The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics / / Éva Forgács.
Forgacs examines the development of the Bauhaus school of architecture and applied design by focusing on the idea of the Bauhaus, rather than on its artefacts. What gave this idea its extraordinary powers of survival? Founded in 1919, with the architect Walter Gropius as its first director, the Bauh...
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Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [1995] ©1995 |
Year of Publication: | 1995 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Beauty of Progress
- 2. Time out of Joint
- 3. 'We Shall Draw Grand Designs ...'
- 4. First Steps
- 5. Weimar
- 6. Breathing Exercises
- 7. Time
- 8. New Faces
- 9. lf We lntend to Survive
- 10. The New Unity
- 11 . Man at the Control Panel
- 12. The Part Versus the Whole
- 13. Why did Gropius Leave?
- 14. Hannes Meyer
- 15. Parallel Fates? Weimar, Dessau and Moscow
- 16. Endgame
- Epilogue: Liberalism's Utopia
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index