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you know what team if holistic aesthetic that. free thinking. honest revolutionary values radical fast. that is about house. after 100 years the ideals of the bar house are more relevant today than they were the spa horse for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future under the lever how we learn how do we live in truth of house and back the boat house influence is everywhere. to our house set out to formulate a language of design that was universal it would be that serves as a list that everything has an ideal high it's an ideal size and that's what optimizers its utility but not in the way they want this kind of push to go out

from wherever you are properly with your design a world every where you're an artist. bound house is a legend the brilliance of the bauhaus school remains undiminished even today. even though its existence was short lived it continues to shape the world we live in. new approaches to education and training architecture painting dance and design were explored and developed here. when hitler seized power and forced the school to shut down its artists architects and visionaries emigrated fanning out and spreading the bow house doctrine around the world. so can we still feel the bow house effect today.

serial production of everyday goods was a cornerstone of the val house vision a partnership between design and industry. at the furniture retailer ikea that vision seems to have become reality. if a mario god knows exactly what consumers want. how can you have your 1st home your 1st bed your 1st so far your 1st desk actually accessible at a price that you can afford that. affordability is the linchpin of the company's business model. ikea was founded in 1943 generations of grown up with its designs. so it's like here the bow house of today is it exactly

what powerhouse found to visit a century ago. we have a total that because democratic design and that 5 dimensions starting with form a connection to our house us we are talking about today is of course that form follows function it needs to be at a good quality for what it's intended use we work very heavily with sustainability and we'll take all of those 4 together with a low price that's when you have a typical ikea product and the 5 pillars of democratic design as formulated by ikea found involve camp he wanted everyone to be able to afford well made products so did vatican all p.s. the 1st bell house director environment he proposed that art craft and industry collaborate to make consumer products more available to the common man. fine was

a conservative place and about how school was eventually forced to move relocated to death south which proved a far better fit. for. weimar didn't want the bauhaus and in 1905 gropius had to look for an alternative site. seemed to be the best option as there were plenty of opportunities for the school to flourish their. politics and industry had vested interests in the bauhaus moving to death are so common at the time in the region was similar to silicon valley today if you will. end the school joined forces with a number of industrial partners inspired by series production the bauhaus began exploring synergies between arts and technology. in total bauhaus partner here and with thousands of firms to work on various projects both large and small there were very close ties between the school and industry lots of people

commissioned the bar hauser's to design fittings for their homes to design brochures for their companies but of course there were plenty of raised eyebrows too and eventually they had to move on once again vita had seen against the backdrop of the great depression the liberal bauhaus school came under increasing pressure. in 1028 tired of facing constant hostility directed by a take or p.s. appointed a successor with swiss architect hannah smy at the helm the bow house focused even more heavily on industry and also became more political. on this my own hut i missed our home and smile moved about house in a very socialist direction communist even. in the extremely productive 2 years that he was director this played a major role which was very different from the copious era. hoped.

the bow house set out to design and manufacture well made products for everyone. catering to everyday needs took priority over artistic considerations. one void to india india into social they wanted to reach households homes society in general. and with products that looked completely unlike anything that had existed before else. but there was a turning point after the 1st world war so by $922.00 or $923.00 of the latest everyone was excited about mechanization and industrial production. site there was a consensus that in the post-war era people should be modern and welcome technology

and progress. and this should be reflected in everyday products from carpets to houses to the urban environment. and they were to do this so as to modernize the city and indeed the world was down these leon. nike is ultimate goal is no different just like the bow house the retailer sees itself as a kind of liberal tree for a better everyday life. we want to create a better everyday life for the many people which in one way as a philosophy is very similar to the thinking of our house that design should not be for the few good products should be for the many for ikea the many are 1st and foremost consumers ultimately it wants to sell products the ballot house effect is unmistakable ikea's democratic design is by definition mass produced the retailer has adapted the core bow house philosophy to to. a consumer society.

than a smile was the bow house director for just 2 years in 1930 the town council dismissed him for communist sympathies. along with some former students he went to the soviet union to help build the fledgling state. the 2nd world war tour germany into 2 fine marren to death south ended up in communist east germany. just boreholes when the hidden in the nfl in there was no scope for a powerhouse to be revived in the early years of communist east germany but it was rejected as a bush while institution. as i knew. the star want to that was the attitude until well after the death of stalin basically until the early 1960 s. and the rise of architectural functionalism when urban planners began erecting

prefab houses in the states on the outskirts of cities also hoped of oxen the better to at that point about house was reevaluated and once again seen as a good thing a poor city focusing on a smile his legacy was politicized design and the famous slogan folks look so spread out of the needs of the people instead of the need for luxury. today balance designed products are expensive only the well off can afford them. such as vilhelm vatten fads table lamp it's now a classic. bargain for the cost of if you're headed up to the bargain fell table last costs around $400.00 euros. and recruit and waffle that's because it was designed and manufactured at. bauhaus

school before cereal production had really taken off the park topped. the heights even at the time the lamp was so expensive that it didn't sell very well. that's. for conference of course. without series production the vulcan fared lamp could only remain a luxury item. but the land did cross the atlantic the museum of modern art in new york city has one in its collection. in the late 1920 s. momus founding director alfred bom helped introduce americans to the balance. swiss born martino sheerly is moments chief curator of architecture and design of god from very early on alfred was keen on and the european of on god in general

what do you especially liked about it was its push to incorporate into everyday life also its merging of art and technology and its interdisciplinary approach and its aim of making the arts nonhierarchical. i was already part took these principles these basic concepts and work them into the founding structure of the museum of modern art museum of modern art the fact. that spamhaus is the foundation of one of the world's foremost collections. the. house stands for a very particular aesthetic but at the same time the bauhaus is quite a vague. the physical use initials of anything the council is modern is designed in the broadest sense very quickly finds itself being described as. in a rather reductive fashion. it's also

a way of signaling your own stylistic preferences and perhaps that's problematic but of course it's also symptomatic of an extraordinary success if you become a brand you've really made it to a market. where all of our house is like. virus sorrow it spreads it spreads more quickly than you realize what if nothing is interesting ever happened at the bare house but they had an amazing chemistry machinery books magazines personalities but was this all just kind of creating a kind of cult so maybe a promise is not a broad brush analogy it's not about industrialization it's not about clarity in the machine age and so on gropius he's a hardcore expressionist at the beginning of browse moments he becomes a kind of a manager is a management culture the spirit we are surrounded here by the effects of this virus

and we're in the center of management culture this is new york management central. architecture critic monthly lives in new york but finds the glass and steel oppressive. has the name battle house simply become a catchall label devoid of real substance. found a house is now a brand instantly recognizable. that's why it's such an enduring favorite. especially for connoisseurs of design and architecture like the ellis. one could also get think it was newly built people are always asking us about it still does little good and.

go beyond us holes i can be sure to find we stumbled across a house completely by chance it was appetizer genovese popping back as a bungalow in need of renovation in a prime location. and i said to my wife one of them sounds interesting let's take a look in fun. at the end as found was a piece of architectural history not even the estate agent was aware that the bungalow was the last surviving house in germany designed by powerhouse architect marcel broyard. yet. we sensed immediately that there was something special about it that is what was on the bus we didn't get it hadn't been touched for years but honestly it was in terrible condition. somehow you could still sense the spirit of boy oh boy it. isn't for boy

a position to be eaves on the ledges under the windows so that sunlight refracts below the windows and there's never any of the wrecked sunlight in the rooms wished for us of the new directors on and start on the level nothing to chance. everything has been meticulously thought through it's absolutely fascinating this is you can't help but be seduced you have to give it to heart so often respect with respect. so if you see these days you don't see many elements like these in houses anymore the cube is little can become very popular again there's lots of new houses and they're very nice but back then they put a lot more 40 into what it would actually be like to live in these houses are living in them holes and under malls usually architects take cues from their clients but here the owners took their cues from bauhaus inspired furnishings in

the late 1920 s. marcel broyard designed this chair for the tone it company the marriage of art and industry had become reality. doesn't. and guys are matching items of garden furniture not only comfortable they also look amazing on lots of tubular steel that is why it's a sleek is issue least. couple had previously only been familiar with broyard the furniture designer but now they've inadvertently become guardians of his architectural legacy in 1000000000 environment. and so we went to lend to find and best sound guitar grady started to bounce from also fish. a few 50 we learnt along . the way felt it was important we understood more about it if we were going to live as most hounds.

mediately strikes you is that the functional rooms face north and the rooms you actually spend time in face of. the house has a very positive energy. and he. of course not everyone has their own private bauhaus museum but they can always make a pilgrimage to the vitro design museum in violet i'm kind. of home. frank gehry. and many other contemporary architects have left. the museum director matteo cleese architecture and design essential to the human experience design is an issue i know i'm doing on the design is basically a way of solving the problems of an opportunity to tackle everyday problems with

creative ideas those kinds of mechanisms of furniture of those kinds of but it can also involve processes and social situation it's of possession is much more of the design than making products a few mirror is no object. design on the. designers also address questions to do with society new materials and with things that are not always tangible and. uses that is an understanding of design that has its roots in bob's sorts of few and as this rule was one of the 1st institutions propagating a wide ranging understanding of design i went beyond individual objects to the bo hauser design was a way of shaping society and the future and so confession. the museum's collection has some 7000 exhibits including many iconic examples of international product design. there are famous pieces by marcel broyard

and of course may sound a whole. based on the whole how to even close to a girlish if there was a very upper class glamorous side to me spend a whole skittish time going with machine modernist architecture doesn't always have to be austere it's not always white walls or the simple small window frames it's easy. to get one so you can be flamboyant to his muse demonstrated with his boss alone a pavilion and also with the furniture he designed for his barcelona chair exudes the same glamour and grandeur is the pavilion itself. you think that race was a straightforward person. so people who obsess about getting everything in the right place everything everything everything so very very directly from what seems like a human project let's figure out the dimensions of the human body it's all going to

system to take care of that body soon it's like let's make a new body let's make architecture in front of equipment that shapes a new film and then it's like let's make a superhuman. you could never imagine that such an obsessive thing from a straightforward person. he's talking about nice found dead all as secret building as steel skeleton frames tower featuring dark glass and bronze beams built in the late 1950 s. it helped usher in a new era of sleek elegant skyscrapers. for sounds with no structural function an idea that missed found or had perfected in chicago minimalist pared down buildings often fronted by a plaster. sort of reserve the opposite straight for dollars and made by crazy people right and preserve be able are often the people

that really affect us at every ever been affected by somebody that's nice car sort of barbell house was not mars. got 45.8 square meters the other apartments are about the same size luxury. by not going anywhere. in france loves her compact little apartment indes out. she doesn't think it's the least bit or sterile soulless. says it is i can see every change in the weather every move through my window it's lovely it was in the you usually only see windows this size in shop fronts and i have a shop window onto a park i love it here it's wonderful it every time of the year especially in winter

when it snows it close in here magical when there's a full moon or moonlight floods through the window it's a permanent light show just for me as my kids. designed by a 100. in 1029 the world famous gang houses were extraordinarily innovative and progressive for the time. the affordable housing project was a perfect example of his guiding principle that architecture has a social responsibility. sparsely it was for all social classes merchants shoemakers metalworkers just think of how most people lived in berlin in the 1920 s. and thirty's look how light this apartment is imagine how it must have felt to people with low incomes it was sensational and just for me. and plastered brick expose lintels made of reinforced concrete aesthetically

harnessed meyer's design mark to break from battle house conventions one of the standout features is the commune old walkway. this is. exuberant from a standard new building which would just have a normal hallway here you're immediately outside and that means there's a very different sense of community there'll be someone outside having a smoke or sitting there and people watching you. so of course you say hello and maybe have a chat. there's no social cohesion in germany these days there's no one like. us with ideas a division that they know how to put into action congress feared. the loud been going houses with the continuation of the urban planning agenda formulated by voted call p.s. the bauhaus in death south set out to build inexpensive housing to address the

shortage in the wake of the 1st world war thus far glavica on a month ago and it was a considerable challenge because gropius is housing estate was also an economic model he designed terrorist high. homes that were relatively small by today's standards but he planned for lots of them like a plant and of course i made it possible for workers to live in a proper house. and what's even more extraordinary is that these houses are still lived in today that they saw to have one thing and. the next sold here is now i'm something of the curiosity here. at a difficult to pull me all see me as a crazy professor out of the one who did of the byelaws building. started out as an experiment to see if it was possible it just feels like it's what

is it possible today in the early 21st century to live comfortably in a bomb most building which has limited space so. it is possible although it does require certain compromises. he says that the fed is in the wrong place ropey has planned it to be the other way around but his bed was only one metre by 80 bits so with a bed that's to bind to the walls a problem none of them fall by that and the other way around would be better and then you could have bedside tables on both sides of ita is these different. plans is a die hard spouse afficionado. his home here on the estate designed by p.s. is his castle. an annoying option i'm having a new garage added it was really hard to find one that suited the house but then i'm obsessed with boss wealth and other things here i wanted something very

specific fortunately i had something to go by by myself hopefully copious master's house still has an intact garage so i use that as my. action over it was hard but i found a company that could build it for me with the promise concrete which is even eco friendly and make something that will look very broad as a ball of article suitable to. be a stroke for efficiency lucian's he tested out new building materials and prefabricated parts that could be made in series production. the construction site was like an industrial production line with several houses under construction at once. the limited budgets called for ingenious architectural solutions. you're here behind the shower curtain was the word of the roof terrace it doesn't because of the shortage of strace the weight of the roof terrace

was through the bathroom to dust a house again was the destruction of pretty busy day to think it does is that you really i imagine the thinking was that all the rooms up here a bedroom. and that a bathroom is the only room that everyone uses different i frequented for the most so it's a good place to put the access from the balcony of the terrace. spots i. got screwed on to swing of the few residents of the estates whose homes still looks just as it did in gropius this day. on the other houses are examples of what one might call about house cage. in 1938 the global spread of our house was given a major boost in new york with an exhibition at moma showcasing its work.

and it's almost impossible to overstate the influence of bellhousing us art schools after $940.00. it was the foundation for generations of artists deep dog. the classical piece was appointed chair of the department of architecture at the harvard university graduate school of design one of the most prestigious architecture departments in the country design and the $192.00 issue in that it means for the whole world went to the ana institute which became the illinois institute of technology out the way that not only designed the new university campus he changed the way that architecture was taught. in the arctic to work on today to tear. the mouse is impossibly important like it's just for us to discuss design without talking about the bauhaus is like talking about cooking without talking about fire it just makes no sense and for that reason we can't get the brown house out of our

bodies or out of our thoughts but that doesn't mean that the people who invented it . do what they were doing i feel like whenever you open your cell phone you put on some clothes you go out the door whenever you read the typewriter feel what you read everything you see almost everything you see. is brown house shaped and and and and packaged and that means we are the victims of the brown house. when the nazis came to power many film about how students and teaches emigrated to the u.s. . in the 1950 s. and sixty's the movement's principles became the backbone of american modernism. on the on the stand in but i think in the 1930 s. and the end user of us were invited to teach at black mountain college in north carolina does in 15 mins but in the 1950 s.

it became a chrysalis for many extraordinarily important artists the couldn't via he said loiter detail age and many of the people who played influential roles in post-war. america not well affiliated with schools that have picked up the mantle of bauhaus showed to this style how robert rauschenberg just but jones most cunning i'm so sick the rope of trash or just the charm or scorning. choreography cunningham who tool to black mountain explored the ideas of movement developed in the bow house stage workshop. the scene where art has gone and the bauhaus of men does cross over into

into the dance into the music 5 ethics are ready to go out. in new york down said jennifer gog and ensures the legend of most cunning m. lives on. merce cunningham radically changed our format down one of the 1st things he did was to create works that were devoid of plot so there were no more character than worst stories and he was interested in looking at dance and movements for movements. his radical approach made him a natural heir to oscar the defining force of the bauhaus stage workshop. centered on the theme of figures in space his work turned dunces into costumed geometrical shapes in exploring the idea of the human body as

a mechanical object. 'd triadic ballet which premiered in 1922 inch to is still performed today. experimentation informs the work of must coming on. people with say the dance isn't human because there is no character going to expressing some emotion and most with say dance is always human because it is performed by the human body was extremely radical and today. dance rehearsal all over they they work in a very abstract a way and that's accepted. big lunch.

the balance tradition was also fostered in post-war west germany at the school of design the highest. i'm finishing line did was to revive the powerhouse many film about houses like box build a co-founder and its 1st director. today the premises served as an exhibition space until its closure in 1968 the hunt was one of the most seminal often design schools in gemini what came to be known as the blue model reconfigured the role of the designer. even in the early days the school of design collaborated closely with partners in industry one of its most successful partnerships with the brown electric company.

from balls the your brain trust of the elements is very about. it harks back to the constructivist graphic design used by. if you it's in the tradition of that out of the crowd. the photo super ask a foreigner in a snow white coffin was commissioned by brown they all designed took these commissions as a way of raising money for the school to go for the short of the new. fung who is head designer at brown he's meeting with the brown collections archivist thomas watson dean. the proportions are key very slim of the proportions come from. detailed arms was appointed head of brown's newly minted design department in the early 1960 s. . together with the own design school he developed

a number of products that are now classics. interdisciplinary team work was crucial to the creative process. which is sort. of the fun of the super s.k.u. for is an example of a product made by a team of people sitting around a table and all chipping in the result was a product that's iconic threw it in the corner order. on purpose it was improved upon step by step and at one point dieter suggested the plexiglass. turntable was designed by block inferred. from. then held back and fed was a film about how students. the new design language traced its lineage from the

balcony to owen and then to brown ending up in households all over the world brown will forever be associated with industrial design or detail he brought a new simplicity and style to everyday objects. is when is it too much or too little what makes a product user friendly when is it too stylish village. the very same questions that preoccupied the bell house school. the cunt how long until brown was well known for a pared down design in just one category how to create high fives as we see here. in global terms the brand wasn't well known so step number 2 was to translate this new design philosophy into the realm of the household. as it was with household

appliances that the brown brand crossed the atlantic it has that in america they were instantly recognized as examples of timeless design. flaws this design of. the film about how hot in there now thanks to post-war era brown was very successful in a stablish in a very high and corporate design a corporate identity if you will know that the corporate identity here to stay alive. it's known for contemporary and functional design and detail hamas was instrumental in that process obs in taba. today the world's leading tech companies continue to be inspired by the classic $960.00 s. and seventy's brown a static anesthetic that lives on apple's i pad and i found. the

1st generation i pod which references the brown t 3 pocket radio apple's chief designer jony ive acknowledges the debt and presented detail roms with an i pod in return. while bauhaus propagated a union of vox craft and technology brown and apple representing a union of art commercialism and consumption a sign of the times. the minimalist still most modest look of their products is well suited to the digital age in today's highly individualized society the design of the products we buy is an expression of our identity. what's modest about our house object things fake or fake modesty that's great news here i feel like this is a perfect brown house object in fact steve jobs went to

a lecture somebody from the knew about house and said ok i totally love the principles of our house so we always carry about house in our pocket anything with somebody with the latest phone feels more human probably the nicest they don't just feel fashionable sometimes about picking up the fares it's about not falling behind still still being fully able to connect when the human is the most design thing there are. now we better get a new concept of design because it's just fine to have an i phone it's not so fun to be and i think. the unity of art and technology developed in deaths now joins to hunt as mine is focus on the needs of the people together they yield good design for every day objects that is the bauhaus effect. the basic tenets of our house have been passed on through its successes and to traveled around the world.

the unity of arts and technology has been superceded by the unity of arts and come us. about house as a brand a lifestyle. all that's great until you realize that you yourself your emotions your feelings your thoughts your body your genetics your children your way of life the sky the weather now. design the weather we have design around extension they realize the value has design good design has brought us to the very end of the destruction of our species right at that moment our before we tell ourselves let's kill of our hearts. or we keep posting questions for such foul hospice hoit us only benthic and the reason why bal house is still interesting today is guns is that it raises interesting very fundamental questions

hard voice how do we want to live in the future that's a seizure that is most definitely one reason why about how still has such a feel of hospice how it all still. does about house still have something to teach us. who are we now and what are our needs can be good design still improve people's everyday lives. we'll find out in the 3rd and last part of the series powerhouse welt the utopia.

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