BAUHAUS

*Berlin's BAUHAUS archive wasn't allowing photographs, so I only have pictures of bauhaus building in Dessau.

Us design geeks wanted to explore all about Bauhaus, so while we were touring Berlin we went to Bauhaus archive. It was very small and there was nothing much there to be called an archive, but it was still interesting to see the history of Bauhaus. One thing I realized while looking through the archive was that I felt like RISD was the modern version of Bauhaus school (or the other way around- maybe, Bauhaus is the model school for RISD). Bauhaus students were required to go through a course that's equivalent of Foundation studies at RISD. They studied drawing, color studies, material studies, and 3D studies. Their 3D models and color studies looked hella like ours.

When Walter Gropius, the founder of Bauhaus, first built the school in 1919, he had a motto for the school: Unity of art and technology. Basically, Bauhaus was the starting point when designers were created instead of craftmen or artists. Every object that was designed was meant to be manufactured in industrial scaleused and used in everyday life. Even though all the lamps and tea cups may look too stereotypical, but that was when the vocabulary of designs that are manufactured still in these days.