包豪斯简介 英文版Bauhaus

BauhausThe Bauhaus is the best-known school of art,design and architecture of the twentiethcentury. Among its staff and students wereleading pioneers of early modernism in allareas of the arts and crafts, and the impact oftheir work and ideas has been felt in Europeand the United States for many years.Intended to represent a fresh start afterWorld War I, the school opened in 1919 underthe direction of the architect Walter Gropius, inthe buildings of the Weimar Academy of Art.In 1925 it moved to Dessau, a city withstronger industrial links, in new buildingsdesigned by Gropius. After being closed by thegovernment, the Bauhaus, now under Mies vander Rohe, operated in Berlin in 1932-3, until itwas closed once again by the Nazis.Extending the thinking of leading figures inthe Arts and Crafts movement in Britain suchas William Morris, C.R. Ashbee and W.R.Lethaby, Gropius hoped to reunite the fine and applied arts in the aftermath of the war. He attracted an impressive range of established artists to form the initial staff, including Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger and Paul Klee(once a member of Der Blaue Reiter). Although these teachers were not architects, the school's aim was that all students should graduate in architecture, for it was believed that this discipline encapsulated(囊括) all other areas of art and design: In their first year students pursued the Vorkurs（预备课程）, or foundation course, after which they studied in a workshop dedicated to materials, investigating wood, metal, weaving, ceramics and printing. In fact many graduated as designers in these fields rather than in architecture.The foundation course, taught initially by Jahannes Itten, then Laszlo Moholy-Nagy after 1923, was crucial in establishing a common approach among the students. Emphasis was placed on examining the formal and physical properties(特征) of materials in order tofind principles of design that would respect the axiom（原则、公理）"truth to materials". Consequently, abstract ideas of texture, volume, form, space, color, transparency and extension became a shared visual language across diverse media, and helped to shape a recognizable "Bauhaus approach".One continuing question at the school was how designs could be adopted by industry. The original emphasis on the crafts changed after 1923, when there was a drive to find industrial sponsorship and to view the work carried out in the workshops as prototypes serving industrial manufacture. Some workshops achieved better results than others in this goal, and among the successful items produced were lamps, industrial glass, woven textiles, wallpaper, furniture and graphic designs.The first printed graphic works reflected the bias towards craft in the school's early years and the output consisted of artists' portfolios, largely of prints by teachers, often in Expressionist styles. By the time of the first major exhibition of all Bauhaus products, held in Weimar in 1923, the catalogue showed the influence of the Dutch De Stijl movement and Russian Constructivism. The cover, designed by Herbert Bayer, and theinterior layout, by Moholy-Nagy, used the sans-serif typefaceVenus Grotesk, in black and red inks, and the text was arrangedin blocks of asymmetrical type. This very modern appearancesignalled the beginning of a stable alliance between the "newtypography" and the Bauhaus.The school was extremely successful in self-promotion,publishing a magazine at various stages of its existence and,most importantly, a series of volumes, the Bauhausbiicher(Bauhaus books), from 1925. Through both these publications the writings of Bauhaus staff and other international modernist designers and architects were disseminated, and in addition a modern typographical style became firmly associated with the school.In the teaching of graphic design, Moholy-Nagy, Bayer and Joost Schmidt subscribed to the "rationalization" movement, which was popular in modernist circles at the time. All graphic designs were interpreted as "industrial" design, and, in tune with the school's expressed commitment to functionalism, were expected to use sans-serif typefaces, while asymmetry and primary colours were also advocated. Photography and photomontage werethe preferred media for illustrations. Paper in DIN, or German Industry Standard, sizes was to be used.In the late 1920s an awareness of how visual communication was changing, particularly in the United States, prompted lectures on economics, marketing psychology and advertising science to encourage students to think about the non-visual aspects of design. This modern approach to graphic design led to exhibition design being considered a natural extension of it. Bayer was very successful in this field, devising new methods for displaying furniture and other industrial goods, as well as making original use of photography and typography.The axiom "form follows function", promoted by Gropius, was intended to show that the school would not adhere slavishly to one style. Nevertheless, it is possible to detect a common Bauhaus approach or style, and indeed its development was perhaps inevitable given the shared curriculum and close exchange between staff and students.The full implications of the Bauhaus philosophy could not be realized because of the political situation in Germany. Many of the staff emigrated, most to the United States. Among these, Moholy-Nagy became director of the unsuccessful New Bauhaus: American School of Design in Chicago in 1937-8. Over the following years Bayer, Gropius, JosefAlbers and Marcel Breuer introduced modernist design principles tothe teaching of design in America.。