You know what team if holistic aesthetic that. Free thinking or to. Be honest the evolutionary value critical fast. That is our house. After 100 years the ideals of the bar house are more relevant today than they were that the horse for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future under the view that how we learn we learn to do is to give house back the bell house influence is everywhere guns to our house set out to formulate a language of design that was universal. As a listing that everything has an ideal high its an ideal size and thats what optimize is its utility but not in the way they want this kind of push to go out from wherever your procmail are with your design in a world everywhere where youre an artist. Bell 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 down and design were explored and developed here. When hitler seized power and force 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 that down house vision a partnership between design and industry. At the furniture retailer ikea that vision seems to have become reality. Even my real 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 is ikea the bow house of today is it exactly what bauhaus found. Visit just century ago. We have a tone of that because a 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. The 5 pillars of democratic design as formulated by ikea founder involved 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. Find was a conservative place and about how school was eventually forced to move relocated to desks out which proved a far better if it. Didnt want to buy a house and in 1905 gropius had to look for an alternative site. Seem to be the best option. 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. In death out the school joined forces with a number of Industrial Partners inspired by Series Production the bauhaus began exploring synergies between arts and technology. Does pass and in total bauhaus partner here in death 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 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 by. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression the liberal Bauhaus School came under increasing pressure. In 1928 tired of facing constant hostility directed. 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. My own hut honey smile moved the bauhaus 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. 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 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 cleek 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. 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 young. Nike is the 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 that 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 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 battle house philosophy to to. A 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 to find mar and death south ended up in communist east germany. Boreholes 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. As i knew. The star world 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 hope. That at some point down house was reevaluated and once again seen as a good thing if the same smile is legacy was politicized design and the famous slogan folks that looks are spread out of 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. If your hand out the bargain felt table lamp that cost around 400. 00 euros. And recruit and was 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. Without Series Production in the vulcan faired 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. Momos founding director alfred bach 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 are wrong god in general what do you especially liked about bauhaus was its push to incorporate art into everyday life to put also its merging of art and technology and its interdisciplinary approach and its aim of making the art nonhierarchical couldnt stay. 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 our 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. The physical initials of anything that counters modern is designed in the broadest sense very quickly finds itself being described as bar house in a rather reductive fashion gave my 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 onto a market. Where a liberal has worked. Virus sorrow it spreads it spreads more quickly than you realize what if nothing is interesting ever happened at the house but they had an amazing publicity machinery books magazines personalities but was this all just kind of creating a kind of cult or maybe a process not a broad brush analogy is not about industrialization its not about clarity in the machine age and so on brokers hes a hardcore expressionist at the beginning of brown house moments he becomes a kind of a manager is a management culture of 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 month likely lives in new york but finds the glass and steel oppressive. Has the name battle house simply become a cat chill label devoid of real substance. Found house is now a brand instantly recognizable. Thats why its such an enduring favorite. Especially for connoisseurs of design and architecture like the alice. One could all think it was newly built people are always asking us about it it still does little good and. Beyond us holes i can be sure to find we stumbled across the house completely by chance it was appetizer genovese bottom bank i was a bungalow in need of renovation in a prime location. And i said to my wife one of an 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 bundle was the last surviving house in. Gemini designed by powerhouse architect marcel broyard. We sensed a major atlee that there was Something Special about it that is what was on the list we didnt get it hadnt been touched for years but honestly it was in terrible condition done tomorrow somehow you could still sense the spirit of boy boy. Is a force for boy opposition to 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 we thought us of the unity of actors 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 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 thought into what it would actually be like to live in these houses leave them in their holes and under malas 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 hes a positive guy isnt matching items of garden furniture theyre not only comfortable and also look amazing on lots of tubular steel that is why its very sleek least the little had previously only been familiar with broyard the furniture. Designer but now theyve inadvertently become guardians of his architectural legacy in 1000000000 environment and in debt so almost so we went to lend to fine mom and dad sound guitar grady started to bounce from also fish guns and balls he was a few shifty we learnt along. This wall and we felt it was important we understood more about it if we were going to live as mr hounds me it would have fished in. Some house of him and would immediately strike syria is that the functional rooms face north and the rooms he actually spent time in face south. Says 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 v. Try Design Museum in violet im high. Hat saw going to mail home. Frank gehry. And many other contemporary architects have left their mark here. To Museum Director my teo cleese architecture and design essential to the Human Experience design is an issue i know that im game. Design is basically a way of solving a problem thats probably an opportunity to tackle everyday problems with Creative Ideas thats come to shove and that can involve furniture of those kinds of but it can also involve processes in social situation its in a position as much more to design than making products a few mirror is no object to strive to. Design a. Designer is also address question has to do with society or a new materials and with things that are not always tangible. President. Jesus thats our understanding of design it has its roots in bobs sorts a few in those schools one of the 1st institutions propagating a wide ranging understanding of the assigned i went beyond individual objects to the bone house the 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 at least on the whole how to even off the coast. There was a very upper class glamorous side to me stranded on a skittish signed modernist architecture doesnt always have to be austere design its not always white walls or the simple small window frames it is impossible not to miss 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. I 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 as a system to take care of that body soon its like lets make a new body which makes architecture in front of equipment that shapes a new film and then its like lets make a superhuman. You could never imagine at such an obsessive building came from a straightforward person. Hes talking about means found at all is secret building a steel scallop. Unframed tower featuring dark glass and bronze beams built in the late 1950 s. It helped usher in a new era of sleek elegant skyscrapers. The sounds with no structural function an idea that meets found or had perfected in chicago minimalist pared down buildings often fronted by a plaster. Sort of reserve the opposite straightforward programs are made by crazy people right and preserve the war effort in the big bird really affect us or have we ever been referred to by somebody thats not as our sort of barbell house was not mars. Ive got 45. 8 square meters the other apartments are about the same size luxury. Line not going anywhere. Cast in france loves her compact little apartment in debt out. She doesnt think its the least bit all sterile soulless. Says it is i can see every change in the weather every move through my window its a lovely course in the you usually only see windows this size in shop fronts and i have a shop window onto a park i love it 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 flood through the window its a permanent light show just for me as my. Designed by one this my 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. Protection has a social responsibility. Spot so it was for all social classes merchants shoemakers Metal Workers just think of how most people lived in berlin in the 1920 s. And thirtys. Lights this apartment is the imagine how it must have felt to people with low incomes it was sensational and just for me. Unplanted brick expose lintels made of reinforced concrete aesthetically harnessed meyers design mark to break from bell house conventions one of the standout features is the commune old walkway. 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 chat. 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 feared. The loud been going houses with the continuation of the urban planning agenda formulated by voted call p. S. The bow house in death south set out to build inexpensive housing to address the shortage in the wake of the 1st world war. On a manic and it was a considerable challenge because gropius is Housing Estate was also an economic model he designed terrorist homes that were relatively small by todays standards but he planned for lots of them like a plant and. 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 thought about one thing and. The next old here does now im something of the curiosity here. They dont want to foot the bill they all see me as a crazy professor out of the one who did up the bronze building. Started out as an experiment to see if it was possible. Why 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. He says that the fed is in the wrong place gropius planned it to be the other way around but his bed was only one meter by 80 bit so with a bed thats to bind to the walls a problem none of unfold by then the other way around would be better and then you could have bedside tables on both sides if they slid. Is a die hard balance afficionado. His home here on the estate designed by if i take all 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 bos well one of the