Bauhaus | Modernist Architecture

Walter Gropius’ “Sociological Premises for the Minimum Dwelling of Urban Industrial Populations” (1929)

• October 28, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Bauhaus, minimum dwelling, sociology of architecture, standard housing, translation, Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius’ “Houses, Walk-ups or High-rise Apartment Blocks?” (1931)

• October 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, urbanism/city planning
Tags: apartments, Bauhaus, CIAM, city planning, internationalism, town planning, translation, urbanism, Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius’ “Housing Industry” (1924)

• October 28, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Bauhaus, construction, dry assembly, housing industry, industrialization, standardization interchangeable parts, translation, Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius’ The New Architecture and the Bauhaus (1925)

• October 28, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural education, architectural pedagogy, Bauhaus, Bauhaus Dessau, functionalism, industrialization, modernism, new architecture, standardization, translation, Walter Gropius

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “The New Era” (1930)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Policy of the Stuttgart Exhibition” (1927)

• October 25, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural policies, Bauhaus, housing, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, Stuttgart, translation, Weissenhof

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Aphorisms on Architecture and Form” (1923)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: aphorisms, architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Two Glass Skyscrapers” (1922)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: Bauhaus, glass architecture, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, skyscrapers, translation

Henryk Berlewi’s “The Arts Abroad” (1922-23)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, modernism, art, De Stijl, Russian avant-garde, Bauhaus
Tags: translation, Theo van Doesburg, Mies van Der Rohe, Bauhaus, Constructivism, Malevich, Lissitzky, Suprematism, Henryk Berlewi, international congress, Tatlin, international constructivism, Purism

Farkas Molnár’s “Life at the Bauhaus” (1925)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural education, architectural theory, architecture, Bauhaus, dancing, El Lissitzky, Farkas Molnár, Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, translation, Walter Gropius

László Moholy-Nagy’s “Photography Unparalleled” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: aesthetic theory, Bauhaus, camera, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, light, modernism, perspective, photography, photomontage, theory of art, translation

Karel Teige’s “Ten Years of the Bauhaus” (1929-1930)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, modernism, art, De Stijl, Russian avant-garde, Bauhaus
Tags: De Stijl, translation, Theo van Doesburg, Mies van Der Rohe, Bauhaus, Karel Teige, Hannes Meyer, Constructivism, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Gropius, Malevich

Exerpts from Ernő Kállai’s “Ten Years of Bauhaus” (1930)

• October 21, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural criticism, art criticism, Bauhaus, Erno Kallai, functionalism, Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, style, translation, Walter Gropius

Ludwig Hilberseimer’s “Construction and Form” (1924)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural theory, Architecture and Form, Bauhaus, building, concrete, construction, ferroconcrete, G, Ludwig Hilberseimer, translation

Hannes Meyer’s “bauhaus and society” (1929)

• October 20, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural theory, architecture and society, art and life, Bauhaus, building, Hannes Meyer, translation

Hannes Meyer’s “building” (1928)

• October 20, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural theory, architecture, art and life, Bauhaus, building, construction, functionalism, Hannes Meyer, modernism, translation

Hannes Meyer’s “The New World” (1926)

• October 20, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, automobiles, Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer, machinery, modernism, The New World, translation

Hannes Meyer’s “Construction, Construction Workers, and Technicians in the Soviet Union” (1931)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer, internationalism, modernism, socialism, Soviet Union, translation

Walter Riezler’s “The Fight for German Culture” (1932)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, modernism
Tags: architecture, Bauhaus, modernism, Theodor Fischer, translation, Walter Riezler, Werkbund

Modernist Architecture

Walter Gropius’ “Sociological Premises for the Minimum Dwelling of Urban Industrial Populations” (1929)

Walter Gropius’ “Houses, Walk-ups or High-rise Apartment Blocks?” (1931)

Walter Gropius’ “Housing Industry” (1924)

Walter Gropius’ The New Architecture and the Bauhaus (1925)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “The New Era” (1930)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Policy of the Stuttgart Exhibition” (1927)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Aphorisms on Architecture and Form” (1923)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Two Glass Skyscrapers” (1922)

Henryk Berlewi’s “The Arts Abroad” (1922-23)

Farkas Molnár’s “Life at the Bauhaus” (1925)

László Moholy-Nagy’s “Photography Unparalleled” (1927)

Karel Teige’s “Ten Years of the Bauhaus” (1929-1930)

Exerpts from Ernő Kállai’s “Ten Years of Bauhaus” (1930)

Ludwig Hilberseimer’s “Construction and Form” (1924)

Hannes Meyer’s “bauhaus and society” (1929)

Hannes Meyer’s “building” (1928)

Hannes Meyer’s “The New World” (1926)

Hannes Meyer’s “Construction, Construction Workers, and Technicians in the Soviet Union” (1931)

Walter Riezler’s “The Fight for German Culture” (1932)

Main Site

Archives

Follow “Modernist Architecture”