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> it remains a symbol of a modern approach to architecture and design. As if that's a good thing. I see someone else has already referenced "From Bauhaus to Ou
by AlbertCory 3y ago
> it remains a symbol of a modern approach to architecture and design.
As if that's a good thing. I see someone else has already referenced "From Bauhaus to Our House."
The bottom line is just this: Bauhaus is ugly. It does not uplift people's spirits and it does not make us happy. The authors inadvertently give the best argument against it:
> Many also believed that only dedicated craftsman, with their hands-on approach, could produce the highest quality work. They argued that machine production inevitably led to a decline in aesthetic quality. Furthermore, they contended that individuals surrounded by such unattractive surroundings lacked an appreciation for beauty.
- lukas099 3y agoI'm not an architect or anything, and I think Bauhaus looks awesome. And sure I wish we could all live in perfect craftsman houses painstakingly put together with a hammer and nails but that's not realistic.
- hammock 3y agoMy idea of a perfect house involves post-and-beam construction with no nails at all and only traditional joinery :) Although I know a guy who takes down really old buildings and regularly sees hand-wrought nails, those are cool too
- ainiriand 3y agoDo you mean traditional Japanese joinery? Because for sure the traditional western joinery involved nails.
- hammock 3y agoMortise and tenon. Found all over the world, some of the earliest examples are in europe
- bombcar 3y agoYou also have whatever it is using pegs - https://yankeebarnhomes.com/2017/12/14/post-beam-vs-timber-frame-structures-difference/ https://yankeebarnhomes.com/2017/12/14/post-beam-vs-timber-f... Though that may be just a variation of mortise and tenon.
- ainiriand 3y agoIf will check it out, thanks! Until now I was not aware of anything like that outside Japan.
- AlbertCory 3y agoFalse choice. It's not "my way or insane expense."
- atoav 3y agoYou probably don't know how utterly dysfunctional for example a typical kitchen looked before Bauhaus. See Magarete Schütte-Lihotzkys Frankfurt Kitchen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen The cliché Bauhaus style people know is not the thing that had the impact, everything else was.
- astrange 3y agoIs that supposed to be a good or bad kitchen? It looks hard to move around in, but the colors are nice.
- usrusr 3y agoIt's a amazing kitchen. This isn't V8 suburbia, where garages are bigger than what an entire working class family or two lived in in interwar Europe.
- atoav 3y agoNo I don't think you understand: before that kitchens generally looked very different and were much more dysfunctional. The reason you don't find it very spectacular from a 2024 perspective is because that kitchen design was so successful it changed how kitchens looked after it. So you will certainly find better (but also worse) kitchens today, but that kitchen design had a ton of impact on how things are looking today. Before that the typical kitchen furniture were single freestanding objects, like this stove: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Frankfurt-Kitchen%2C_kitchen_stove_%282%29.jpg/440px-Frankfurt-Kitchen%2C_kitchen_stove_%282%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Fr... But it is more than surface, Schütte-Lihotzky went and measured how long certain tasks were taking and optimized the layout and objects of the kitchen to minimize the waste of time, aomething that before that wasn't really a thing in residential kitchens.
- bombcar 3y agoThat itself says it was a designed kitchen for a particular use case. And it incorporates things like varying countertop heights, etc. Looks workable to me - remember kitchens were not "open concept" at the time, nor made for multiple people operating in them at once.
- lostemptations5 3y agoBauhaus is kind of fun and cool-- even playful. I totally disagree that it's depressing.
- wnc3141 3y agoLove that book. Tom Wolfe's dry wit is a joy. However the modernism originating with bauhaus can be applied tactfully with enhanced functionality (I.e larger unobstructed spaces- but in limited fashion. Too often it strips the humanity away from our spaces. A stunning example of such modernism: Aarhus City Hall, Denmark
- Log_out_ 3y agoThe problem is also nowadays the decoration, ornamental or pictures could be machined into wall elements quiet chiefly. Imagine a house with walls of family history moments. Today bauhaus is mostly a symbol of the terror rule of the economic over the aestetic and the suppression of individualism in architecture.
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