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Undeterred by the hostile critical response to The Painted Word, and perhaps even encouraged by the stir the book made, Wolfe set about writing a critique of modern architecture. From Bauhaus to Our House was published in full in two issues of Harper's Magazine, then issued in book form by Wolfe's long-time publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux in ...
The first building built entirely on Bauhaus design principles was the concrete and steel Haus am Horn, built in 1923 in Weimar, Germany, designed by Georg Muche. [24] The Gropius-designed Bauhaus school building in Dessau, built 1925–26 and the Harvard Graduate Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts; 1949–50) also known as the Gropius Complex ...
The Yamawakis brought two touring Bauhaus exhibitions to Japan, Gropius and Bauhaus in 1954, and 50 Years of the Bauhaus in 1971. [25] Ise and Walter Gropius came to Japan on the occasion of their exhibition and preferred it to the versions that had toured in Europe and America. Michiko wrote that the Gropiuses had a lovely time with them in ...
Cabin Porn (book) Cambridge (book) Castle (Macaulay book) Cathedral (children's book) Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages; Circle: International Survey of Constructivist Art; A Classical Adventure: The Architectural History of Downing College, Cambridge; The Classical Language of Architecture; A Clearing in the Distance ...
Hesse dismissed Meyer as head of the Bauhaus school, with a monetary settlement, on 1 August 1930. [12] Meyer's open letter in a left-wing newspaper two weeks later characterizes the Bauhaus as "Incestuous theories (blocking) all access to healthy, life-oriented design... As head of the Bauhaus, I fought the Bauhaus style". [13]
László Moholy-Nagy (/ m ə ˌ h oʊ l i ˈ n ɒ dʒ /; Hungarian: [ˈlaːsloː ˈmoholiˌnɒɟ]; [2] born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school.
The White City (Hebrew: העיר הלבנה, Ha-Ir ha-Levana; Arabic: المدينة البيضاء Al-Madinah al-Bayḍā’) is a collection of over 4,000 buildings in Tel Aviv from the 1930s built in a unique form of the International Style, commonly known as Bauhaus, by German Jewish architects who fled to the British Mandate of Palestine from Germany (and other Central and East European ...
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