You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

1
7

[–] El_Syd 1 point 7 points (+8|-1) ago 

EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.

On 16 October 1923, Gropius married Ilse (later Ise) Frank; they remained together until his death in 1969. Ise Frank was Jewish.

0
2

[–] puggy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The late great Tom Wolfe wrote a short but important book about it called "From Bauhaus to Our House". Here is a summary. He argues that Frank Lloyd Wright was the single important architect of that era who wasn't trying to create Marxist cells.

Wolfe argued that the unique tradition of the Bauhaus was distinctly ideological and that its orientation was Marxist. Thus, the Bauhaus architects, in seeking the creation of a Marxist world, believed themselves to be seeking the purest and most perfect of goals—the development of proletarian, or worker, housing. They were, according to Wolfe, attempting to obliterate the bourgeois world and replace it with a world of their own creation.

0
1

[–] El_Syd 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Bauhaus was instituted in Weimar during the Weimar republic. What else do you need to know to understand it was trash?

0
0

[–] bosunmoon ago 

There were plenty of other bauhaus educated architects that made beautiful modern homes.