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That's mentioned in the article, the problem they're talking about is that the classes were focused on handwork and what the teachers thought would be good for

• jacquesm 6y ago
  That's misunderstanding the goal of teaching handwork. Handwork teaches you about the materials behavior first and foremost, which is absolutely essential knowledge when you want to do something industrial, unless you will be using a material that you can't work by hand, such as synthetics. But if you want to use wood industrially having basic woodworking knowledge will teach you a lot of very useful stuff about the properties of wood, what you can and can not make, regardless of the manufacturing methods, the strengths and weaknesses of the materials and so on. Ditto for metals, and to some extent this goes for glass and ceramics as well (though in manufacturing methods those come closer to working with plastics, the same goes for casting metals).
  • Gravityloss 6y ago
    Yes. You need to understand both the material and the industrial production methods. The criticism was that Bauhaus only taught the former.