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... In the early twentieth centaury at the peak of the modernist era came Bauhaus, this school of thought encouraged critical thinking about the means and ends of design and urged us to “think about design in a theoretically self-conscious way. ...
At the peak of modernism in 1919 Walter Gropius founded The Bauhaus (bauen=build + haus=house), the most widely known, discussed, imitated, dissected, exhibited phenomenon in modern design. ... The Bauhaus was the first example of an organised, united system to design, something that the early modernists lacked "modern artists familiar with science and economics, began to unite creative imagination with a practical knowledge of craftsmanship, and thus to develop a new sense of functional design." The Bauhaus was Walter Gropius’ attempt to start a design school that embraced the machine and produced objects in all media for mass production. The Bauhaus taught revolutionary ways of thinking about design and technology. ... ” He developed the triangle, circle, square theory and stated “there is a universal correspondence between the three basic shapes and the three primary colours, moving from hot to cold, light to dark, and active to passive,” ideas like this one are the basis behind the new ways of thinking about design that The Bauhaus promoted.
However in its early stages The Bauhaus was primarily expressionistic, it wasn’t until 1923, when it moved Dessau that the designers who were primarily interested in more distilled, geometric forms and rational principles began to gain the upper hand.
Approximate Word count = 1097
Approximate Pages = 4.4
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