BAUHAUS (1919-1933) FACTORES QUE LA PROPICIARON: Divorcio entre arte y técnica. Falta de conexión con la comunidad. El artista no satisface el mercado capitalista. M.Arq. Irma Villegas Guzmán

“Arte del pueblo para el pueblo”. PROPÓSITO: Contacto con la realidad del trabajo. El trabajo artístico debe enriquecer la vida cotidiana. No producir “obras de arte”. “Arte del pueblo para el pueblo”.

(Berlín 1883- Boston 1969).

Henry Clément van de Velde 1904-05 Bauhaus en Weimar 1919.

Bauhaus en Dessau en 1925. Walter Gropius.

Bauhaus. 1925.

1933 desaparece la Bauhaus. Movimiento Nazi. Mies van der Rohe.

Mies van der Rohe: (1886-1969)

Ludwig Mies, now Mies van der Rohe continued work through the twenties and became increasingly involved with artistic movements of the time in Berlin such as the Novembergruppe and Zehner Ring. With a new name came also a new sense of style. His phrase “less is more “ began to be seen in his work as seen in his entry to a German skyscraper competition. The building was made entirely of steel and glass composites. Skyscraper model.

This chair was a design for the same exhibition. In 1925 van der der Rohe was appointed VP of the Deutsche Werkbund an organization aimed at elevating the quality of german design. The next year he was given the task to head the Weissenhof Exhibition, a model housing colony in Stuttgart. Like his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe believed that furniture also played an important role in the design of a building. This chair was a design for the same exhibition.

The following year he designed a bank and office building in Stuttgart for another national competition. One of his greatest designs came the following year in the German Pavilion in Barcelona in 1929.

The next year Mies designed the Tugendhat house in Czechoslovakia The next year Mies designed the Tugendhat house in Czechoslovakia.His design was once again revolutionary and combined the seamless flow from outdoors to indoors.

In 1930 he served as Bauhaus director taking over from former colleague Walter Gropius. Mies served this position until the school was closed by the Nazi party in 1933. The school had a very renegade reputation and as such it had moved quite a bit from Weimar where it began to Dessau before settling in Berlin.

1937 marks the departure of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from Germany due to rising pressure from the Nazi party. Before leaving however he was offered a professorship at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago. This would later become the Illinois Institute of Technology and Mies would be the prime architect for the campus of the newly formed school.