The New Architecture and The Bauhaus
by Walter Gropius
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Author: Walter GropiusTranslator: P. Morton Shand
Introduction: Frank Pick
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1965-03-15
ISBN: 0262570068
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: The MIT Press
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Book Review: What is the competence of the designer after all?
Summary: 5 Stars
What is design? This question is answered in tens of ways today, pointing [maybe] to a paradigm shift in the profession. In this scenarium, I rather stick to the definition that broght the term into life, when the idea captivated the world. Gropius view is still the strongest we have, is the one that created this profession.
I think the profession took many paths after the dissolution of the Bauhaus and lots of them are misunderstandings that live the designer in a bad position. Gropius and the Bauhaus professors begun with a quest of understanding what in art can be objective knowledge and they did a lot of work in this direction, but by reading the book you'll see that that's just one of the positions that build the importance of the bauhaus. The "designer knowledge" is something very delicate (that Gropius understood very well) and has been interpreted in bilions of ways by schools and institutes of today. Yes, Gopius and the Bauhaus was trying to "scientifisize" design, but with the solid knowledge that art cannot be taught, that creativity comes from personality and so on. The complete project of the Bauhaus was the beauty of it.
To see how this idea of a professional called product designer gathering industrial, artistic and crafts skills was conceived is the triumph that makes this book [to me] the ultimate guide!
Summary of The New Architecture and The Bauhaus
One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry and considers their possible, practical solution. Gropius traces the rise of the New Architecture and the work of the now famous Bauhaus and, with splendid clarity, calls for a new artist and architect educated to new materials and techniques and directly confronting the requirements of the age.
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