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The Bauhaus Revisited

1962; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00472239.1962.11102164

1531-314X

Howard Dearstyne,

Architecture and Computational Design

Architectural education as we have it today owes more to the Bauhaus than to any other single institution. Yet the history of the Bauhaus is by no means as fully documented as one might expect; for example, no detailed account of the last six years of its existence, under the directorship of Hannes Meyer and of Mies van der Rohe successively, has yet been published. Howard Dearstyne's book on the Bauhaus (under preparation for Paul Theobald and Company) will repair this omission, in addition to supplying a factual account of the school from its founding in 1919 and a critical analysis of its principles. Mr. Dearstyne was a student at the Bauhaus from 1928 until 1933 (and incidentally the only American to receive a Bauhaus diploma). Of these two excerpts from his forthcoming book, the first describes his arrival at Dessau, as a refugee from the rampant eclecticism of the School of Architecture at Columbia who had recently “discovered” modern architecture in Holland; the second re-assesses the contribution of Henry van de Velde to Bauhaus philosophy and pedagogy