Bauhaus was a totally different type of art school, training students in many art and design disciplines, with the ultimate aim of unifying art, craft, and technology. (Part 3 of 6) Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQpDGfX5e7CJ87BDeuTdXTpxl0YM2Tdb --- How Bauhaus is your house? Discover your design alter ego http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/engineering-and-technology/design-and-innovation/design/design-nutshell Explore qualifications in 'Design and Innovation' with The OU http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/qualification/q61.htm ---

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1. The Nazis were not exactly "Conservative", they were fascists.
2. This video is beautiful, wish it didnt end so quickly.
3. Does anyone know where the narrator is from? I'm not a native speaker and it's realy difficult to specify things like that...
4. How Bauhaus is your house... Someone kill me...
5. I love the graphics and most of the explaining, but to me it seems yet kinda ambigous. Maybe this is just so general, but still.. I think it could be more specific.
6. Excellent!
7. I wish the scene about Bauhaus creating "art school" as an institution didn't show a drunken, passed out student with a wine bottle — b/c of this, I dont' think I can show it to my high school design students. (Boo).
8. Bauhaus was one of the most definitive design movements of the modern age, reaching its peak between the two world wars.  The word Bauhaus, loosely translated from German, mean House of Construction, or School of Building.  Bauhaus was a new type of art school.  Historically, European art academies taught each design subject separately.  The Bauhaus offered foundation training in many art and design disciplines.  They believed in variety.  Understanding mass production was part of the curriculum and the school sought to develop students who could unify art with craft while embracing new technology.  It was also the beginning of the art school as an alternative way of life.  Germany at that time was a pretty conservative place.  And before the Nazis said NEIN! to the Bauhaus, it was arguably the most celebrated art school in the world.  Bauhaus thinkers believed the world needed to be fundamentally re-thought.  Unnecessary ornamentation was out, minimalism was in.  Good design required simplicity and geometric purity.  One of the best known icons of Bauhaus design is the cantilevered chair.  Designed by someone named Breuer, it was inspired by the steel tubes of his bicycle, and ultimately led to the first lightweight, mass-produced metal chair.  Despite his success, Breuer concluded that eventually chairs would become obsolete and everyone would soon be sitting on supportive columns of air.  Bauhaus was all about innovation!   And inspiration.  Nowadays, Bauhaus influences can be seen everywhere, from road signs and graphic design, to big windows and even bigger buildings.  In architecture, the International Styles, as it became known, influenced skylines the world over.  Bauhaus was about ideas, reform, exploration and vitality.  About making more tidy sense of the rapidly evolving world around us.  And giving us more cool stuff for our apartments!  How Bauhaus is your house?
9. this is so great thanks a lot
10. hi could you tell me who designed this video? and what kind of animated video style would you call this?
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12. excellent video!!
13. It looks good, but without captions I can't follow a word as I'm deaf. I expect an Institution like OU to provide them.
14. 0:47 = project X :)
15. nice presentation
16. fuck bauhas not the band oh there awesome.
17. Thanks a lot! It's good to find people who share their knowledge :)
18. well the building shown in the beginning of this video is not located in Weimar. Ist in Dessau, where the second period took place.
19. I like bauhaus design, but why is there this attitude that decoration is bad and that you can't put something in just because it looks good ? also, is modernism the end of architecture? or will there be a new shift in the future?
20. A bit disappointed they didn't mention Johannes Itten.