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Instructed by Martha Rothman via Zoom with a field trip on the last day, April 23rd, April 30th and May 7 via Zoom & May 14th 10am-12pm
The Bauhaus was a revolutionary and influential art, design and architecture school founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany. The school relocated to Dessau from 1925 to 1932, and finally to Berlin until the forced closure in 1933. This course will examine the Bauhaus principles, people and politics and their dispersal in the 1930s to the United States—Chicago “New Bauhaus,” Black Mountain College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) where Walter Gropius was appointed a professor of architecture in 1937. GSD faculty based in Cambridge, MA, and their friends and colleagues were subsequently attracted to the Outer Cape and left a legacy of summer houses designed and built in this unique landscape. The last two classes will focus on the local Wellfleet history, geography and design, built upon Bauhaus principles; examine the work of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT) in preserving the architectural legacy; and conclude with an in-person tour, guided by Peter McMahon, of the Breuer House, recently acquired and restored by the CCMHT.
Instructed by Martha Rothman via Zoom with a field trip on the last day, April 23rd, April 30th and May 7 via Zoom & May 14th 10am-12pm
The Bauhaus was a revolutionary and influential art, design and architecture school founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany. The school relocated to Dessau from 1925 to 1932, and finally to Berlin until the forced closure in 1933. This course will examine the Bauhaus principles, people and politics and their dispersal in the 1930s to the United States—Chicago “New Bauhaus,” Black Mountain College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) where Walter Gropius was appointed a professor of architecture in 1937. GSD faculty based in Cambridge, MA, and their friends and colleagues were subsequently attracted to the Outer Cape and left a legacy of summer houses designed and built in this unique landscape. The last two classes will focus on the local Wellfleet history, geography and design, built upon Bauhaus principles; examine the work of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT) in preserving the architectural legacy; and conclude with an in-person tour, guided by Peter McMahon, of the Breuer House, recently acquired and restored by the CCMHT.