IN PERSON: Combining the arts and crafts movement with early 20th century methods of industrialization against a backdrop of social turmoil and a new approach to arts education, Germany’s Staatliches Bauhaus school transformed design and established the modernist style that remains popular nearly 100 years later. It was founded by Walter Gropius; had as instructors Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Breuer, and Josef Albers (to name just a few); and later was led by Mies van der Rohe. This course will explore a variety of topics from the origins of the international style of architecture to the basics of color theory as we know it today. Simultaneously, we will examine the closure of the Bauhaus by the Nazis and the migration of the school’s theories to America, England, and Israel. For those who have previously taken this course and wish to do so again, there will be updates to focus on new findings related to looted art as well as research on neuroaesthetics. | Lecture + Q&A, Facilitated discussion.
Max enrollment: 40.
Location: Erwin Mill, 2024 W. Main St, Durham NC 27705
