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16. sex make. raring to go. if there is any erotic credits remember you have to find it between the lines. the literature. the streets. of our house with an international cosmopolitan school they wanted a completely new world of design they were breaking with the generation of their parents age i'm going to they wanted to throw out useless they wanted new life styles they wanted to be different.
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this year at bal house one of the world's most influential art and design schools turns a 100 and the city is being celebrated in x. style. but how much do we really know about this famous movement and how much is made we went to find out. design classics which are simple and functional designed by a small art school which revolutionized the industry 100 years ago house dispensed of unnecessary fruits with its radical vision. to copious want to rethink architecture in the arts with artists such as best we can do. play on finding.
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he founded the state house in weimar in 1919. their arts college soon became an avant garde. in their workshops they experimented with materials and formed creating design which was unprecedented in its clarity and functionality. but it didn't appeal to everyone for the 1st show home in weimar was seen as a provocation and met with heavy criticism a bunch of free spirited individuals who held nothing sacred not color materials nor perception. breaking conventions they explored new lifestyles which were rather too wild for vinyl by 925 it was all over they were too adventurous for their home city. they ventured on to an industrial city that welcomed the bell house with open arms and funded a completely new building for their school. the master houses were built nearby white cubic villas for the professors designed in a quick
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a doll house artists with furniture from their own workshops. director of on to go p.s. shake the city with a bow house movement the church and settlement offered light space and a garden for everyone is an antidote to the cramped gloomy residential blocks of the industrial cities every last detail was designed with precision and the 314 terraced houses were built cheaply and quickly. also designed by gropius was the employment office it was one of the 1st of its kind with bright glass corridors. the same ascetic was used here for different purposes with coffee goes riverside cafe on the album. from 1928 its new director harness maya made the bow house even more political and radical his houses were an attempt to make social classes based on need and not luxury. funding ended when the nazis came to power in the bow house close in 1930 to one last privately funded attempt came
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from its fund a hole in the berlin but it failed in 1933 the boss had shut down. is bound house history have its ideas run their course hardly in these times of up people people are rediscovering its visionary potential how was bow house continuing to inspire today we visit via where it began. constantine bya is used to having breakfast in his own gallery it's just like one big family the found as an artist of the gallery i can hire all graduates of the legendary bauhaus university their contribution to the 100th anniversary year is called contemporary bauhaus but simply because their fly swatters. which can also applaud for the balls to us all of.
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this private gallery is the official showcase of the bauhaus university and the artists don't see bauhaus as a brand but an attitude towards the weald a common theme in there is the destruction of the environment and the loss of nature constantine by as installation focuses on this theme to artificial palm trees and a shell which doesn't contain the sound of the sea rather the babble of advertising slogans these works ask questions of society in keeping with the principles of our house. how sustainable should our society be how do we handle digitalisation these are the questions we analyze in our exhibition the challenges of the next 100 years. thinking big and acting globally the gallery i can home has become an international institution foundations the grattan institute and artists from china are all part of the worldwide network of the gallery owner and his business partner
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bianca focused creating synergies was the principle of the bauhaus university right from the start. because i'm media artist which i am you could use the architecture workshops just as well as the product design or workshops. or this brings in an interdisciplinary aspect along with the sense of community which was characteristic of weimar. by. such a sense of community hasn't always been a given in 1925 the buy a house had to leave and was regarded as a disgrace environment just like the gal forum is today a monumental nazi building right next to it a mighty cube has been erected in the new battle house museum. bright and minimalist an architectural statement its purpose is not to conserve the bow house tradition but rather to act as a forum for discussion. aesthetic and social questions are opened up again viewed
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through the mirror of history. and there are some incredible things to see from playful structures and expressionist sketches to little wooden houses with so-called synergy for the people functional but far removed from what is supposed to be found house style by man has long been a place of experimentation. assume self said that before tackling the design of objects you basically have to put people in new clothing particularly during that period in the 19th ten's and. twenty's there was a lot of talk about the new human but everybody meant something different by about haas at self also reflected many different concepts and images of the human dimension of conflict here it was a time of up evil on the one hand the human body was liberated but on the other the human was in slave to the rhythm of the machine technical progress evoked both nightmares and fascination no one could escape it. in the boathouse stage.
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transformed dunces into mechanical figures the triadic ballet is famous for its cost james. painting and stage performance intertwine. weimar always had this space to experiment to risk new things i think that's one thing that still resonates today at the bell house university which also works very experimentally of course it also works internationally but it is very experimental movement a change of venue the getting i can hi i'm also has agreement chamberlin the exhibition is called from the lamp to the studio media artist him book is running a workshop he teaches design technology at the bauhaus university experiments with electronics which he also uses for his own work. in the exhibition he shows
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a subversive program which allows people to pixelate their face using a special batch. he calls it the wishing machine. it's all about privacy for all those smartphone pictures of me or other people that turn up on facebook and they're automatically tagged with face recognition and then my name is a common denominator if i just want to be myself for an evening without a bizarre photo of me turning up and then this will be a solution because for the from the off talked the distillers on. is also an inventor. he designs new surfaces for control devices at the moment he's testing materials with and chambers to create all kinds of inflatable shapes just having. i showed this to a group of textile engineers and they merely said great this is just what we need. this could also be the hood for an inflatable car. but suddenly during the
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production process points of reference appear that we didn't even think of at the beginning here from beginning. to get me i can hi i'm provide space to research new technologies in an artistic way think laterally and ask questions this is where the bauhaus live song. about house created a number of modernist pioneers among them the 3 powerhouse direct is gropius hannah smile and nice fun to roll her butt was the powerhouse just a boys' club that's a myth there were also some outstanding women. but what these women left out was a kind of professional representation to find out standards for taped. off female artists consciously being forgotten is something that can also be observed in painting sculpture in literature and in many many other areas
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a number. of followers of these women were rediscovered when a political and social discourse began about women's role in society. but who were these modern a super women. 3 who left their mark on about housework writer editor and powerhouse 1st lady he's a global. furniture designer and paul house master levi's. and textile artist all of us. like many female pupils at the ball house she had to learn weaving though she wanted to study painting albus began studying at the powerhouse in 1922 though she never intended to become a textile artist she was a natural talent she was inspired by us of all of us her teacher and later her husband and the paintings of coldplay. her work is now being rediscovered in europe. and death and they really are one of
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a kind pieces you can instantly tell that here on the album has created something extremely special. that's coupled with an incredibly interesting dialogue between the material and it is not at all about being fashionable what more do. all of us work seamlessly interweave elements of industrial production handiwork and art in 1930 august became the 1st female to graduate from the bell house school for her final project she developed a fabric for the trade union school and banal today a ball house landmark her material was used to cover walls of the school auditorium plain and simple yet revolutionary it reflected light absorbed sound and was easy to clean. on the eye with any of us developed his take down after much consideration and research she used a material that had only been on the market for a few years cellophane today we know it from food packaging.
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after the nazis seized power in 1933 being jewish she and her husband fled to the us there she belonged to the artistic god and created experimented with talk and wrote about the art of weaving today her patterns and designs are enjoying a renaissance only out of us is finally getting the recognition she deserves like other forgotten dollhouse artist peter than many of them will recognize during that time and quickly ends the respect of their colleagues both male and. female and a lot of people also fell into obscurity during the years of political dictatorship and persecution here in germany that were here in. these forgotten vile house women are now being celebrated in new books like easy. the wife of the us contributed to the interior design at the director's house and she was a new kind of woman the perfect heroine for
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a novel. the noise these women lived in a new era they could vote and be elected they could do jobs traditionally done by men there was a feeling of freedom that they could do anything smoothly he could miss. these young wild free spirited and strong pioneers dared to take on a new role. the daughter of an upper class family becoming a working woman unheard of back that is a goal to be a structured in a new lifestyle. something save for the whole self concept of women working outside the home was one that had to be learned. maybe that's what made easy as so of ennius and revolutionary. she modernized household economics to save the women of the future time which they could then devote to that professional activities. suitable. for years christiane along
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a has been conducting research on another modernist career woman league ice she was already a key figure in the art scene when she became about house master and head of the school's interior design workshop in 1932. when her partner architect miss fond of war built this house in berlin she designed the furniture. really high she also worked with him on the villa also in clay yet no trace of her work remains why has that. during my research i realized it simply couldn't. because she was female nowadays we might call any high she's superwoman hall and she was incredibly well organized communicative and very assertive even with men stuck up the fact that she's been forgotten for this can be attributed solely to me . but also to the male dominated writing of history that was looking for classic heroes who warns of. heroes like responded whore who designed the german pavilion
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for the $929.00 international exposition in barcelona together with the. fact she was the pavilions artistic director and it's doubtful whether ms fundable were designed its furniture on his own. soul who really created this design classic. and. it's an interesting question because this is an iconic piece of furniture the day bed. but there are many indications that many high created it. is interest is published under her name in 1930 tunes. and the only drawing of this day by that exists is also by her from around 1905 and it's the anyone from the pre-war period before such as earliest 1949 new york's museum of modern art devoted a solo show dani alves textile art though outside the united states she still relatively unknown. he's a copious is now
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a novel heroine but in real life she was an editor organizer and equal partner for the bell house founder. and clearly highish the few surviving documents show that milly gosh was a great designer and far ahead of her toy but starting in 1933 when the nazis came to power ice wasn't so choosy about who she worked for she wasn't the only one. when the nazis took over 933 they closed down the bow house but controversially. some leading bell houselights continued they would under hitler. to each his own i'm a cop sign at the nazi concentration camp and part. created by inmates and former boss people fund and it uses the unmistakable boss typeface despite the fact that the nazi regime denounced the school for its degenerate art and even pressured its
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leadership into closing the bar house in berlin often said in the fischel propaganda they rejected the ban has entirely it was considered to be bolshevist jewish muxes and everything the nazis deemed negative event was not an oddity this must stop but an officially that stance wasn't as clear the nazi saw the typical bile house functionality as a sign of progress and welcomed its new objectivity. and the artists how did the guard of the bauhaus respond after $933.00. to take her about bio one of the most influential boss teachers he create a graphic design on the universal typeface which became signatures of the ball house. but starting in 1933 by a began to create nazi propaganda design in catalogues and exhibitions which celebrated the ideology of racist doctrines of the 3rd riteish. a v.c.
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there were a film about house pupils and teaches who remained and were eager to continue receiving commissions in germany ones who then exhibited a little of the bow houses reformist spirit and ethical principles it is from going sits in. nice funda hole was no exception in 1934 he joined gobos chamber of culture supported hitler and contributed to nazi exhibitions he just wanted to build regardless for whom enticed by new commissions he emigrated to the united states in 1000. 38 there he designed iconic structures like the seagram building in new york. miss fonda whole became a star architect his pandering to the nazis was soon forgotten and hasn't tarnished the baja struck a taishan to the stay still there's little reason to place the bauhaus on a moral pedestal. some of the bauhaus teaches in students who went into exile became successful in the us our house became internationally
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famous but it was never a purely german phenomenon teachers and students came from all over the world areas sharon had experience life on a kibbutz and palestine and brought those ideas with him to death south later he returned to the middle east and built a legendary white city in tel aviv and a pioneering university in one. ready family on lowell university in effect in the southwest of nigeria. ready ready ready area share on the investor can post is as open and airy. tailored to the hot climate and they are ruber culture when he take on the university became the symbols of the fledgling democracy really can he discovers is very important for the jury or for the jews because it was. initiated exactly maybe 60 the movement of independence of nigeria from the british. rule. so basically for them it's the 1st action in the
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jury and university and it stands for a protest against the picture back then modernism was progressive and today 3 f. rat aims to find out in his film moving away. if. there was. to . be a. remember see it sophie's prudent to do this it is there are far worse than far for people members to to be really hard to please our scrum posts. his marker sir crowds. around 200 kilometers to the south is lagos. nigeria is largest city is constantly changing. like other representatives of contemporary backhouse cookie tech.
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asks how do we want to live now and in the future she thinks of the revolutionary ideas of a century ago are still relevant today. when we had monism kamen in the years of any post-colonialism the architects that came of the day will modernise and not the architecture that has really formed the structure of the city of lagos on the early modernism of the forty's fifty's and sixty's still today employed dr tension lagos is expanding out of breath taking pains it's an african 2nd largest city and one of the world's most densely populated and somewhere between colonialism and modernism nigerian architects are creating that own design language. what was considered as african tenets of be within the rule and i am not necessarily mean need to be realistic and appropriate for the city that we live in now we have to
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face the fact that in the city of some people say 80000000 some people say 22 we need to live in a smaller and smaller spaces. is an ultra modern and up market district of lagos he is the architect is constructing minimalist housing units similar to ones built around the globe. a new architecture for new life styles functional economic and compact. so this is a start and 2 bedroom apartment so it's open plan kitchen it's really about i think efficient living. apartments for nigeria's growing middle class who are increasingly cosmopolitan. and you always need to reflect on on on how living in a city is evolving and changing i mean the whole world has changed for the demographic is changing how people live the family unit is being redefined you know and we need to make sure that we produce an architecture that's reflects that and
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that's what the boss did back at the university campus in. its buildings were constructed in the 1960 s. and seventy's open on all sides they function like energy efficient passive houses and coolum selves every inch of space is used efficiently architect ariel sharon employed ideas he'd learned during his studies about how school in debt his architecture is tailored to the people and the surroundings the topography natural light and climate. this is not more than often said jerry garcia you could still go to a pod well the old farmhouse already know this is mother know something about those kids dressed up this. group going to. show you this design is part of bauhaus imagining a research project and exhibition that celebrates the battle house school its legacy and its capacity for promoting trans cultural exchange the campus is seen as
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an architectural milestone. ready ready ready ready the buildings were kept as they were built and they still function. quite well and of course this is thanks to the very intelligent architecture what sharon the architect of the sky was and from his the chair the bows and the smarter is exactly this very serious almost difficult approach. private of course but also to social issues. house as lively open and global social dialogue that's what by has imagined instead it's all about the project as a collaboration between the get institutes the bill has corporation. and the balance house to cultural and defense. as good as it is you are in the focus of the project is why was the bauhaus adopted or in some cases rejected and why was it used to reinterpret it and we discovered
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