Modern architecture

1. MODERN ARCHITECTURE I semester lecture 4

1. Walter Gropius, BAUHAUS 19191933
2. Revolutionary Russia –
Suprematism, Constructivism

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Bauhaus manifesto by Walter Gropius
Lyonel Feininger “Cathedral” 1919

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Key ideas of BAUHAUS
• Unity of Creativity and Manufacturing
• Linking theoretical and intellectual pursuits with practical skills
• Emphasizing experiment and problem solving

5. 1st phase of Bauhaus: Weimar 1919-1925

Directed by Walter Gropius from 1919-1928

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Grand Ducal Saxon school of arts and crafts, Henry Van de Velde, Weimar

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Johannes Itten, “VORKURS”
From 1919 to 1922, Itten taught at
the Bauhaus, developing the
innovative "preliminary course”
which was to teach students the
basics of material characteristics,
composition, and color

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Gergard Marcks
Established a ceramic
workshop at the
Bauhaus school

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Oskar Schlemmer,
Head of the Theater workshop,
Das Triadische Ballet

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The Triadic Ballet

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Sommerfeld House, Berlin-Dahlem, W.Gropius, A.Meyer, 1920-1922

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2nd and 3rd phases: Dessau 1925-1932, Berlin 1932-1933
With a new building inaugurated in the industrial town of Dessau in 1925,
architecture becomes part of the curriculum.
Second director of Bauhaus: Hannes Meyer, 1928-30

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House Gropius, Dessau

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UNOVIS (Utverditeli Novogo Iskusstva
[Advocates of New Art], also known as
POSNOVIS,
Posledovateli
Novogo
Iskusstva [Followers of the New Art], and
MOLPOSNOVIS [Young Followers of New
Art]) was a short-lived but influential
group of Russian artists founded by
Kazimir Malevich

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The emblem of the UNOVIS

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Lamtsov. Abstractive exercise to
detect the mass and weight, 1922

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SUPREMATISM
Was an art movement focused on basic
geometrical forms painted in a limited range
of clolors
/ Elementarism / Rationalism
-- More utopian, spiritual, often mystical,
abstract
K.Malevich. Suprematist composition

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Vicrory over the Sun, Suprematist ballet

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Ilya Chashnik, suprematist architectural model

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Kazimir Malevich, Architecton

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Theo Van Doesburg

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ASNOVA – Association of New
Architects, architectural association
in the Soviet Union, which was active
in the 1920s and early 1930s,
commonly called 'the Rationalists'.

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CONSTURCTIVISM
/ Productivism:
-- Utilitarian, revolutionary, materialistic,
engineering & construction.
Sought a communitarian socialist art.
Tatlin Tower

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Moisei Ginzburg
Narkomfin House

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Zuev’s House by Ilya Golosov, 1925-27

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Konstantin Melnikov,
Melnikov House

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Soviet Pavilion at the Expo in Paris 1925