Tag: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

About the Bauhaus»

Bauhaus is the com­mon term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and archi­tec­ture school in Ger­many that oper­ated from 1919 to 1933, and for its approach to design that it pub­li­cized and taught. The most nat­ural mean­ing for its name (related to the Ger­man verb for “build”) is Archi­tec­ture House. Bauhaus style became one of the most influ­en­tial cur­rents in Mod­ernist archi­tec­ture, and one of the most impor­tant cur­rents of the New Objectivity.

The Bauhaus art school had a pro­found influ­ence upon sub­se­quent devel­op­ments in art, archi­tec­ture, graphic design, inte­rior design, indus­trial design and typography.

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About minimalism»

Min­i­mal­ism describes move­ments in var­i­ous forms of art and design, espe­cially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fun­da­men­tal fea­tures and core self expres­sion. In other fields of art, it has been used to describe the plays of Samuel Beck­ett, the films of Robert Bres­son, the sto­ries of Ray­mond Carver, and even the auto­mo­bile designs of Colin Chap­man. Con­tinue reading »