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The Bauhaus Football Club<\/h2>\n

In this period of world cup, Graph\u00e9ine had fun imagining a world cup of designers. Just as the Sele\u00e7\u00e3o are the most mythical team in football, we wondered which team would have been the equivalent in design.<\/p>\n

The answer is obvious: The Bauhaus Football Club!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine... Paul Klee<\/strong> as left winger, Walter<\/strong> Gropius<\/strong> as centre-forward, Kandinsky<\/strong> in goal... and Mies Van der Roh<\/strong>e replacing !\u00a0\u00a0We will count you the adventure of this dream team!<\/p>\n

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Bauhaus, the school that
\nrevolutionized design<\/h2>\n

The first Bauhaus school<\/strong>, which literally means \"building house\", was founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, by the architect Walter Gropius. It is in line with Mondrian's art and the constructivist movement.
\nIt is first of all a physical fusion of two schools: the School of Fine Arts and the School of Applied Arts. This merger gave birth to a unique and strong concept, the foundation for the Bauhaus.<\/p>\n

In Weimar, where the school was founded, the \"Bauhaus\", its avant-garde ideas and its students with a \"communist\" tendency, were rather frowned upon at the time. As a reminder, Weimar will leave his sad name through the Weimar Republic which will end with Hitler coming to power. So the Bauhaus moves to Dessau.<\/p>\n

The school continues its evolution with the arrival of Hannes Meyer at its head. Meyer is even more radical, he advocates even more simplicity and more function, in an approach even more social (cf:humanist) for a design accessible even to the poor strata of society. Then comes the last director, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The school left Dessau for Berlin in 1932.<\/p>\n

The Nazis, reluctant to value this humanist vision, closed the school. School's dead, but not his ideas!\u00a0The movement lasted 14 years, interrupted in flight by Nazi fever, but will continue to spread throughout the world thanks to former students or teachers in exile.<\/p>\n

If we still talk so much about the Bauhaus today and that its influence is so important, it is because this desire to combine form and function, to seek simplicity to make it accessible through straight lines and refined geometric compositions is in the very essence of the design concept.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A tactic in 3 steps:
\nform, function, simplicity<\/h2>\n

The philosophy that guides the Bauhaus could fit in a line \"<\/strong>I don't want to be big, I want to be good\"<\/strong><\/em>, it's the idea of building in a fair way, without any superfluous whatsoever. It is a deeply humanistic vision that must guide the design.<\/p>\n

This is the precept that would later become the \"Less is more<\/a>\" under the pen of Mies van der Rohe.<\/p>\n

In the vision of the Bauhaus, art must free itself from distinctions and must not only be categorized in the box of the beautiful (Fine Arts) or the functional (Applied Arts), it must be both, both art and technology. To this must be added the idea that objects, buildings or any design idea must be conceivable in series, and thus accessible to the greatest number. Vibrant colours combined with modern materials (steel, glass...) and made functional thanks to simple geometric shapes make it possible to create an architectural and minimalist system<\/strong>. The school principals are all architects!<\/p>\n

(Architects are actually designers, even if they don't know it... or designers are architects... whatever, it's the same profession...)<\/p>\n

Among the teachers or figures of the Bauhaus movement are\u00a0Paul Klee<\/a>,\u00a0Wassily Kandinsky<\/a> and the Hungarian photographer and painter\u00a0Laszlo Moholy-Nagy<\/a>. Students learn both theory and practice, through hands-on workshops in pottery, carpentry, weaving, etc.<\/p>\n

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To understand better what the Bauhaus movement<\/strong> is, we suggest you watch this short video made by Arte<\/em>.<\/p>\n