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The Bauhaus: Part one
- Perhaps the most important influence on contemporary design is the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus was a school in Germany training designers in all fields. To this day, most design education is based on the Bauhaus teaching method. The Bauhaus was the place where all the previous movements and styles came together. At the core of all these prior movements, constructivism, futurism, Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, and arts and crafts was the idea that design could make the world a better place. This was the guiding principle at the Bauhaus. Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919. Like the leaders of the other movements at the time, he believed the old order of aristocracy and corruption had led Germany into the catastrophic war. Design would create a new society and a better way of life. He saw the solution as a return to an earlier medieval time when artists and craftsmen worked as one. But he wasn't interested in medieval romantic forms. Like the constructivist, he viewed the machine and an…
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