Bauhaus: Design in a Nutshell (3/6)

43 thoughts on “Bauhaus: Design in a Nutshell (3/6)”

1. Bauhaus – a great art movement and also a damn fine band… 🙂

2. Twisted quotes and sensationalist illustration result in a vid I doubt you'll change or take down but here's the truth:

   Breuer had creative vision of chairs metaphorically represented by air. This was the drive for his creation of the cantilevered chair.

   Yet you state he first created the chair then, "despite his success…", predicted a future where chairs are obsolete replaced by columns of air making people float. This is a disgrace to his name and creative genius.

3. A bit disappointed they didn't mention Peter Murphty

4. The Bauhaus School is in Weimar, but the building you show there is located in Dessau.

5. wow, amazing work!

6. I need a good supportive column of air.

7. Is there an article that talks about his column of air chair design? That I'd like to read.

8. Really well made. good work.

9. good video, still some wrong facts

10. Bauhaus is also a Hardware-Store in Germany 😉 Didnt know how much is behind it!

11. The building you indicate as being in Weimar is actually in Dessau, Germany. The Bauhaus school moved to Dessau in 1925 after a newly elected reactionary government in Weimar cut their funding.

12. Wrong facts.. that are this: ….Please, inform us. Thanks in advance.

13. Then I love Bauhaus

14. A bit disappointed they didn't mention Johannes Itten.

15. I like bauhaus design, but why is there this attitude that decoration is bad and that you can't put something in just because it looks good ? also, is modernism the end of architecture? or will there be a new shift in the future?

16. well the building shown in the beginning of this video is not located in Weimar. Ist in Dessau, where the second period took place.

17. Thanks a lot! It's good to find people who share their knowledge 🙂

18. fuck bauhas not the band oh there awesome.

19. nice presentation

20. 0:47 = project X 🙂

21. It looks good, but without captions I can't follow a word as I'm deaf. I expect an Institution like OU to provide them.

22. excellent video!!

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24. hi could you tell me who designed this video? and what kind of animated video style would you call this?

25. Bauhaus was one of the most definitive design movements of the modern age, reaching its peak between the two world wars.  The word Bauhaus, loosely translated from German, mean House of Construction, or School of Building.  Bauhaus was a new type of art school.  Historically, European art academies taught each design subject separately.  The Bauhaus offered foundation training in many art and design disciplines.  They believed in variety.  Understanding mass production was part of the curriculum and the school sought to develop students who could unify art with craft while embracing new technology.  It was also the beginning of the art school as an alternative way of life.  Germany at that time was a pretty conservative place.  And before the Nazis said NEIN! to the Bauhaus, it was arguably the most celebrated art school in the world.  Bauhaus thinkers believed the world needed to be fundamentally re-thought.  Unnecessary ornamentation was out, minimalism was in.  Good design required simplicity and geometric purity.  One of the best known icons of Bauhaus design is the cantilevered chair.  Designed by someone named Breuer, it was inspired by the steel tubes of his bicycle, and ultimately led to the first lightweight, mass-produced metal chair.  Despite his success, Breuer concluded that eventually chairs would become obsolete and everyone would soon be sitting on supportive columns of air.  Bauhaus was all about innovation!   And inspiration.  Nowadays, Bauhaus influences can be seen everywhere, from road signs and graphic design, to big windows and even bigger buildings.  In architecture, the International Styles, as it became known, influenced skylines the world over.  Bauhaus was about ideas, reform, exploration and vitality.  About making more tidy sense of the rapidly evolving world around us.  And giving us more cool stuff for our apartments!  How Bauhaus is your house?

26. I wish the scene about Bauhaus creating "art school" as an institution didn't show a drunken, passed out student with a wine bottle — b/c of this, I dont' think I can show it to my high school design students. (Boo).

27. Excellent!

28. I love the graphics and most of the explaining, but to me it seems yet kinda ambigous. Maybe this is just so general, but still.. I think it could be more specific.

29. How Bauhaus is your house… Someone kill me…

30. Does anyone know where the narrator is from? I'm not a native speaker and it's realy difficult to specify things like that…

31. This video is beautiful, wish it didnt end so quickly.

32. The Nazis were not exactly "Conservative", they were fascists.

33. i dont understand the germans they kick our the nazis facists to get in the muslim facists

34. this video is the best

35. how bauhaus is my house? not bauhaus enough

36. Degeneracy.

37. Amazing! What program did you use to make this presentation? The animation is awesome!

38. Where's my supportive chair of air? 🙂

39. bauhaus suck so does you

40. nice video, but two mistakes… first of all, the nazis were fascists and not just "conservative" and secondly, that building shown is not in Weimar, but Dessau. Otherwise a good video and would be great if it was longer!

41. Great !!! Concrete and paint. Has to be the most god awful school of architecture ever. Art ? Makes a mud hut look intricate. Perfect for getting those kids a degree in architecture. No talent required.

42. Thank you Brother ErasMys' the Mighty!

43. This is a like a weird excerpt from Train Spotting

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