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The New Architecture and the Bauhaus 'fhe New Architecture and the Bauhaus THE M.I.T. PAPERBACK SERIES Computers and the World of the Future 33 Candidates, Issues, and Strategies: edited by Martin Greenberger A Computer Simulation of the 1!NIOand 2 Experiencing Architecture by Steen 1964 Presldentlal Elections by I. de S. Eiler Rasmussen Pool. R. P. Abelson. and S. L. Popkin 3 The Universe by Otto Struve 34 Nationalism and Social Communication by Karl W. Deutsch 4 Word and Object by Willard Van Orman Quine 35 What Science Knows About LIie: An Exploration of Life Sources by Heinz Language, Thought, and Reality by 5 Wollereck Benjamin Lee Whorf 36 Enzymes by J.B. S. Haldane 6 The Learner·• Russian-English Dictionary by B. A. Lapidus and S. V. Shevtsova 37 Universals of Language edited by Joseph H. Greenberg 7 The Learner·• English-Russian Dictionary by S. Folomkina and H. Weiser 38 The Psycho-Blology of Language: An Introduction to Dynamic Philology by Megalopolis by Jean Gottmann 8 George Kingsley Zipf Time Serles by Norbert Wiener 9 39 The Nature of Metals by Bruce A. 10 Lectures on Ordinary Differential Rogers Equations by Witold Hurewicz 40 Mechanics, Molecular Physics, Heat, and 11 The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Sound by R. A. Millikan, D. Roller, and 12 The Sino-Soviet Rift by William E. E. C. Watson Griffith 41 North American Trees by Richard J. 13 Beyond the Melting Pot by Nathan Preston, Jr. Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan 42 God and Golem, Inc. by Norbert Wiener 14 A History of Western Technology by 43 The Architecture of H. H. Richardson Friedrich Klemm and His Times by Henry-Russell 15 The Dawn of Astronomy by Norman Hitchcock Lockyer 44 Toward New Towns tor America by 16 Information Theory by Gordon Raisbeck Clarence Stein 17 The Tao of Science by R. G. H. Siu 45 Man's Struggle for Shelter In an 18 A History of Civil Engineering by Hans Urbanizing World by Charles Abrams Straub 46 Science and Economic Development by 19 Ex-Prodigy by Norbert Wiener Richard L. Meier 20 I Am a Mathematician by Norbert Wiener 47 Human Learning by Edward Thorndike 21 The New Architecture and the Bauhaus 48 Plrotechnla by Vannoccio Biringuccio by Walter Gropius 49 A Theory of Natural Philosophy by 22 A History of Mechanical Engineering Roger Joseph Boscovich by Aubrey F. Burstall 50 Bacterial Metabolism by Marjory 23 Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Ebenezer Stephenson Howard 51 Generalized Harmonic Analysis and 24 Brett's History of Psychology edited by Tauberlan Theorems by Norbert Wiener R. S. Peters 52 Nonlinear Problems In Random Theory 25 Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener by Norbert Wiener 26 Biological Order by Andre Lwoff 53 The Historian and the City edited by Oscar Handlin and John Burchard 27 Nine Soviet Portraits by Raymond A. 54 Planning tor a Nation of Cities edited by Bauer Sam Bass Warner, Jr. 28 Reflexes of the Brain by I. Sechenov 55 SIience by John Cage 29 Thought and Language by L. S. 56 New Directions in the Study of Vygotsky Language edited by Eric H. Lenneberg 30 Chinese Communist Society: The Family 57 Prelude to Chemistry by John Read and the VIiiage by C. K. Yang 58 The Origins of Invention by Otis T. Mason 31 The City: Us Growth, Its Decay, Its 59 Style In Language edited by Thomas A. Future by Eliel Saarinen Sebeok 32 Scientists as Writers edited by James 60 World Revolutionary Elites edited by Harrison Harold D. Lasswell and Daniel Lerner The New Architecture and the Bauhaus by Walter Gropius translated from the German by P. Morton Shand with an introduction by Frank Pick 1111111 THE M.I. T. PRESS Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, l\lf assachusetts Published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited Copyright © 1965 by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology First M.I.T. Press Paperback Edition, February 1965 Fourth Printing, August 1971 ISBN 0 262 57006 8 (paperback) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 65-10279 Printed in the United States of America Introd11ctio11by Frank Pick Dr. Gropius has asked me to write an introduc­ tion to this essay. There seems little need for one. It is a plea for thinking out afresh all the problems of building in terms of current n1at­ erials and of current tools, tools which have be­ come elaborated into machines. It asks that what the past did for wood and brick and stone, the present shall do for steel and concrete and glass. It rightly claims that only out of such a fresh input of thought can a true architecture be established. What interests me still more, it proceeds to observe that what applies to archi­ tecture equally applies in those fields of design which relate to things of everyday use. Such a plea comes at an opportune time, for a lively attention is being directed by more and more people to these problems. This genera­ tion is becoming conscious of art not as some­ thing apart and curious, but as something vital and essential to the fullest life, as something 7 ,vhich will restore grace and order to society. It is a period of pa use in expectation of son1e renascence of art of which the premonitory symptoms grow more numerous and distinct with each year. I am hopeful in my lifetime of enjoying some measure of its realization. Dr. Gropius has been a pioneer of this movement. He has through the Bauhaus made a decisive contribution to its realization. This country may count itself fortunate in being able to en­ tertain him in this period of transition and to secure his guidance. It might even seek to utilize his knowledge and ability in accelerating the changes that must come, not only in archi­ tecture itself, but even more in the teaching of architecture and of art in its widest acceptation. Dr. Gropius rightly points out that the 'new architecture' begins by being stark and formal, and seeks norms or standards. This is a reaction from the welter of copying and adaptation of styles which have ceased to have significance in relation to modern building. But this reaction has almost spent itself, and the new architec­ ture is passing from a negative phase to a posi­ tive phase seeking to speak not only through what it omits or discards, but much more 8 through what it conceives and invents. Indi­ vidual imagination and fancy will more and more take possession of the technical resources of the new architecture, of its spatial har­ monies, of its functional qualities, and will use them as the ground work, or rather frame­ work, of a new beauty which will crown this expected renascence with splendour. If the architect has in the reaction swung too far over towards the engineer he will, in the counter­ reaction, swing back again towards the artist. Progress flows from this wavelike motion. The creative spirit is ever resurgent. The tide relent­ lessly rises over breaking and receding waves. It is the rise of the tide that matters most. Let me revert again from the architecture of buildings to suggest that there is some corre­ sponding art, or science, or combination of both, relating to things. If things are to be rightly conceived and executed and to attract to themselves aesthetic qualities, then out of the technical and craft schools dealing with now this, now that thing, some overriding educational discipline and understanding n1ust arise which will do for things what the new architecture will do for building. I could wish 9 that Dr. Gropius had developed the hints and suggestions in his essay on this subject. It is a critical study for this moment. At one time I thought that maybe architects had limited the scope of their training too narrowly in relating it to building, especially when I saw them ven­ turing into other fields of design such as furni­ ture, decoration, pottery and so forth, but I see now that I was not right. The designer for in­ dustry must be placed alongside the architect, with a training equivalent in character, if directed towards another end, and with a status and authority equivalent too. Dr. Gropius must help to define this training and to explore its methods, once more repeating the experiments of the Bauhaus, with architecture as a mistress art certainly, but also with a new architectonic arising out of a collective understanding of de­ sign in industry. 10 Contents Introduction by Frank Pick page 7 The Ne,v Architecture and the Bauhaus 19 Standardization 30 Rationalization 38 The Bauhaus 51 Preparatory Instruction 68 Practical and Formal Instruction 72 Structural Instruction 80 11 Illustrations plate facing nzunber page 1. The Fagus Boot-Last Factory at Alfeld-an-der-Leine, 1911 (in col- laboration with Adolf Meyer) 19 2. The Entrance Front of the Admin­ istrative Office-Building 1n the Werkbund Exhibition at Cologne in 1914 (in collaboration with Adolf Meyer) 23 3. Rear View of the Administrative Office-Building in the Werkbund Exhibition at Cologne in 1914 (in collaboration with Adolf Meyer) 26 4. The Municipal Theatre at Jena (re­ construction), 1922 (in collabora- tion with Adolf Meyer) 30 5. Typical Products of the Bauhaus which were adopted as Models for Mass-Production by German Manu­ facturers, and also influenced For- eign Industrial Design (1922-1925). 34 13 plate facing nwnber page a. Models of Metal Lamps. b. Writ­ ing-Tablein Glass, Metal and Wood. c. China Service designed by O. Lindig. d. Kitchen Equipment de- signed for the Haus am Horn at Weimar.
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