Patrtire dall’artigianato, passare per la tecnologia e finire all’arte: ecco cos’è per me il Bauhaus. Non so come lo codificò esattamente Walter Gropius, considerato l’ideatore di questa scuola di pensiero, ma so che reinterpretava la tradizione classica delle tecniche costruttive volgendole in una nuova “arte del costruire”, la cui idea di fondo era la ricerca dell’essenza delle cose attraverso un processo di sottrazione del superfluo. Con lui i vari “maestri” quali Mies Van Der Rohe, Lecorbusier (pseudonimo di Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer (la sedia nell'immagine è sua), Eric Mendelsohn e tanti altri, come, in campo artistico, Vasilij Kandinskij o Paul Klee. Gropius amava affermare che bisogna semplificare ed avere grande cura dei dettagli; i suoi motti famosi erano “less is more” e “God is in the details”.
Bauhaus: less is more
Starting from crafts, passing through technology and ending to art: that's what is Bauhaus for me. I do not know exactly how Walter Gropius, considered the creator of this school of thought, codified it but I know that he reinterpreted the classic tradition of building techniques changing it in a new "art of building" whose basic idea was the search of essence through a process of subtraction of the redundant. With him, the various "masters" such as Mies Van Der Rohe, Lecorbusier (pseudonym of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer, Eric Mendelsohn and others, as in the artistic field, Vasilij Kandinsky or Paul Klee. Gropius was fond of saying that we needed to simplify and have great attention to detail, its famous mottoes were "less is more" and "God is in the details."
Starting from crafts, passing through technology and ending to art: that's what is Bauhaus for me. I do not know exactly how Walter Gropius, considered the creator of this school of thought, codified it but I know that he reinterpreted the classic tradition of building techniques changing it in a new "art of building" whose basic idea was the search of essence through a process of subtraction of the redundant. With him, the various "masters" such as Mies Van Der Rohe, Lecorbusier (pseudonym of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer, Eric Mendelsohn and others, as in the artistic field, Vasilij Kandinsky or Paul Klee. Gropius was fond of saying that we needed to simplify and have great attention to detail, its famous mottoes were "less is more" and "God is in the details."
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