Despite that, as much of this work is found today, one gets the sense that you find yourself in a modern form of a bleak, abandoned ancient ruin: the dry husk of the near distant ago, and on the set, perhaps of A Clockwork Orange.
Showing posts with label Bauhaus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bauhaus. Show all posts
19 April 2012
The Neo-Bauhaus Modern Architecture of Everyday Life
This photo collection and this book’s website may be the best collection summarizing a sense of a style and time that I’ve seen so far. Discount the weather, the ubiquitous Berlin graffiti, and the effects of time on these buildings, and the futurist’s-optimism inherent in the outlook from which they were built seem to radiate off of the precast concrete and Portland cement plaster that most of them are garbed in.
Despite that, as much of this work is found today, one gets the sense that you find yourself in a modern form of a bleak, abandoned ancient ruin: the dry husk of the near distant ago, and on the set, perhaps of A Clockwork Orange.
Despite that, as much of this work is found today, one gets the sense that you find yourself in a modern form of a bleak, abandoned ancient ruin: the dry husk of the near distant ago, and on the set, perhaps of A Clockwork Orange.
16 April 2012
05 April 2012
Park your Butt in the Land of Cool
The deliciously cool Bauhaus Archiv Berlin has had a few chair displays, as well as some seminal examples, but for the chair-crazed, it can't get any better or more genuine than this.
05 April 2011
More Neo-Bauhaus
From a city that is philosophically more of a hybrid than it is European, Mediterranean, or Near Eastern, and might be one of the most substantive laboratories of Bauhaus and it’s many Near Distant there-afters. It’s present day Tel Aviv.
A new city, it was to make every effort to look into the future, not into the hard, class separated, hatred laden past, so the “new” style, a forward looking one, seemed a natural choice, despite the fascist use of modernism in Italy and Germany in a state-authoritarian and institutional role.
A new city, it was to make every effort to look into the future, not into the hard, class separated, hatred laden past, so the “new” style, a forward looking one, seemed a natural choice, despite the fascist use of modernism in Italy and Germany in a state-authoritarian and institutional role.
21 March 2011
The Old-New Near Distant Architectural Objectivity
"Shell-Haus", Berlin-Tiergarten, 1930-1932
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