February 24, 2010

Important topics introduced tonight:

• De Stijl
• Gerrit Rietveld
• Theo van Doesburg
• Mondrian
• Kurt Schwitters
• EL Lissitzky
• Gerrit Rietveld
• Peter Oud
• J.J.P. Oud
• The Bauhaus
• Walter Gropius
• Johannes Itten
• Laszlo Moholy Nagy
• Herbert Bayer
• Jan Tschichold

The most interesting thing in tonight's class was the short movie about the Bauhaus. I found it interesting because of the clear and constantly changing images and music. The information given was also very interesting, since most of it was unknown to me. When the Bauhaus was first open half of the students where women, although they were confined to certain sections that they taught. This was impressing because is was very uncommon for women to go to school in that time. Their idea of less is more has been seen today all over with graphic design, architecture, industrial design, and basically anything we might see around us. I would have never thought that some of the things we use now a days, like the table lamps that are so common, where designed in that time. Their architecture, specifically in the second building they had, is very common in these times where everything looks very modern by using clear windows which allows people from outside see everything going on inside. Many buildings in big cities, such as New York, use same style of architecture that was used during the Bauhaus.