Instruction
Watch the Bauhaus Documentary on the page of the link below. Watch the lecture about Walter Gropius and Mies Van Der Rohe. Read the Loos Ornament and Crime excerpt. Watch the Loos lecture.
http://www.ubu.com/film/bauhaus_doc.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2quI-KBlIc
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Based on your reading of Ornament and Crime and watching of the Bauhaus documentary, do you believe that Adolf Loos would have supported the activities taking place at the Bauhaus school? Consider this question as relates to three of the disciplines presented in the film (ie. architecture, furniture making, weaving, theater, etc.) (2 paragraphs min)
Think about the aesthetic of the early modern architecture we have seen so far: Rietveldt, Mies Van Der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Adolf Loos do you believe this work looks like it is revolutionary or political in the context of the early 1900s? What about today? (2 paragraphs min.)