Bauhaus Then and Now: Global Legacy of a Radical Utopia | Bauhaus Spirit (Documentary, 2018)

Описание: Watch the documentary in German:    • Vom Bauen der Zukunft - 100 Jahre Bauhaus ...  

What does a Latin American favela have to do with an old workers’ settlement in Dessau? What is the connection between a Jewish socialist in a rural commune and the children in a school class in Stockholm? All of these stories concern visions and the practical attempts to make them come true.

Nearly a hundred years ago, a radical artistic utopia, which is still having an impact on the world we live in today, was born in a tranquil town in Germany. Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline. It is a synthesis of liberated imagination and stringent structure; cross-medial concepts that embellish and enrich our existence, illumination and clarity, order and playfulness.
Bauhaus constituted one of the most significant contributions to everyday 20th-century culture and influential contemporary designs, from Apple to the avant-garde of sustainable and future-oriented architecture, still refer to it today.
But Bauhaus was never just an artistic experiment. Confronted with the social conditions of that particular time, as well as the experience of the First World War, the movement concerned itself with the political and social connotations of design from the very outset. Hence, Bauhaus history is not just the history of art, but also the history of an era that stretches from the early 20th century to the modern day.

The film describes the fascinating story of the Bauhaus as the statement, the failure and the renewal of a social utopia. And it tells of artists, scientists and architects today, who, in their examinations of current challenges also relate to the Bauhaus. That way, the story of this unfinished utopian project with its manifold exciting cross-references unfolds before our eyes while always keeping in touch with the questions still topical today: How do we want to live, where do we want to go?


Chapters
▷ 0:00:00 - Cité radieuse de Marseille
▷ 0:01:14 - Medellín
▷ 0:02:44 - Bauhaus
▷ 0:04:46 - Weimar, Walter Gropius
▷ 0:11:39 - Wassily Kandinsky
▷ 0:14:11 - Rosan Bosch, Vittra School Södermalm
▷ 0:21:35 - Bauhaus Exhibition, Oskar Schlemmer
▷ 0:28:18 - Marianne Brandt, Community
▷ 0:32:10 - Walter Gropius, Masters' Houses, Dessau
▷ 0:37:44 - Architects' Data, Ernst Neufert
▷ 0:41:26 - Törten in Dessau-Roßlau, Gropius residence
▷ 0:47:20 - Urban-Think Tank
▷ 0:56:30 - Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
▷ 1:02:20 - Dorothea Rockburne, Susan Weil
▷ 1:07:35 - Black Mountain College
▷ 1:10:53 - Berlin Gropiusstadt
▷ 1:12:43 - Cité radieuse de Marseille
▷ 1:27:30 - Credits

#bauhaus #architecture #dessau #waltergropius #wassilykandinsky #paulklee

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Original title: Bauhaus Spirit
A film by Niels Bolbrinker and Thomas Tielsch

© 2018, Licenced by Autlook

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