Idea to re-build the world after WWI, 29th cont...

Modernism History [continued from last two post]

Industrialization
Machine is a key part to this movement

• Remake peoples values
• Design could educate people

Modernism started to move widespread, and modernist architects became city planners, who were now in a position to express this "new architecture" a new spirit, movement toward: "the new"

Bauhaus: New movement took practical form

• Work
• Creativity
• Value

Breakdown of art and workmanship
Art was not just for the rich, everyone should have access to good design.
Value: Art was not just for museums, it seperates its aesthetic value from everyday life
Bauhaus wanted to integrate these three principals, and integrate them into everyday life and society.
Form Follows Function
Design language ie; Handles, different fuctions (kettle, door) Different forms.

Nazi's closed Bauhaus as a purge of modernism, in generally moved to the United States