You know what team if holistic aesthetic that. Free thinking. Honest revolutionary values radical fast. That is about house. After 100 years the ideals of the bar house are more relevant today than they were the spa horse for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future under the lever how we learn how do we live in truth of house and back the boat house influence is everywhere. To our house set out to formulate a language of design that was universal it would be that serves as a list that everything has an ideal high its an ideal size and thats what optimizers its utility but not in the way they want this kind of push to go out from wherever you are properly with your design a world every where youre an artist. Bound 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 hitler seized 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 can we still feel the bow house effect today. Serial production of everyday goods was a cornerstone of the val house vision a partnership between design and industry. At the furniture retailer ikea that vision seems to have become reality. If a mario god knows exactly what consumers want. How can you have your 1st home your 1st bed your 1st so far your 1st desk actually accessible at a price that you can afford that. Affordability is the linchpin of the companys business model. Ikea was founded in 1943 generations of grown up with its designs. So its like here the bow house of today is it exactly what powerhouse found to visit a century ago. We have a total that because democratic design and that 5 dimensions starting with form a connection to our house us we are talking about today is of course that form follows function it needs to be at a good quality for what its intended use we work very heavily with sustainability and well take all of those 4 together with a low price thats when you have a typical ikea product and the 5 pillars of democratic design as formulated by ikea found involve camp he wanted everyone to be able to afford well made products so did vatican all p. S. The 1st bell house director environment he proposed that art craft and industry collaborate to make Consumer Products more available to the common man. Fine was a conservative place and about how school was eventually forced to move relocated to death south which proved a far better fit. For. Weimar didnt want the bauhaus and in 1905 gropius had to look for an alternative site. Seemed to be the best option as there were plenty of opportunities for the school to flourish their. Politics and industry had vested interests in the bauhaus moving to death are so common at the time in the region was similar to Silicon Valley today if you will. End the school joined forces with a number of Industrial Partners inspired by Series Production the bauhaus began exploring synergies between arts and technology. In total bauhaus partner here and with thousands of firms to work on various projects both large and small there were very close ties between the school and industry lots of people commissioned the bar hausers to design fittings for their homes to design brochures for their companies but of course there were plenty of raised eyebrows too and eventually they had to move on once again vita had seen against the backdrop of the Great Depression the liberal Bauhaus School came under increasing pressure. In 1028 tired of facing constant hostility directed by a take or p. S. Appointed a successor with swiss architect hannah smy at the helm the bow house focused even more heavily on industry and also became more political. On this my own hut i missed our home and smile moved about house in a very socialist direction communist even. In the extremely productive 2 years that he was director this played a major role which was very different from the copious era. Hoped. The bow house set out to design and manufacture well made products for everyone. Catering to Everyday Needs took priority over artistic considerations. One void to india india into social they wanted to reach households Homes Society in general. And with products that looked completely unlike anything that had existed before else. But there was a turning point after the 1st world war so by 922. 00 or 923. 00 of the latest everyone was excited about mechanization and Industrial Production. Site there was a consensus that in the postwar era people should be modern and Welcome Technology and progress. And this should be reflected in everyday products from carpets to houses to the urban environment. And they were to do this so as to modernize the city and indeed the world was down these leon. Nike is ultimate goal is no different just like the bow house the retailer sees itself as a kind of liberal tree for a better everyday life. We want to create a better everyday life for the many people which in one way as a philosophy is very similar to the thinking of our house that design should not be for the few good products should be for the many for ikea the many are 1st and foremost consumers ultimately it wants to sell products the ballot house effect is unmistakable ikeas democratic design is by definition mass produced the retailer has adapted the core bow house philosophy to to. A consumer society. Than a smile was the bow house director for just 2 years in 1930 the town council dismissed him for communist sympathies. Along with some former students he went to the soviet union to help build the fledgling state. The 2nd world war tour germany into 2 fine marren to death south ended up in communist east germany. Just boreholes when the hidden in the nfl in there was no scope for a powerhouse to be revived in the early years of communist east germany but it was rejected as a bush while institution. As i knew. The star want to that was the attitude until well after the death of stalin basically until the early 1960 s. And the rise of architectural functionalism when urban planners began erecting prefab houses in the states on the outskirts of cities also hoped of oxen the better to at that point about house was reevaluated and once again seen as a good thing a poor city focusing on a smile his legacy was politicized design and the famous slogan folks look so spread out of the needs of the people instead of the need for luxury. Today balance designed products are expensive only the well off can afford them. Such as vilhelm vatten fads table lamp its now a classic. Bargain for the cost of if youre headed up to the bargain fell table last costs around 400. 00 euros. And recruit and waffle thats because it was designed and manufactured at. Bauhaus school before Cereal Production had really taken off the park topped. The heights even at the time the lamp was so expensive that it didnt sell very well. Thats. For conference of course. Without Series Production the vulcan fared lamp could only remain a luxury item. But the land did cross the atlantic the museum of modern art in new york city has one in its collection. In the late 1920 s. Momus founding director alfred bom helped introduce americans to the balance. Swiss born martino sheerly is moments chief curator of architecture and design of god from very early on alfred was keen on and the european of on god in general what do you especially liked about it was its push to incorporate into everyday life also its merging of art and technology and its interdisciplinary approach and its aim of making the arts nonhierarchical. I was already part took these principles these basic concepts and work them into the founding structure of the museum of modern art museum of modern art the fact. That spamhaus is the foundation of one of the worlds foremost collections. The. House stands for a very particular aesthetic but at the same time the bauhaus is quite a vague. The physical use initials of anything the council is modern is designed in the broadest sense very quickly finds itself being described as. In a rather reductive fashion. Its also a way of signaling your own stylistic preferences and perhaps thats problematic but of course its also symptomatic of an extraordinary success if you become a brand youve really made it to a market. Where all of our house is like. Virus sorrow it spreads it spreads more quickly than you realize what if nothing is interesting ever happened at the bare house but they had an amazing chemistry machinery books magazines personalities but was this all just kind of creating a kind of cult so maybe a promise is not a broad brush analogy its not about industrialization its not about clarity in the machine age and so on gropius hes a hardcore expressionist at the beginning of browse moments he becomes a kind of a manager is a management culture the spirit we are surrounded here by the effects of this virus and were in the center of management culture this is new york management central. Architecture critic monthly lives in new york but finds the glass and steel oppressive. Has the name battle house simply become a catchall label devoid of real substance. Found a house is now a brand instantly recognizable. Thats why its such an enduring favorite. Especially for connoisseurs of design and architecture like the ellis. One could also get think it was newly built people are always asking us about it still does little good and. Go beyond us holes i can be sure to find we stumbled across a house completely by chance it was appetizer genovese popping back as a bungalow in need of renovation in a prime location. And i said to my wife one of them sounds interesting lets take a look in fun. At the end as found was a piece of architectural history not even the estate agent was aware that the bungalow was the last surviving house in germany designed by powerhouse architect marcel broyard. Yet. We sensed immediately that there was Something Special about it that is what was on the bus we didnt get it hadnt been touched for years but honestly it was in terrible condition. Somehow you could still sense the spirit of boy oh boy it. Isnt for boy a position to be eaves on the ledges under the windows so that sunlight refracts below the windows and theres never any of the wrecked sunlight in the rooms wished for us of the new directors on and start on the level nothing to chance. Everything has been meticulously thought through its absolutely fascinating this is you cant help but be seduced you have to give it to heart so often respect with respect. So if you see these days you dont see many elements like these in houses anymore the cube is little can become very popular again theres lots of new houses and theyre very nice but back then they put a lot more 40 into what it would actually be like to live in these houses are living in them holes and under malls usually architects take cues from their clients but here the owners took their cues from bauhaus inspired furnishings in the late 1920 s. Marcel broyard designed this chair for the tone it company the marriage of art and industry had become reality. Doesnt. And guys are matching items of garden furniture not only comfortable they also look amazing on lots of tubular steel that is why its a sleek is issue least. Couple had previously only been familiar with broyard the furniture designer but now theyve inadvertently become guardians of his architectural legacy in 1000000000 environment. And so we went to lend to find and best sound guitar grady started to bounce from also fish. A few 50 we learnt along. The way felt it was important we understood more about it if we were going to live as most hounds. Mediately strikes you is that the functional rooms face north and the rooms you actually spend time in face of. The house has a very positive energy. And he. Of course not everyone has their own private Bauhaus Museum but they can always make a pilgrimage to the Vitro Design Museum in violet im kind. Of home. Frank gehry. And many other contemporary architects have left. The Museum Director matteo cleese architecture and design essential to the Human Experience design is an issue i know im doing on the design is basically a way of solving the problems of an opportunity to tackle everyday problems with Creative Ideas those kinds of mechanisms of furniture of those kinds of but it can also involve processes and social situation its of possession is much more of the design than making products a few mirror is no object. Design on the. Designers also address questions to do with society new materials and with things that are not always tangible and. Uses that is an understanding of design that has its roots in bobs sorts of few and as this rule was one of the 1st institutions propagating a wide ranging understanding of design i went beyond individual objects to the bo hauser design was a way of shaping society and the future and so confession. The museums collection has some 7000 exhibits including many iconic examples of International Product design. There are famous pieces by marcel broyard and of course may sound a whole. Based on the whole how to even close to a girlish if there was a very upper class glamorous side to me spend a whole skittish time going with machine modernist architecture doesnt always have to be austere its not always white walls or the simple small window frames its easy. To get one so you can be flamboyant to his muse demonstrated with his boss alone a pavilion and also with the furniture he designed for his barcelona chair exudes the same glamour and grandeur is the pavilion itself. You think that race was a straightforward person. So people who obsess about getting everything in the right place Everything Everything everything so very very directly from what seems like a human project lets figure out the dimensions of the human body its all going to system to take care of that body soon its like lets make a new body lets make architecture in front of equipment that shapes a new film and then its like lets make a superhuman. You could never imagine that such an obsessive thing from a straightforward person. Hes talking about nice found dead all as secret building as steel skeleton frames tower featuring dark glass and bronze beams built in the late 1950 s. It helped usher in a new era of sleek elegant skyscrapers. For sounds with no structural function an idea that missed found or had perfected in chicago minimalist pared down buildings often fronted by a plaster. Sort of reserve the opposite straight for dollars and made by crazy people right and preserve be able are often the people that really affect us at every ever been affected by somebody thats nice car sort of barbell house was not mars. Got 45. 8 square meters the other apartments are about the same size luxury. By not going anywhere. In france loves her compact little apartment indes out. She doesnt think its the least bit or sterile soulless. Says it is i can see every change in the weather every move through my window its lovely it was in the you usually only see windows this size in shop fronts and i have a shop window onto a park i love it here its wonderful it every time of the year especially in winter when it snows it close in here magical when theres a full moon or moonlight floods through the window its a permanent light show just for me as my kids. Designed by a 100. In 1029 the world famous gang houses were extraordinarily innovative and progressive for the time. The Affordable Housing project was a perfect example of his guiding principle that architecture has a social responsibility. Sparsely it was for all social classes merchants shoemakers metalworkers just think of how most people lived in berlin in the 1920 s. And thirtys look how light this apartment is imagine how it must have felt to people with low incomes it was sensational and just for me. And plastered brick expose lintels made of reinforced concrete aesthetically harnessed meyers design mark to break from battle house conventions one of the standout features is the commune old walkway. This is. Exuberant from a standard new building which would just have a normal hallway here youre immediately outside and that means theres a very different sense of community therell be someone outside having a smoke or sitting there and people watching you. So of course you say hello and maybe have a chat. Theres no social cohesion in germany these days theres no one like. Us with ideas a division that they know how to put into Action Congress feared. The loud been going houses with the continuation of the urban planning agenda formulated by voted call p. S. The bauhaus in death south set out to build inexpensive housing to address the shortage in the wake of the 1st world war thus far glavica on a month ago and it was a considerable challenge because gropius is Housing Estate was also an economic model he designed terrorist high. Homes that were relatively small by todays standards but he planned for lots of them like a plant and of course i made it possible for workers to live in a proper house. And whats even more extraordinary is that these houses are still lived in today that they saw to have one thing and. The next sold here is now im something of the curiosity here. At a difficult to pull me all see me as a crazy professor out of the one who did of the byelaws building. Started out as an experiment to see if it was possible it just feels like its what is it possible today in the early 21st century to live comfortably in a bomb most building which has limited space so. It is possible although it does require certain compromises. He says that the fed is in the wrong place ropey has planned it to be the other way around but his bed was only one metre by 80 bits so with a bed thats to bind to the walls a problem none of them fall by that and the other way around would be better and then you could have bedside tables on both sides of ita is these different. Plans is a die hard spouse afficionado. His home here on the estate designed by p. S. Is his castle. An annoying option im having a new garage added it was really hard to find one that suited the house but then im obsessed with boss wealth and other things here i wanted something very specific fortunately i had something to go by by myself hopefully copious