Gropius House

Staatliches
Bauhaus

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Staatliches Bauhaus
commonly known simply as
Bauhaus, was an art school
in Germany that combined
crafts and the fine arts, and
was famous for the
approach to design that it
publicised and taught. It
operated from 1919 to
1933. At that time the
Walter term
Gropius was a German
German
architect.
Awards : AIA Gold medal
Albert medal and Goethe prize
EARLY LIFE OF WALTER GROPIUS
FULL NAME: GEORGE WALTER ADOLF
GROPIUS.
Born in berlin ,18 may,1883
He was the third child of Walter Adolf
Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline
Scharnweber.
Earlier he was taught by his father.

Early Education
Educated in private
elementary school
1903 he left school and
went to the technical
university in munich to
study architecture

The Bauhaus was first founded by Walter

Gropius in Weimar. Walter Gropius served
as a sergeant and then as a lieutenant in
the first world war . He survived in the
first world war and was awarded a iron
cross Gropius then like his father and
uncle became an architect . Gropius could
not draw , and was dependant on
collaborators and partner-interpreters
throughout his career . In school he hired
an assistant to complete his homework
for him.
And then in 1908 after studying
architecture for 4 semesters, Gropius
joined
the office
of the
renowned
HIS
OPINION
ABOUT
BAUHAUS
architect Peter Behrens.
The complete building is the final aim of the
visual arts
Art is not a profession. There is no
difference between the artist and the
craftsman . In moments beyond the control of
his will, the grace of heaven may cause his
work to blossom into art. But the proficiency
in his craft is essential to every artist . There
in lies a source of creative imagination, let us
create a new guild of craftsmen, without the
class distinctions which raise an arrogant
barrier .
Together let us conceive and create the new
building of future ,which will embrace
architecture and sculpture and painting in one
unity and which will rise one day toward
heaven from the hand of a million workers
like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

inspiration

His father and his great uncle martin

Gropius were architect, that was why he
wanted to become an architect from his
childhood

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On a hill in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the house Walter

Gropius built when he came to America in 1937 still
gleams fresh and bright. But over the years the
house
has come to seem more and more isolated in time
and
place. It belongs, now, to the Society for the
Preservation of New England Antiquities. The house
is beautiful and subtle and delicate, but, in a way, it
stands for the failure of Modernism to reintroduce
the
old way of seeing.

Side elevation

View

Aerial view

Location
The exact address of the house is: 68 Baker Bridge Road,
Lincoln, Massachusetts, 01 773.

Concept

Located on the hill of a mountain, still leading the

nature that surrounds it, the Gropius house was made
according to standards that were raised at the
Bauhaus but consistent with some features of the
architecture of New England. As for space, simplicity
and order prevailed under European influences, while
the geometry-free beauty and decoration of the
architecture of New England were made to see.
W. Gropius also combines materials such as bricks,
stone slabs and wooden slats with new materials that
were used in the United States as gypsum, industrial
handrails, new laminated glass block and new
Structure and Materials
technologies for facilities
The basement of the house was built in stone
The materials used were wooden tablets on the walls,
brick, steel to the forges as stairs, pergolas,
balustrades, columns and ornamental porches lined
with sheet metal building, the foundation stone and
flooring, as well as laminated glass for the woodwork
and glass block to shed light on some points.
We can not forget the furniture of the Bauhaus
Gropius design because when you finish building the
house, gave them a suitable place inside the house.
NAME : GAURI
JADHAV
ARCHITECTURE
CLASS: TY. B.ARCH
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BAUHAUS
IDEALS

Bauhaus
weaving

CURRICULUM MAP OF
BAUHAUS

The Bauhaus ideals were that

the artist must recognize his
social responsibility to the
community and likewise, the
community must accept and
support the artists.
The Bauhaus school strived to
produce a new approach to
architecture that incorporated
artistic design, craftsmanship,
and modern machine technology.
The major goals of the school
were to encourage craftsman
and artists to collaborate, to
elevate the status of crafts, and
to maintain relations with
industry and craft leaders in
order to eventually become
independent of government
control

Bauhaus
ideology

Works carried out in the bauhaus school

The Bauhaus school wished to articulate
contemporary culture through the creation of new
forms that were designed for everyday life. They
especially excelled at weaving and textile design
Johannes Itten
(1888- 1967)
Swiss
expressionist,
painter
,designer
writer.

An environment of
experimentation and
synthesis
Mass production is
reconcilable with
individual
Artistic spirit
Honesty of
construction ,truth to
materials
Form follows function
Simplified forms and
clean lines
Qualities of light and
airiness
Standardised production
Architectural adaptation
Modern sense of beauty
to our world

The study of rational design in

terms of technics and
materials should be only the
first step in the development
of a new and modern sense of
beaut.
We live in the 20th century,
the student architect or
designer should be equipped
for the modern world in its
The textile department was a neglected part of the Bauhaus.various
Mrs Stolz
, She applied ideas
aspects
from modern art to weaving, experimented with synthetic materials, and improved the
department's technical instruction to include courses in mathematics. The Bauhaus weaving
workshop became one of its most successful facilities.

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Paul Klee (1879-1940)

German and Swiss
painter

Wassily Kandinsky (18661944) Russian Painter

Marcel Lajos Breur, Architect,

furniture designer

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Laimonis meiris,
Artist
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Orientatio
n
The Bauhaus-University Weimar is an
international research university that is
committed to the idea of Bauhaus and
therefore has a traditionally international
orientation. Its aspiration is to combine arts
with sciences and technics which leads us to
run a path that is unique in Germany. The
aspiration for internationalization is no empty
phrase but an integrative component of our
self-understanding and the orientation

WEIMAR

BERLIN

DESSAU

The School existed in three German Cities:

Weimar from 1919 to

1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933, under three
different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from
1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the
school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi-led
government which had claimed that it was a centre of communist intellectualism.
Though the school was closed, the staff continued to spread its idealistic precepts
as they left Germany and emigrated all over the world.
Higher academy of
arts
Administration
department
Theatre and refectory
Studio accommodation
Technical
school

Academy of
arts

Technical
school

Teachers housing

Administration
department

About
Bauhau
s
Dessau

Theatre and refectory

Studio accomodation

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About construction process
Based on Henry fords concept
of the assembly line , the
construction was completed
in a Bauhaus became the
most filmed and discussed
movie in Europe

Construction of each element is

clear and no bolts are hidden and
all the metal work is revealed.

About bauhaus
interiors

Elevation

The Bauhaus movement teaches

truth to materials as a core tenet,
which means that material should
be used in its most appropriate and
honest form, and its nature
should not be changed. For
example, supportive materials such
as steel should be exposed and not
hidden within the interior
framework of a piece of furniture

pathways

Sectio
n

Section
Plan

lecture halls
View
staircases
Stairwells became
the vast and
luminous meeting
places that
inspired
photographers and
painters as a
symbol of a new
art of living

The lecture hall is like the heart of

the Bauhaus because here you can
see in a compact form that was
developed in those years and that is
where the festivities were.

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Section of Teachers Housing

NAME : GAURI
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Children's playing
area

Mechanical
operating rooms

Kids zone

Auditorium in
bauhaus

Lev Gargir Architects

also based in Tel Aviv
designed this space
with Bauhaus
principles in mind for
the floor plans and
elevations and worked
with Sarit Shani Hay
for the interiors.

Radiator room

Exhibition hall

courtyards for kids

Balconies for
dormitory

Bauhaus cafeteria

Art gallery
Ceiling fixtures

Classrooms for
kids

Workshop area

Housing furniture

Lifts
The Examples above are no doubtedly visually
exciting and imaginatively appealing offering fun play
experiences, (and create beautiful photographic
imagery), there seems to be little consideration when
designing these spaces of the children's wider wellbeing - emotional, psychological and spiritual

Atelier space

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Dining
rooms

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Weaving in

jewellery making in Bauhaus

Bauhaus Furniture

Bauhaus

The Bauhaus was a design

school Germany created in
1919 and shut down in
1933.
The forms in the Bauhaus
furniture are frequently
simple and light without
decorative additive just
following the needs of the
consumer. Used are: steel,
glass, bent wood, leathers
and plastic. The most
attentive colours are:
generally black, white,
brown, grey and chromium.
Sometimes the primary
colors of the furniture are
used sporadically to
accentuate and to give
Jewellery by the Bauhaus industrial
entirely the less dark
designer Naum Slutzky reflects this
appearance. Bauhaus
The weaving workshop was one
age of machine technology and the
furniture was the preamble
of the most successful
new Modernist movement. Staggering
of modernism and
workshops at the Bauhaus. It
inflation
in
Germany
forced
functionalism.
was primarily attended by
women. Here, they
goldsmiths to turn to base metals. At
Metalworking was another popular workshop at the
the Bauhaus, meanwhile, the
experimented with both
Bauhaus and, along with the cabinetmaking studio, was
emphasis was on design and work
traditional and industrialised
the most successful in developing design prototypes for
processes rather than the value of
weaving techniques. The colour
mass production. In this studio, designers such as
the materials. This necklace is made
and formal vocabulary was
Marianne Brandt (2000.63a-c), Wilhelm Wagenfeld and
of sections of chromium-plated brass
strongly influenced by Paul
Christian Dell created beautiful, modern items such as
tubing. Slutzky was fascinated by this
Klees theories. The Bauhaus
lighting fixtures and tableware. Occasionally, these
fabrics were produced as yard
newly commercially available
objects were used in the Bauhaus campus itself; light
material. He also worked in more
goods, and new types of
fixtures designed in the metalwork shop illuminated the
conventional materials such as gold
synthetic fibres were developed
Bauhaus building and some faculty housing. Brandt was
Metals
in
and cabochon (dome-cut) stones
for upholstery
fabrics
the first woman to attend the metalworking studio, and
Bauhaus
replaced Lszl Moholy-Nagy (1987.1100.158) as studio
director in 1928. Many of her designs became iconic
expressions of the Bauhaus aesthetic. Her sculptural and
geometric silver and ebony teapot (2000.63a-c), while
never mass-produced, reflects both the influence of her
mentor, Moholy-Nagy, and the Bauhaus emphasis on
industrial forms. It was designed with careful attention to
: GAURI
functionality and ease of use, from the nondrip NAME
spout to
JADHAV
the
heat-resistant
ebony
handle.
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