Bauhaus 1919-1933: Weimar-Dessau-Berlin - Michael Siebenbrodt, Lutz Schobe, ebrary, Inc c2009

Reading 4 (Week 14)
Bauhaus buildings 

This reading continued the development on the Architectural career. Below is a photograph of The Barcelona Pavilion which shapes the image of Bauhaus architecture today, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The glass used within a lot of the Bauhaus architecture consist of larger areas of glass, which gives the building a special transparency and elegance.

'Art and technology-a new unity' had become Gropius central idea. Within this reading it talks about the development of the Bauhaus School which was founded by Gropius. 

Almost the same time as Gropius's 1922 competition design for the Chicago Tribune Tower with its visible skeleton structure, Ludwig Mies van der Roche developed his famous office and skyscraper projects which were never carried out.

Easily recognisable building shapes were attributed to the five functional areas. - 1925

The architectural ideas and quality criteria of Mies van der Roche became the benchmark for the student designs, and not the development of individual design ideas.

The Bauhaus architects as discussed contributed decisively to the development of further works in Europe with their international network as members of architectural organisations and associations

I found it interesting reading about the architecture that creates our image of Bauhaus of architecture today. For me, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Roche, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright all regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.