bauhaus museum at the china academy of art
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An archive/workshop for the newly aquired Bauhaus collection at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China.TRANSCRIPT
china academy of art
China Academy of Art
BAUHAUSCollection
Archive/Workshop
floating mountains
Tranitional Chinese landscape paintingfloating mountains
Anji province, China floating mountains
Yi Pu Yuan suzhou, china
Bauhaus campusdessau, germany
archive / booksexisting
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archive / objectsproposed
archive / workshopproposed
library / officesexisting
china academy of art
archives workshop
a series of
courtyards within
a series of
pavilions connected by the path
the path
“By detours, access to secrets” - Chinese proverb
outside while insideinside while outside
courtyards of inspiration
Johannes IttenThe Eavesdropper
El LissitzkyPROUN 24
Gunta Stadler-Stölzl5 Choirs
Herbert BayerCinema
Tan Dao-mingChinese Landscape Painting
‘expressionism and craft’
‘rid the students of “all the deadwood of convention”...
unlearning
“a state of innocense beyond the coruption of culture”
a blank canvas for expression and abstraction
de stijl and contructivism
“materialism and mechanization of art and life”
“intersetion of
abstract forms in
abstract space, inhabited by floating planes without mass and of varying degrees of transperancy”
the chinese landscape painting
waterreflection
depthmountain
vegetation
scale
deriving form from
productive method
material constraint
programmatic necessity
Bauhaus approach became extremely
‘objective’
ARCHITECTURE
A D V E R T I S I N G
W O O D / M E T A L
T E X T I L E S “emphesis on socialrather than aesthetic considerations”
‘socially responsive’
working towards production and external influence
simple demountable inexpensive
As with the courtyard, one must build the void in order to make the mass.
of the earth
compressed earth
Tian Ye Ge ningbo, china
Bauhaus campusdessau, germany
