Wednesday 29 February 2012

Jo's preparitory task


1. Poster for the V&A 

 
2. 'Fortune magazine' (1953)

3. El Lisitsky (1919) 'Beat the whites with the red wedge"


4. The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence. Nonetheless it was founded with the idea of creating a 'total' work of art in which all arts, including architecture would eventually be brought together. The Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture and modern design. The Bauhaus had a profound influence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography.

5. The Trottroir Roullant, an electric moving walkway which was installed at the metro station Montparnasse-Bienvenue in Paris in 1900, brought about a new way of thinking.



6. Le Corbusier was a great architect of the modern era, he argued that any architecture should be designed to be functional and  in order to meet the needs of those within it.


8. “All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” 
9. Paris became a popular for those who were wealthy and had time to spend, it was a place of new experience, many considered it as 'The place to be' and it quickly became the social hub of Europe.

10. Effel Tower.


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