The center. You know what team if holistic if they think that. Free thinking. Honest their fiduciary fight credit card fast. Or german that is about house. After 100 years the ideals of the bond house are more relevant today than they were than the spot holes for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future. Be there how we learn we landed in 2 kids house a anchor the boat house influence is everywhere guns oh ho setanta formulate a language of design that was universal when you got this as the honest thing. That everything has an ideal high its an ideal size and thats what optimize its utility but not you know there was this kind of push to go wherever you are with your design everywhere when youre an artist. Bauhaus 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 bauhaus 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 and your 1st bed your 1st so fire your 1st test actually accessible at a price that you can afford that. Affordability is the linchpin of the companys business model. Ikea was founded. Didnt 943 generations have grown up with its designs. So its like here the bow house of today is it exactly what house found. Visit to a century ago. We have a tone of that because a democratic design and 5 dimensions starting with form a connection to our house us we are talking about today is of course that form follows function to be at a good quality for what its intended use we work very heavily with sustainability and well take all of those for together with a low price thats when you have a typical product. The 5 pillars of democratic design thats formulated by ikea founder involved camp he wanted everyone to be able to afford well made products so did vatican the 1st about house director environment he proposed that art craft and industry collaborate to make Consumer Products more available to the common man. Was a conservative place and the Bauhaus School was eventually forced to move relocated to death south which proved a far better if it. Didnt want the bar house and in 1905 gropius her to look for an alternative site. Seemed to be the best option. There were plenty of opportunities for the school to flourish their. Politics and industry had vested interests in the bar house moving to decimal. The common at the time of the region was similar to Silicon Valley today if you will. The school joined forces with a number of Industrial Partners inspired by Series Production the battle house began exploring synergies between arts and technology. It does pass you and i in total bauhaus partner here and just how with thousands of firms to work on various projects both large and small there were very close ties between the school and industry and lots of people commissioned the bow 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 1928 tired of facing constant hostility directed to call p. S. I appointed a successor with swiss architect tanous my at the helm the bow house focused even more heavily on industry and also became more political. On this my own hut on the stockhausen 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 of the board all by 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 voted to in the holes into your voice into social they wanted to reach households Homes Society in general. And with products that looked completely unlike anything that had existed before else. There was a turning point after the 1st world war by 922 or 923 of the latest everyone was excited about mechanization and. Industrial production down the sides 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 holes and they were to do this so as to modernize the city and indeed the world was down these leon. My kids ultimate goal is no different just like the bauhaus the retailer sees itself as a kind of look for a 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 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 bell house effect is unmistakable ikeas democratic design is by definition mass produced the retailer has adapted the core bauhaus philosophy to todays consumer society. Can 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. When the hidden in the nfl in there was no scope for our house to be revived in the early years of communist east germany but it was rejected as a bush while institution. I was i knew. The stuff that was the attitude until well after the death. Stollen 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 hope they are the facts in the letter to at that point about house was reevaluated and once again seen as a good thing paul city focusing on a smile is legacy was politicized design and the famous slogan folks bedard looks suspect after the needs of the people instead of the need for luxury. Today bally house designed products are expensive only the well off can afford them. Such as vilhelm vatten fed table lamp its now a classic. Vying for acknowledged across the pond if your hand up to the bargain fell table land costs around 400. 00 euros. And recruit and waffle thats because it was designed and manufactured at the bow her school before Cereal Production had really taken off the park topped. The heights even at the time of our going felled lamp was so expensive that it didnt sell very well. Thats among. The hottest and the hope for coffin socalled. Without Series Production the vulcan fad 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. Moments founding director alfred barr helped introduce americans to the bounce. Swiss born martino sheerly is moments chief curator of architecture and design. From very early on alfred was keen on and the european of wrong god in general what do you especially liked about it was its push to incorporate it into everyday life also its merging of art and technology and its interdisciplinary approach and its aim of making the arts nonhierarchical koons the 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 direct. House serves as the foundation of one of the worlds foremost collections. The spouse the baja stands for a very particular aesthetic but at the same time the bauhaus is quite a vague. Before. Anything that counters modern is designed in the broadest sense very quickly finds itself being described as bauhaus in a rather reductive fashion. Its also a way of signaling your own stylistic preferences 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. In the. World liberal 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 brown house is not about rush anality its not about industrialization its not about clarity in the machine age and so on gropius hes a hardcore expressionists at the beginning of grouse moments he becomes a kind of a manager is it 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 mark wakely lives in new york but finds the glass and steel oppressive. Has the same battle how simply become a catch old label devoid of real substance. Balance is now a brand instantly recognizable. Thats why its such an enduring favorite. Especially for connoisseurs of design and architecture like the alice. In one could get think it was newly built people are always asking us about it still stuff that will. Go beyond us holes i can be sure to find we stumbled across the house completely by chance it was appetizer genovese bottom bank 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. What the ellis found was a piece of architectural history even the estate agent was aware that the bungalow was the last surviving house in germany designed by powerhouse architect marcel broyard. We sensed a major plea that there was Something Special about it that is what was on the bus with him it hadnt been touched for years and honestly it was in terrible condition 1st edition to shunt mode somehow you could still sense the spirit of boy oh boy. Isnt doc for a boy of visitation the eaves and 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 dose 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 and you have to give it to him hats off respect of respect. So if you see these days you dont see many elements like these in houses anymore the cube is lot has become very popular again theres lots of new houses and theyre very nice but back then they put a lot more forth 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. Gun isnt matching items of garden furniture theyre not only comfortable they also look amazing lots of tubular steel that is why its a sleek is issue least the couple had previously only been familiar with broyard the furniture designer but now theyve inadvertently become guardians of his architectural legacy in bell union by my home and so we went to lend to fine mom and dad sound guitar and really started to bounce from also fish. If you shift to we learnt along. The way felt it was important we understood more about it if we were going to live as most hounds me at the. Media to strike syria is that the functional real face north and the rooms he actually spent 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 piece architecture and design essential to the human experience. Is an issue i dont have time to. Design is basically a way of solving a problem thats probably an opportunity to tackle everyday problems with Creative Ideas those kinds of 2nd involve furniture of those kinds of but it can also involve processes and social situation of possession is much more to design than making products a few mirror is no object. Design a. Designer is also address questions to do with society new materials and with things that are not always tangible and well and does this that is an understanding of design that has its roots in bobs sorts of few in those schools one of the 1st institutions propagating a wide ranging understanding of the assigned i went beyond individual objects to the bo hauser design was a way of shaping society and the future and so confessed on. 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 me sand and whole mr know how to use a ghost girlish. There was a very upper class glamorous side to me stranded on a skittish diamond in listenership modern stock an actor doesnt always have to be austere its not always white walls or the simple small window frames its easy on him and he 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 as the pavilion itself. I do think that race was a straight forward 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 then its like lets make a superhuman. You could never imagine that such an obsessive boring thing from a straightforward person. Hes talking about nice found devil is seagram building a steel skeleton framed 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 silence with no structural function an idea that miss fonda gore had perfected in chicago minimalist pared down buildings often fronted by a plan as a. Sort of reserve officer straight for dollars and made by crazy people write in cursive you all are from the people that really affect us as have we ever been referred to by somebody thats mars bar sort of barbell house was not mars. But got 45. 8 square meters the other apartments are about the same size luxury. Im not going anywhere. In france loves her compact little apartment in death south. She doesnt think its the least bit all sterile soulless. Zizi and you this i can see every change in the weather every move through my windows 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 windows its a prominent light show just for me as my kids. Designed by one. 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 from all social classes merchants shoemakers metalworkers just think of how most people lived in berlin in the 1920 s. And thirtys and look how light this apartment is imagine how it must have felt to people with low incomes it was sensational and just for me. Im plastered brick expose lintels made of reinforced concrete a statically harness meyers design mark to break from house conventions one of the standout features is the commune old walkway. Guns are different 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 chance of. This theres no social cohesion in germany these days theres no one like. Us with ideas and a vision that they know how to put into Action Congress fear. The loud been going houses with the continuation of the urban planning agenda formulated by via to call p. S. The bell house 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 course. 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 is that they thought about one thing and. The slick sold here does numb something of the curiosity here. They dont want of it to pull they all see me as a crazy professor at the other one who did of the dollars building. Started out as an experiment to see if it was possible to get just what is it possible today in the early 21st century to live comfortably in a boss building which has limited space so. It is possible although it does require certain compromises. Is that the fed is in the wrong place from coal gropius planned it to be the other way around but his bed was only one meter by 80 that i get so with a bed thats 2 by 2 the walls are problems in an oven 4 by then the other way around would be better and then you could have bedside tables on both sides of either is the good. Plan so no one is a die hard power house afficionado. His home here on the estate designed by the table p. S. Is his castle. And 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 well thought through zeerust i wanted something very specific an