You know what teeth wholistic aesthetic that. Free thinking or turkish honest their fiduciary values could occur fast. German that is about house. After 100 years the ideals of the bond house are more relevant today than they were that the spa hosts for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future and of its who come from the dead how can we learn. About house back the boat house influence is everywhere. Set out to formulate a language of design that was universal when it was there is as the understanding that everything has an ideal high its an ideal size and thats what optimize is its utility but not skill can. You know there was this kind of push to go where were your procmail or were your designer we were youre an artist. Belle house is a legend the brilliance of the Bauhaus School remains undiminished even today. Even though its existence was short lived it continues to shape the world we live in. New approaches to education and training architecture painting dance and design were explored and developed here. When hit close east power and forced the school to shut down its artists architects and visionaries emigrated fanning out and spreading the bow house doctrine around the world. So what exactly nice behind the engineering appeal of battle house. Of british furniture designer with nigerian roots in laurie lives in london his fascination with chavez places him firmly in the bowels tradition he trolls the city in search of inspiration. Points on the board on the topic of the boss or the window in london or always it is always chairs everywhere though you dont want to compare the market share there or other yet so im just always looking around nor is there inquisitive to kind of see whats around you know and then one farther to the you never know what you have in the us the thats the beauty afford to. Tinker doesnt find anything that strikes his fancy on the street. So he tries his luck in the charity shop ringback. But quickly. So there was. This quite cool. You know the 1st person to source the can scene which. And then 2nd would be kind of having the power ball in my head so having the narrative of the chair this chair this chair is in the field 1453. 00 is one of the chairs and its not its not so its not exactly its the thing to fiftys sixtys and i. Think there is john to pieces that have a story to tell he likes to work in she received me. So a lot of pieces with cards so this is this is. Them you know kind of also you know like the way they could have used different materials so theyre from have so i was in college pilots for that so speak to me because there is a look at the trauma section so the kind of the. In the jungles maybe in the walls it could be a line in you know maybe this could be green i remember just one sprinkle of the concert where i would see in movies you know these these these would line. And also this cover might be with the Musical Instrument with a guitar a sort of the most. Intuitive design that was a bedrock principle of the battle house. The art School Environment germany was founded in 1919 by architect called p. S. He was joined there by many of the most venerated artists of the time. After the ordeal of the 1st world war they were eager to remake the world from the ground up. This called for a new breed of industrial designer gropius believed a new forms of training a Foundation Course was compulsory for all students. It taught basic techniques of arts and craftsmanship. And it was developed by swiss painter your highness he encouraged students to work in she would cheerfully and experiment with forms colors and materials. The characteristic colors and forms of the bow house influenced artists such as paul clay and vassili kandinsky. The primary colors red yellow and blue and the geometrical forms of the square triangle and circle have become the trademark of the bauhaus. Theres an abundance of form and color in the u. K. Laurie studio in london. Was for this purpose on the Furniture University so over the Green Furniture making an approach design you kind of teach your so a lot of the processes i could go in on and it was more for school so lots of history. Of the kind of history of design of graffiti there was a lot of making which was showing. Carpentry set design on ceramics workshops formed the cornerstone of practical training at the bow house school which has been right up to st chads tells part of his story. She understood why my parents love to nigeria and what it meant to africa and be a black british you know in london and how powerful it was and how you know but i i feel like a power because you know everyone is is mountain is british so what i wanted to do was retell my narrative using the anteroom parables. In these sort of thing there was an interesting area which they found out the converse of if it was actually his arm but it was israel market it was a study that. By how school and i think it for me is for the best stuff sort of scene actually because it was just mind blowing and just seen them just just not knowing that existed in nigeria i think they would just think about race me smallish me happy and if you look at my screen when i post this image of the northeast for images people just past. Ringback the university of campus in nigeria was designed in the 1960 s. By bell house when she went snobbish iran. Africa spade shaped and been shaped by ballet. House the chauffeur look at the chair complete with looks looking for can. Share with the media influences from africa in this p. C. This is indeed the african chair a collaborative effort by to bow house masters design a marcel broyard and textile artist contested so. The good so called earth could share it this year i mean without even knowing. A lot of most oprahs role and i think ill copy in one of this story my studio. Could be really you know as i see it you know i put it in a charity shop. In chick. Who just only allowed this visual to survive from more than 60 years millions of this kind of bamboo this is really nice this is a ridiculous zine. It was in 1925 once the school relocated to death that bow house started to become more widely known. From his glass fronted office overlooked the school premises. Nothing escaped him including all the student goings on in the workshop next door. The students are now long gone today cloudy of heaven is the director of the powerhouse decile foundation. To buy a house was pretty crazy it has to be said when you look at the bar House Building you can see how radical it was and then there were all these girls with short hair a working together with boys simply 50 meters and all very casual it was quite a provocation. It didnt get us passions up over qatif. The bow house all to create an impression of transparency and airy radiance space. Goes. Gropius was very aware that a new era had dawned and that a new era called for new forms and new solutions for living on. This. On he saw this reflected in every aspect of industry but not really in architecture at her death and that i could take to or not mistaken for at least busy in. The new clear language of forms was put into practice in the nearby masters houses to call b. S. Designed these homes for the ballot house teachers and their families construction began in 1925. The homes of copious alas low mccoy a notch were destroyed in the 2nd world war into so. As in foreseen they were rebuilt but not so much reconstructed as 3 intact potatoes. Just laugh nikolai designed the interior of the mohawk a notch house. While in office as an artist noir knowledge was very interested in light so i made light a central part of my design and figured out a way to make it an element of the visitors experience and one way to draw attention to light is to refract it at least 2 of which the pressure. I made the surface of the artefact the building my playing field. Kept anybody i wanted to work with what was already that i also wanted to bring up the craftsmanship that played such a key role at about house so the 2 were on this last ring was as a very simple artisanal activity so i decided on 4 types of plaster white powder marble with various grain sizes. With variations in granularity and the way that light strikes the walls create shadow plays optician shuttle shmita. Those horses are in the houses crying out to be photographed. Skipped just as there is no one about rose it was very diverse there was a bit of everything but it had claimed it had lemme meyer who had a staunch lead socialist agenda. You see on the whole he wanted nothing to do with ideology and was on a quest for pure form of what it was i was get it have people who introduced compulsory yoga classes your god whats truly fascinating is of course what happens when a Design Movement becomes a universal concept when it becomes life force one divas. In japan quality design traditionally plays a big part in daily life the aesthetic sensibility and the striving for clarity and simplicity underpinning Japanese Culture have much in common with the visual language of bauhaus and indeed partly inspired it. I went to tokyo is one of the worlds knowledge is metropolitan areas housing is expensive and in short supply. Me osun am a belongs to a young generation of japanese architects interested in new housing concepts. You can never see in side down there and also. They closed the radiation isolated situation theyve never invite the people and friends or even how many they dont know it makes the job theyre doing. Is seeking an entirely new approach 2. Ok i have to change my mind are there they go to read the city asking different way of living in tokyo so i propose a. Completely different way from one room apartment in told you. The highlights she familys Housing Solution is radical by japanese standards the project was started by can they hire shes wife before the couple got married. d the house was a very small studio terry tweener is trying to raise the rates for everything path for a show or to change that room everything was not separate so she was living that as you know of as often as people do. She she likes cooking and there. You want to read that. To watch t. V. So that she can kind of do that so when we find this one we have about 20 places to do that but its too big for her alone so maybe we wait to do some shows. The shared house for people who arent necessarily old family into a willing to redefine their relationships to one another 2. Medio is converting the old house into a house for 7 people a home like this would be on the phone to call for a family its meant no realisation of a good movie and its just in new ways you know its going to land and people doesnt have almost killed so many people doesnt like in no way to lie there and go there and they need to do something to. Me oh took meticulous measurements so as to use the space as efficiently as possible. The small bedrooms on the upper floor a separated by and lights and every hallway. Bridge between the private and the shared spaces. Using their steps they could be seen here but the things so that they. Individually are room 6. The rooms the small while the shared areas are spacious the multipurpose living room is where residents and friends can come together in a city thats becoming increasingly anonymous the house is a small pocket of community. Meo and her husband run a successful architecture firm. And shes a big fan of german bauhaus. Most. Arc back from my eyes thanks to them. Its not their. Problem. He makes it very simple and the looks very easy but its not and is like a relationship outside the room when the room and the foreign into it to relate it all together and this is kind of my. Bow house has close ties to japan from the outset this house was built in the 1930 s. By you well yeah you studied at the bell house school. In 1954 voted call p. S. Visited the brand new coup was our Design School in tokyo writing in the guest book here i have found genuine bauhaus spirit. In the work meo often refers to this weighty manual compiled by noise another bauhaus graduate. d the 1st edition of his architects data is in. The current edition of this International Bestseller was updated by architects. As you start planning a new project you reach for your norfolk its currently in its 42nd editions 100 published all over the world like. It. Its a reference but for special requirements in Building Design and Site Planning from the best height for a door handle to the angle of a body leaning back in a chat to compile these norms knowing that carried out detailed measurements of the human body in daily activities and its use of space. Differ this one does mention the problem wasnt the 1st measure daily. But the radical approach are of relating architectures space and Spatial Relationships to such measurements and the radical extrapolation of space allocation and type biology from these relationships that was the cornerstone of us. As well as. The book was finally published 3 years after the bell house was shut down by the nazis but the efficiency of ny fax manual suited the totalitarian system and the nazis coopted it for their own purposes. After the war with its merits could once again speak for themselves it became a bestseller. Nowadays noisettes manual can be found in architecture firms all over the world. But. One space is needed for an elevator how much space do you need in a kitchen and industrial kitchen canteens what size should something be to work well in its environment. Lets just say yes because i only. Know like example of this. If you flip this furcal we can find a way of a sick measurement no letter we have to know but we cant put everything into my brain so its a part of our way. Of measuring people activities things rationality and detail as tools for optimizing daily life and use of space play marks of the bauhaus code that carried us far as japan. The battle house archive in berlin designed by none other than bauhaus found p. S. Himself. Director anna meller yogi is the guardian of his legacy one boy to initiate climb climb the hunt well it wasnt the ordinary old school craft person training. The name was to train a new type of artist. The industrial designer who could wear all hats so im going to list a generalist tech who could be an architect or a topol grapher or a painter a sculptor a photographer. I am an industrial designer who represented the universal. Through the only real solution and the manifesto of the weimar state our house was published in april 19th 19 architects sculptors painters we must all turn to the crafts together let us can see even create the new building of the future thats my mission. What theyve wanted to avoid was a drifting apart art on one side art for arts sake salon art and on the other side the more downmarket applied art that is craft. Koonce to this 100 hour. The bow house code blurred the distinction between fine art and applied arts. Then and now the starting point is always the material. That is about 25 percent each of feldspar and courts and 50 percent kalen. Amazing how this dust can turn into something with so much ball. Author was then somehow elastic to imagine it being poor molded its texture is so great because his guns tell you how the. Palin based Design Collective new tendency is in demand the team of graduates of the Powerhouse University environment. They design Industrial Products for everyday use in the house tradition functional and no frills. The firm is teaming up with one of germanys oldest Manufacturing Companies the royal porcelain factory k. P. N. Is supplied oppression kings with burlington porcelain. And why do we mainly manufacture in germany. On the one hand because of the tradition of craftsmanship but also because of the convenience the fact that we can visit the factories for this thats very exciting for us designers it reminds us of the craftsmanship involved and broadens our minds. Off. The cake pms porcelain is all hand crafted. Around insists that the balance environment began designing simple modern porcelain tableware for the cake pm in 1929. The new tendency is marking the 100th anniversary of by collaborating with the k pm on a commemorative plates. But theyre not and as soon as you start its already gone you can see how fast its turning its a question of seconds. Today the team representing their ideas to the k. P. N. Head. Design now. When i look at it from the front theres a lovely play of light and shadow. Uses the industrial and construct of a suspect is a great contrast to the delicate pulses and we find that contrasts very intriguing from. Reminds me of bauhaus photography the light in shadow and other negative space. If we explore these elements with our designs to start off into a. New tendency designs practical high quality products theyre not interested in mass production. But theyre kind of craftsmanship has a price one that not everyone can afford business though is thriving. Competent or not so were completely international we got a lot of inquiries from the u. S. And england but also south korea and japan from people with a similar sense of aesthetics lloyd continued synth. In keeping with the bell house spirit a good product is a fusion of skilled craftsmanship and artistic vision. And the s. And essential part of the bauhaus appeal is that goal thius was keen on the idea of synergy. Vision thats become reality foundries between creative disciplines are increasingly blurred. And 1st i need a vacuum. The material softens and starts to melt it melts very fast and then it gets smooth. Finished. The results around expected. Conducting research for the car industry. No shes preparing for her graduation show she studies Fashion Design in berlin. This is my most basic idea was to see if i could produce a collection without actually sewing anything and instead use different production methods. So i worked a lot with lasers and glue to explore the alternatives to see how i could make clothes production no modern fundies we met and i wanted to replace man made with machine made machine made. Us architect well i have a background in architecture perhaps thats why i tend to focus more on production methods used in industry and industrial design. Very ideological battle house principle is always my starting point when i begin a new project the principle of function 1st. And so forth and also standardize ation the idea that everything has an ideal height and ideal size in order to optimize its utility so i fit in mentioning that it has been not infinite im really intrigued by the idea that rather than simply buying an item of clothing that you could buy cat or computer aided design data that you get your data go to. Workstation and a machine makes the clothes for you and the child oh this design is based on motorbike trounces made from an upholstery fabric commonly used in the car industry but isnt there such a thing as excessive optimization a complete c. N. D. Says i once had to apply and overcomplicated process of suppose that optimization to clothing. As it seems a humorous comment on this trend its not meant to be taken seriously as the big event the catwalk show in the. Minute kit full sorry inevitable. And well the trances fit it was to get that. It. Would be if it was a 3 way i guess that it would be nice just long. Distance and thats cool. But i have to wait theyre taking a 1st look you. May think is it your turn. Then go cash his collection is about to make its debut. After months of hard graduation in her pockets she can finally relax and enjoy the moment. Fashion design that straddles architecture and Technology Analog and digital. Across disciplinary approach is quintessentially about house. Forks one of the main reasons for the success of our house was that the movement was brave enough to bring together very different Creative Minds when you take a look at who touched their lives they dont seem to have anything in common creatively and they were very different characters and for sheena to correct here or not i think their gropius realized that only diversity could produce answers to the questions raised by the new era of these annoyance. This architectural icon in spain is a perfect distillation of that collaborative spirit the reconstructed barcelona pavilion originally designed for the 1929 International Exposition by meese found the surge director of the Bauhaus School the architecture and the interior blend seamlessly the furnishings which include the famous barcelona chair with co designed by miss founder and powerhouse master. The creative scope of the Bauhaus School was a unique a printing and advertising workshop opened in deaths out in 1925. The workshops head was how about buyer who designed the new type faces that would help define the bell house style he was a pioneer of what we now call corporate design. When among the capital of jordan decided it needed its own branding it hired Graphic Design a young gal who specializes in type faces. It was a pretty daunting task. Its 1st came to a model in 2004. As a young student and then i came back in 2008 to develop a typeface for a month and arabic and latin type design for the greater amman minister polity disability it was my Graphic Design graduation project at the box Office University environment its in by my. Son is one of the 1st type faces that bridges the gap between western and arab farms designed by about house graduates the amash 1st sufi and scottish its here but these days youll see a man type face on every street sign on public transport on public websites and official printed material that siphon off still until i was very fortunate to be able to help find the urban landscape especially with visual identity of the city just as of this visit nationals business to dish that. The middle eastern city is also home to some intriguing modernist architecture albeit a little hit no way and more often than not some more. Whereas the amount from some place Cultural Center its impossible to overlook. The farmers the supplemental here if i was happy to see it in such a prominent position in the city was rebranding itself but the result was a disaster will fill. Up you with a dime for how much you pay ins my type designer sold i wasnt supposed to be like this is the equivalent of taking a painting or a photo and then stretching it its really distorted thats how they want this whats out. Thats what thats his business from i mention not everyone is thrilled to see a foreigner coming along and getting this drop. In the summer and so in the arab world the main house sort of typeface designer of beirut and cairo. Among those are very young in the city its only 100 years old and the field just doesnt exist here so theres a prophesy. Anyway designing the font with my own idea is a shift soapstar. Does eastern and to me this is a lovely use of ramadan time in arabic script in bold but we are to. Visit one country about that and we will start on the rough edges i built into the design were inspired by a certain atmosphere in the city. And again this. Is a kind of rawness. Of polish that i want to define to express. That there are lots of people here do apparently agree that the font captures the mood of their city rushed up. The bow housecoat a philosophy developed at a small German Art School and adopted across the world. A manual for structuring daily life based on principles of architecture and design an Interdisciplinary School with radical new teaching methods that fostered freedom and experimentation a school that pioneered the fusion of fine arts and craft. After years of extraordinary creativity the bauhaus had moved to berlin and was forced to close down under pressure from the nazis once a guy on the rise across 933. 00 was the end of the road the bow house was founded environment as a state subsidized school thats why it was called the weimar state house holds water just how it was a Municipal Institution and timberland it was a private institution financed primarily out of nice fund always own pocket. Also forced to close its break up helped it evolve into a global movement. Bass player one from guns and not some from the outset the bell house was very International Thanks to its International Connections it wasnt all that hard for the bow hausers to disperse around the world after the schools closure of a tie and. The bell House Movement also left its mark in television. Between 1921940 some 4000 buildings built in the modern style were erected in the city center. In 2003 the white city was made to unesco world Cultural Heritage sites. The white city was not the work of architects who had studied with magic or p. S. And other european architects. In the 1930 s. Many jews fledged growing antisemitism in europe and emigrated to palestine there they contributed to the making of a new society these days many of the buildings have fallen into disrepair the paint is peeling and the facades crumbling. However the unesco world Cultural Heritage status has helped raise awareness of these buildings historic value. The max leaving house built in 1986 is undergoing an extensive restoration and will soon be opening as a heritage center. Israeli german architecture ron ron is Program Director of the White City Center shes well aware what a treasure it is. You want to shine us lets see what original features from germany we have here actually lets look at this this is the handle when we dismantled the door handles and cleaned them up we saw that they had stamps from the Company Deputy h. A g c you can just about see it we did some research and found out that they really were made by the company that manufactured the gropius handles so for the bauhaus its the company was called loewy there are all sorts of treasures like that here you know. This is the centerpiece of the so its interesting in architecture how many german words hebrew uses. We say cant for cantor or edge cant come to the book and circle for cycle or a base cross puts and shine put scratchcard stone plaster we say she wished the german word for planes and its funny listening to jewish and arab construction workers on the building site theyre like hey moshe kratz puts it goes to show how much expertise was brought here in the 1930 s. Not just materials but skills newer. Than an artist. Siobhan is meeting up with should i be to a she who gives tours of the white city shes an expert on the architects who gave televisa even its distinctive look. Look youll see said because ive been done with this angle is in. That building is the statue that people walk and dance my arm also has the Ticket Office who can look at the game with lots of ok and yes and. Thats if theyre not so important but we have to fix. Behavior of their hands of the haitian. Gropius his successor fervently believed in design for the people what became of that goal is now house design as functional as it set out to be is bauhaus nowadays just a brand. Find out in the 2nd episode of our series down house while the f. X. Crew have throughout. Its 50 years since the moon landing. A celestial body and its power of attraction. d and the. Cosmic churning through space time. d 30 minutes. On d. W. Suppose and now im going affectionately agent but as affectionately as you can. Remember from tim in the middle of his Election Campaign in the year 2000 but documentary was filmed for russian television. To turn the camera back on of course the film secretly chronicled a power grab that actually everything was precisely planned instruction. Featuring top supporting roles to the freedom of russia. And featuring a lead role like youve never seen before. The other mere fight a marriage to the ends justify the means. To jins witnesses starts december 13th on g. W. This is d w news live from the berlin one year of anger in the streets of france demonstrations across the country marked the anniversary of the Yellow Vest Movement least respond with Water Cannons and tear gas as fires and violence there and parents also coming up germanys green wave the green party is surging in the polls thanks in part to its popular pair of the top and the greens eventually step into the ugly americal ships. And also in the shall we go to west africa to take a look at the