Part one. Classic Bauhaus. Dessau.
The Bauhaus only existed for 14 years: from 1919 to 1933. Despite this, it became the twentieth century’s most important college of architecture, design and art. Until the present day, the Bauhaus has been a synonym for brave, rational and functional schemes. Today, the historical Bauhaus is the most influential and inspirational educational establishment in the fields of architecture, art and design. The State Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius as a school of arts in Weimar in 1919. As the Bauhaus was a combination of crafts and arts, its nature and concept was regarded as something completely new back then. Part one. Classic Bauhaus. Dessau - it is part of my finial project for 3rd year. Once I have seen a documentary movie about Bauhaus school and was surprised to know that after the closing of the school in 1930s, a group of former Bauhaus teachers and students went to the Soviet Union. The group was organized and headed by chief architect of the city of Frankfurt Ernst May, who signed a five-year contract to work in a specially created project-planning Tsekombank Bureau to build new towns and cities. Not far from my native town in Russia it exists a working city Magnitogorsk, which was planned and built by specialists and architects of Bauhaus.For deep understanding and research of theme of Bauhaus and especially during the time in USSR I have decided to divide this project for two parts: - classic Bauhaus in Dessau; - Bauhaus in Ural. Part one. Classic Bauhaus. Dessau it is project about Dessau-Roßlau which is the city of the Bauhaus architecture. Nowhere else there’s so much Bauhaus in such close quarters. Dessau is a city in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe. Bauhaus moved here in 1925 after it had been forced to close in Weimar. Walter Gropius started building three different complexes in Dessau: school building, Masters’ Houses and «village» Törten Estate. Also later was built Steel House by Georg Muche and Richard Paulick in 1927. The five houses with balcony were built on behalf of the “Spar- und Baugenossenschaft Dessau” (Dessau Savings and Building Society) by the Bauhaus building department, directed from 1927 by Hannes Meyer, who later became director of the Bauhaus. The Kornhaus, a restaurant and pub, was erected in 1929–30 on the banks of the Elbe near the steamship pier, and commissioned by the city of Dessau and the Schultheiss-Patzenhofer Brewery. Researching a lot of information about Bauhaus I stopped my view on Lucia Moholy – this name is synonymous with Bauhaus photography. Her photos of the Bauhaus building, the Masters’ Houses and the Bauhaus range of products lastingly have shaped the image of the art school to this day. The visual fascination of her images inspired me on photography during this project. The result,- is a series of photographs reflecting my view and sensuality of Bauhaus based on inspiration on using simple and pure forms, especially rectangle. All pictures were done by digital camera and printed digitly on size 45cm by 30 cm - horizontal format and 30 cm by 22,5 cm - portrait orientation. Also was done model of presentation this series on exhibition. I wanted to create a space where would be atmosphere of Bauhaus. For this I used long rectangles which should be bent in proportion to each other and in length from floor to ceiling all this create special pulse, rhythm and geometrical structure.