Walter Gropius and Bauhaus

Walter Gropius by Sigfried Giedion

Noted critic's authoritative, objective study of great pioneer of modern architecture. Masterly analysis of evolution of contemporary architecture, achievements of Bauhaus, much more.

Plans of buildings and projects

Over 300 photographs and plans of buildings and projects enhance the text. Also, appreciations of Gropius by Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, complete list of Gropius works, extensive bibliography, other material.
Walter Gropius by Sigfried Giedion
ISBN: 0486271188

Walter Gropius by Paolo Berdini

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing. Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects.
No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.
Walter Gropius by Paolo Berdini
ISBN: 8425216230

Theater of the Bauhaus

The Bauhaus movement was one of the twentieth century's most daring experiments in arts education, and its influence on architecture, design, and the visual arts is well known. Many of its most important ideas are revealed in Bauhaus writings about theatrical performance and performance spaces.

Originally published in Germany in 1924

The Theater of the Bauhaus, originally published in Germany in 1924, describes a theater stripped of history, moralism, scenery, even narrative itself. The Bauhaus group believed traditional theater to be little more than a vehicle for propaganda and rejected as well the theater of ridicule and satire practiced by the Dadaists and Expressionists. In place of both conventional and avant-garde drama, Oskar Schlemmer and his Bauhaus associates created an abstract theater of movement, color, light, form, and sound - language would be added later, once the stage had been purged of its literary encumbrance.

Freed from history, tradition, class and nationality

They believed that humanity's essential nature - freed from history, tradition, class and nationality - would find expression in theatrical works that incorporated pantomime, masks, dance, and acrobatics.
Theater of the Bauhaus by Walter Gropius
ISBN: 0801855284

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