Course Details
950: The Bauhaus and the Masters Who Changed the World
July 8-12
1:45 PM -
3:15 PM
Online
After his service in World War I, Walter Gropius, an up-and-coming young architect, created a unique school and laboratory called the Bauhaus that blended art and craft to benefit industry. Its influence on all aspects of art and design is still being felt to this day. Gropius, Breuer, Kandinsky, Klee, Albers, van der Rohe, names we all know imbued the Bauhaus with previously unknown amount of creative spirit and intellectual freedom. The class will trace the history of this famed institution from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin with a particular focus on its justly famous Masters as well as important student and faculty work. This study group has a high class size capacity.
Class Type: Lecture and Discussion
Class Format: Online
Hours of Reading: No reading
Study Group Leader(s):
Jeffrey SwogerJeffrey Swoger spent his career as a graphic designer and communications consultant. He studied design at The Institute of Design on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Its curriculum was heavily influenced by that of the Bauhaus. His design ethos is very much in tune with the teachings of the masters at the Bauhaus, especially in terms of the use of color and geometric forms.