Archived Everyone dislikes modernist architecture (currentaffairs.org)
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Archived Everyone dislikes modernist architecture (currentaffairs.org)
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[–] El_Syd 1 point 7 points 8 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.
[–] puggy 0 points 2 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.
[–] El_Syd 0 points 1 point 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?
[–] bosunmoon ago
There were plenty of other bauhaus educated architects that made beautiful modern homes.