunta Stölzl. Landmarks include the Haus am Horn (1923), the Dessau building (1926) and Marcel Breuer's B3 chair (1925–1926), later known as the Wassily chair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts people carried the ideas abroad: Gropius taught at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and Mies led the architecture school at Chicago's Armour Institute. Bauhaus sites in Germany joined the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996, and Tel Aviv's White City holds the world's highest concentration of Bauhaus architecture. Graphic design, typography, furniture and architecture still run on Bauhaus thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy Bauhaus still matters\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBauhaus\u003c\/strong\u003e still matters because it set the template for how art, design, and technology can work together. Its ideas about form, function, materials, and education shaped architecture, furniture, graphic design, and design teaching worldwide. When people say something looks modern, they are very often describing the Bauhaus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho this book is for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor designers, architects, art directors, typographers, and design students. For the RIOT and vandal_ crowd who want to understand where modern visual language came from, and for anyone looking for a clear, illustrated introduction to the school and its ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bauhaus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSubject:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Bauhaus art school\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e TASCHEN\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFocus:\u003c\/strong\u003e The school's commitment to creative expression, cutting-edge ideas, and the combination of fine art and technology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCategory:\u003c\/strong\u003e Architecture and design, print book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFAQ\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is this Bauhaus book about?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt introduces the Bauhaus art school, its commitment to creative expression and cutting-edge ideas, and its combination of fine art and technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs it a good introduction for beginners?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYes. 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