This presentation contains the detailed information about Bauhaus and Bauhaus architecture.

1. BAUHAUS
PRESENTED BY-
ANANYA SREYANSRI NANDA
3RD YEAR, B.ARCH

2. ARCHITECT
1. AR. Walter Gropius designed this iconic
building.
2. He was a pioneer of modern
architecture.
3. He studied architecture in Munich yet
didn’t receive any degree.
4. He was a German architect.
5. He believed in the famous saying , ’form
follows function’.
6. He had a straight forward design
approach.

3. FORM FOLLOW FUNCTION
AR. Walter Gropius believed in this famous saying.
Characteristics –
a. Flat roofs
b. Colors used- white , black , grey or beige
c. Functional
d. Smooth facades
e. Cubic shapes
f. Open floor plans

4. BAUHAUS
 Designed by famous German architect AR. Walter Gropius along with
Adolf Meyer.
 Basically Bauhaus was an art and crafts school in Germany.
 In German , Bauhaus meant ‘house of construction’.
 Bauhaus was so designed not to isolate the functions from each
other and also had a separation between them.
 The whole building had a straight forward design approach.

6. BAUHAUS
PLAN-
 The whole building was made of glass windows.
 The glass curtain wall was used here.
 The building had a light color which allowed huge amount of light on
the wall.
 The whole cube seems like it was floating on the ground.
 Bauhaus is a steel structured building.
 It is a three storey building.

8. BAUHAUS
 The building comprises of five main functional elements-
• Workshop block
• Social area
• Administrative wing
• Studio workshop
• Trade school
 The mass production of various parts like windows, etc. started after
this.

9. BAUHAUS
The studio blocks are connected by auditorium, canteen,
gymnasium.
Left wing- school of arts and crafts
Right wing- workshop
Linear structure.
The building was aesthetically advanced whereas
technologically far behind the contemporary works.

11. BAUHAUS AS A MOVEMENT-
 This piece of architecture gave rise to modernism.
 This had minimalism and functionality.
 Buildings made after this were always cubic in shape.
 ‘Less is more’ holds true.
 Open floor plan became famous.
 Flat roofs, cubic shapes became popular.
 Use of glass and steel increased.

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