Anting, which aspires to be a car-making hub, is re-creating the pastel-colored apartment blocks and Bauhaus offices found in the German city of Weimar.
Beginning roughly around the 1930's an artist's education engendered the egalitarian ideals of the Bauhaus.
At a time when abstraction was still new, Bauhaus artists worked towards a universal visual language, one that was based on geometry and devoid of narrative.
One was the influence of the European modernist movement, led by Bauhaus architects in Germany and le Corbusier in France.
Inaugurated in the wake of the first world war, the Bauhaus school spent 14 years grappling with what it meant to live in an age of machines, mass consumption and post-war dread.
Bauhaus “is so much more than tubular steel chairs,” explains Leah Dickerman, who curated the show with Barry Bergdoll at the museum.
As with most art movements that begin with manifestos, the Bauhaus school had a Utopian element.
The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering. Critics have said Frank Gehry gets his inspiration from crumpled pieces of paper.
Drafted by the Gropius, "Bauhaus Declaration" is an important document of modern design, the highest of modern design education program.
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