Bauhaus design is everywhere, but its roots are political 

same!! we just studied this in my theatre class about a week ago.

they're w a t c h i n g you

wow that escalated quickly

So true, we've recently studied this last week for theory of architecture!! What a coincidence!!

@Adventure Hey, same here studying ID. _It's Bauhaus one day, every day!_ :)

Actually the Nazis didn't close Bauhaus many books say that Hitler closed Bauhaus when he got elected in 1933 but actually he said he would close Bauhaus so they shut down Bauhaus before the Nazis could force them to shut down so they don't get the "title" for shutting down Bauhaus.

Thats true, also ludwig mies and other bauhaus members still worked in germany almost before WWII started, people tend to believe that it was the ideological reason early modernists had to flee but in reality it was more due to econimic crisis and military build up which at that moment helped crumbling germany but at the same time made impossible to create new niches in certain fields. History of architecture tries to whitewash bauhaus and modernists but they indeed were fellow totalitarians but in a certain fetails they had disagreements with other totalitarian movements. I have no particular problem with one or two minimalistic modernist building on the nice street but living in postsoviet georgia showed me the cultural shift modernist have achieved. They achieved total recreation of our envirement by the mean of state. Thats why I call them totalitarians, not because they liked horizontal windows but for courage to force everyone to admire their vision of future.

Just got back! it was really interesting! I really liked how Gropius's daughter was asked what she wanted for the house and she said "a sand floor windowed roof and my own personal entrance" and that's why there's those weird stairs in the front of the house leading to the upstairs balcony.

@@tessgordon6744 how cool. I would like to meet those places too.

That's true. Nyomdász évkönyv és útikalauz, which means printer('s) yearbook and travel guide. The travel guide part must be figurative, I believe.

​@darkblveocean its like a person waving, the ` o ` is the head, the line is the arm there is others, common ones are like wave: o/ salute: o7 yay: \o/ the normal face ones like :) seem too sarcastic and fake to me now some body language feels a lil more genuine _that or i have weird experiences with smiles_

@@YagamiKou \○/ thank you

There is better architecture than modern architecture. Modern architecture looks boring and non inspirational.

@@javierpacheco8234 cringe boring pointy house beta believer Vs Inspirational Chad modern architecture believer

I agree. They quickly switched from Fraktur to Futura, that as the name says, is extremely modern and clean. The revivalism was more about ideas useful to the Nazi Party (submissive women, hyper-masculinity, obscurantism, etc) and less about the old aesthetics.

Totally agree. This video does a poor job of hiding it's agenda, which is to show Bauhaus as a kind of art in service of humanity, which is utter nonsense. The forms and houses are completely out of touch with human nature and the needs of humans. It puts function over anything else, robbing people of the experience of beauty and treating them like robots. It promotes a reprehensible view of humanity, history and beauty and the day the last bauhaus building is knocked down is a day to celebrate.

This little conversation here got me good! Any resources or books recommendation that give a deeper analysis of what's being shortly discussed here?

@@AvB2106 Couldn't agree more. The design philosophy is as much anti-human as it is anti-God. The Bauhaus has one perspective, that of humanity, because of this it lacks the transcendent. Their attempt to "serve" humanity, by delimiting design to a merely human focus actually serves to dehumanize. People need the transcendent, which is the source of beauty, goodness, and truth. This is the reason why Bauhaus architecture and the architecture of all her cousins & daughters (international style, brutalism, etc.) is so hideous, unlivable, and unlovable, Good riddance.

it was left in ruins economically and politically

Yep

Yes, no

Incredibly distracting

people with speech impediments making videos? next it'll be people with foreign accents, or even women!!

@@tollutollu How is a speech impediment equivalent to being a woman? One noticeably affects the quality of narration and the other does not.

No you’re just dumb

@Alba Celani Are you a Neonazi?! Stap talking BS.

Oh no, somebody doest like your ugly totalitarian architecture and arts, what a shame lets call them nazis.

Maybe because Bauhaus is just that - Orwellian.

This is actually not true, it would be translated into Building house or construction house😊

Bauhaus Bau = Bauen = building something/ constructing something Haus = House

The name "Bauhaus" carries a reference to the medieval "Bauhütte", a group of artisans of various expertise working together to create something grand (a cathedral back then).

@@adrianehartmann8711Thanks for that insight

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Bauhaus was indeed political and leaning to the different types of socialist movements. Gropius and ludwig sympathised towards commies and many bauhaus examples also can be found in USSR. Weimar republic was truly a terrible mix of weak goverment combined with various types of left leaning opposed powers. This enviroment created both bauhaus, nsdp and other sorts of extreme or moderate left. because only thing people were desparate to achive was stability and clear picture of future, and demand was fulfilled in a cultural sense, providing revolutionary and often destructive bauhaus ideas.

I agree and today architecture is horrible.

I find most traditional architecture styles to be lacking because they tend to rely upon applied facades and motifs that add no function to their host buildings. I find this to be both gaudy and dishonest and thus to be avoided. An example of good traditional architecture, however, would be the Spanish mission style. Simple forms whose accenting is both built directly into the building instead of tacked on and provides clear function. For me, the appeal of Bauhaus is that its the defining element of Gothic architecture, extracted from its source and distilled. In any such building, you are a small point in a great, geometrically constructed space. Nothing the pure structure of the universe here. This space is absolutely neutral and lifeless, which allows you to make up the life within it without the need for an architectural crutch along the lines of a gaudy McMansion. Finally, these buildings represent our near-total triumph over the natural world as the human race. We have risen above scrambling around in mud huts in the darkness and it is glorious.

@@jakekaywell5972 Hello Jake, I appreciate your perspective that architecture should be "honest." This is in fact one reason why you should hate Bauhaus design. I believe that the Bauhaus does not represent an honest response to the world that is. For instance, by focusing on humanity as the be all and end all of design it fails to recognize a world marked by and shot through with indicators of the transcendent. Bauhaus design does not give value to what most humans have seen as the source of beauty, goodness, and truth from time immemorial. That to me is dishonest. This is true, according to at the very least, the perspective of felt human need and an almost universal understanding regarding the source of goodness (God, the gods, the transcendent etc.) As to your example of Facades being "gaudy" "tacked on" and "dishonest, may I suggest that facades do indeed serve a function. Let me illustrate. Our local modern art museum is the typical granddaughter of the Bauhaus school, all glass and concrete in horizontal lines. My attempt to enter this building was thwarted by its lack of ornamental facade. I couldn't tell where the door was. I was stuck pushing on one glass panel after another until I finally found the one which was a door (see Tati's Playtime for more of this kind of thing). A facade would have indicated 1) the front of the building, and 2) located the entrance for visitors. There are other reasons for carefully designed facades, but these two reasons are purely functional and that is after all the claim supreme of the Bauhaus.

What? In what language

@@Jukau Bauhaus in German literally means "building house" but became know as "school building"

What? no, Traditional architecture makes architecture beautiful.

@@javierpacheco8234 Heavily disagree. Mostly needless frippery, with only a few genuinely good styles.

I find most traditional architecture styles to be lacking because they tend to rely upon applied facades and motifs that add no function to their host buildings. I find this to be both gaudy and dishonest and thus to be avoided. An example of good traditional architecture, however, would be the Spanish mission style. Simple forms whose accenting is both built directly into the building instead of tacked on and provides clear function. For me, the appeal of Bauhaus is that its the defining element of Gothic architecture, extracted from its source and distilled. In any such building, you are a small point in a great, geometrically constructed space. Nothing the pure structure of the universe here. This space is absolutely neutral and lifeless, which allows you to make up the life within it without the need for an architectural crutch along the lines of a gaudy McMansion. Finally, these buildings represent our near-total triumph over the natural world as the human race. We have risen above scrambling around in mud huts in the darkness and it is glorious.

Well it was an economic shit show

The country was in bad shape due to the Treaties of Versailles

Not Gay All this comment does is show your glaring ignorance on the subject of design.

@@On_The_Piss He's right

Jips Nice opinion you got there

I find most traditional architecture styles to be lacking because they tend to rely upon applied facades and motifs that add no function to their host buildings. I find this to be both gaudy and dishonest and thus to be avoided. An example of good traditional architecture, however, would be the Spanish mission style. Simple forms whose accenting is both built directly into the building instead of tacked on and provides clear function. For me, the appeal of Bauhaus is that its the defining element of Gothic architecture, extracted from its source and distilled. In any such building, you are a small point in a great, geometrically constructed space. Nothing the pure structure of the universe here. This space is absolutely neutral and lifeless, which allows you to make up the life within it without the need for an architectural crutch along the lines of a gaudy McMansion. Finally, these buildings represent our near-total triumph over the natural world as the human race. We have risen above scrambling around in mud huts in the darkness and it is glorious.

First of all, the goal of Bauhaus was not to remove "human essence". It is also very questionable to claim that modern design is void of it. What is human essence? An intricate detailed Renaissance painting? A gothic facade? Don't mistake your personal taste with "human essence". There is also no connection to a "global colonization of arts and culture" as you call it, which is also a rather bold and unsubstantiated claim.

@@92Frederik The goal of (late) Bauhaus was in fact, dehumanisation (that is, deromanticism) and industrialization of art and identity, one should only read Gropius, Meyer, Le Corbu and their critics of Arts & Crafts. The war on ornament and decor, and supreme radical formalism are *the pillar* of modernist movement, and if you are uneducated to state otherwise, I would suggest you to study Adorno or Lyotard. The absolute globalization and internationalism is the logical conclusion of modernism.

@@vaevictis3612 I find most traditional architecture styles to be lacking because they tend to rely upon applied facades and motifs that add no function to their host buildings. I find this to be both gaudy and dishonest and thus to be avoided. An example of good traditional architecture, however, would be the Spanish mission style. Simple forms whose accenting is both built directly into the building instead of tacked on and provides clear function. For me, the appeal of Bauhaus is that its the defining element of Gothic architecture, extracted from its source and distilled. In any such building, you are a small point in a great, geometrically constructed space. Nothing the pure structure of the universe here. This space is absolutely neutral and lifeless, which allows you to make up the life within it without the need for an architectural crutch along the lines of a gaudy McMansion. Finally, these buildings represent our near-total triumph over the natural world as the human race. We have risen above scrambling around in mud huts in the darkness and it is glorious.

Agreed. Anyone advocating for Bauhaus design has to reckon with the overwhelmingly negative response normal people have had to it, and especially the response of those who were forced to live in, on, around, or near one of its architectural examples.

guatemalantomcat Because you don’t understand it.

​@@On_The_Piss no need to understand...if something looks ugly, looks ugly. Only architects like modern concept

I find most traditional architecture styles to be lacking because they tend to rely upon applied facades and motifs that add no function to their host buildings. I find this to be both gaudy and dishonest and thus to be avoided. An example of good traditional architecture, however, would be the Spanish mission style. Simple forms whose accenting is both built directly into the building instead of tacked on and provides clear function. For me, the appeal of Bauhaus is that its the defining element of Gothic architecture, extracted from its source and distilled. In any such building, you are a small point in a great, geometrically constructed space. Nothing the pure structure of the universe here. This space is absolutely neutral and lifeless, which allows you to make up the life within it without the need for an architectural crutch along the lines of a gaudy McMansion. Finally, these buildings represent our near-total triumph over the natural world as the human race. We have risen above scrambling around in mud huts in the darkness and it is glorious.

@@DanieleGiusi I'm not an architect and I like it.

Gay accent?

MOB yeah, it's a common dialect spoken on the region of Gayland. Imagine using this as an excuse to not improve your diction.

@@MatiasMishel96 I thought it's called Gaylic