Architecture, art and design - 100 years of the Bauhaus (1/3) | DW Documentary

How has the Bauhaus school of architecture and design, Germany’s best-known art school, shaped the world we live in today?
bauhausWORLD - The Effect (2/3): • Architecture, art and ...
bauhausWORLD - The Utopia (3/3): • Architecture, art and ...
The three-part documentary bauhausWORLD marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of Germany’s best-known art, architecture and design school, the Bauhaus. Exploring the legacy of this iconic German institution, our film crew traveled the world, meeting architects, artists, urban planners, doers and dreamers. Do the Bauhaus’s social ideals and design principles still shape how we live today?
New approaches to education and training, architecture, painting, dance and design were explored and developed at the Bauhaus. Its founder and director Walter Gropius attracted the leading creative figures of the era, including Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Anni Albers, Josef Albers and Gunta Stölzl. Today, Bauhaus is considered the birthplace of Modernism and has become a byword for sleek, functional design.
Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school moved to Dessau in 1925 and then to Berlin, where it was forced to shut in 1933 after Hitler seized power. Most of its artists, architects and visionaries emigrated, fanning out and spreading the Bauhaus doctrine around the world.
Filmmaker Lydia Ranke and her team traveled the world to make the three-part documentary bauhausWORLD. Alongside the Bauhaus sites of Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, they visited cities such as Tokyo, Amman, Tel Aviv, New York, Chicago, Mexico City and Medellín, talking to experts from architects Norman Foster and Tatiana Bilbao to architecture critic Mark Wigley, furniture designer Yinka Ilori and fashion designer Kasia Kucharska.
"The Code" is the first part of bauhausWORLD. The search for the secret of Bauhaus’s enduring success leads all the way to Japan - a journey illustrating how the forced closure of the school that drove the movement into exile served to spread its philosophy around the world.
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[@DI3GOskill]

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Hi Diego, we know how you feel! Fortunately this addiction is socially approved. Stay tuned & enjoy!

[@MrAnperm]

Same

[@takundakangai2291]

The Bauhaus School. I cannot think of another fitting example of Goethe's adage, that "Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music." Thanks DW!!!

[@williamcutting5224]

If you ask me, there's little in this world more enjoyable than DW Docs. I'm so excited for a 3 part series on Bauhaus! Thank you DW.

[@beavr1]

yikes dude.

[@miyojewoltsnasonth2159]

4:23 I love the movement of the "Bauhaus" shadow on the building here.

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@ZANGAKURANGA]

is it available in german?

[@LuisBrudna]

How about a portuguese version?

[@konskift]

Is there a version with German narrator and english subtitles, and no crappy dubbing!!

gracias

[@FerminCoronel]

I can't believe it, the spanish channel has more subs than the main one lol

[@AikenBruce]

Honest and accurate DW puts all other mainstream documentary producers to shame.

[@jamessalem2825]

What makes Bauhaus interesting is the thought/ethos behind the architecture.

[@MM-uw5tt]

The music in the documentary!!!! Praise for the person putting it together

[@angelobugini6771]

Bauhaus World - The Code is a remarkable documentary! I truly did appreciate it so much. Thanks a lot for sharing! Keep it up!

[@hendrickputra3142]

Very great documentary video! Love it so much and thanks for sharing.

[@bioanu]

Thank you for this series about Bauhaus! Also excellent Nana - Polo & Pan music!!

[@cgMediaWorks]

Such inspiring and enlightening work, both the documentary and this enduring school of design. Thank you!

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

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[@ArvindYadav-ul4ol]

🥳😂😂😂

This is the firs time I have heard the Bauhaus Effect, story is quite interesting, thank you for producing and sharing,

[@cycletrade2276]

Excellent. Thanks for the docu

[@alamzeb6342]

Hi, We are your huge fans here, we would suggest that kindly add subtitles to your documentaries for more better illustration and understanding. Thanks a lot

[@williamlane5055]

I love DW. Beautiful documentary on architecture. #Bauhaus love from Canada.

[@Preliminimal]

Thank you ~ excellent program

[@lavendercavern]

The charity shop chairs/desk were so similar to ones in my own home! We had those exact stripes and lion feet on our old dining table, and we had the brown 50s chair. Even stranger were the light wooden wrapped desk and table, I have a desk clearly from the same designer in my room as mine is just a larger version! I love the piece think it's brilliant.

[@PuPuSin]

I visited Berlin and found so many beautiful Bauhaus buildings. It was like dream comes true for an Art lover.

[@singha6]

Thank you for a great documentary and the good use of Kraftwerk music! Also, it's lovely to hear the Japanese people speak English without the patronising subtitles (as often used by the BBC and Channel 4 without any need).

[@nusaibahibraheem8183]

Subtitles are patronizing? thats just silly. English is not my first language and I will not be offended if a native doesn't understand me fully. If Native English speakers were speaking my language, I might also need them to be subtitled.

[@readygi]

thanks so much, this video is incredible. loved the peek to the current creatives.

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@monckeywrench4823]

Thanks for sharing this video,,enlightening my mind to resurrect myself as an arch designer.

[@ArchitectureWorld]

wow ...........very informative documentary

[@DavidDowdy877]

Excellent!Enjoyed!

[@mar.ian_]

I love your documentaries, DW! (and your german courses!) (i think the english subtitles aren't fit correctly)

[@adam-mcclure]

Excellent documentary!

[@Sachinsk03]

Pure Knowledge Source. Thanks to All Team DW Doc. Team is really doing a GREAT job.

[@perrycomeau2627]

Very cool. And that is we all need.

[@mafor7934]

Awesome Art & Design Simply Elegant.

[@kokorot17]

well done @DW i thought this was going to be a history lesson .. it is really well done!

[@larailariabraconi4611]

Thanks!

[@EdwardHopperNightHawks]

...simply timeless :)

[@MrPetermc199]

Very interesting documentary

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi @Peter Christensen, thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

[@bingeltube]

Very recommendable

[@mrknowmyself]

DW news tell me how you make these sets of episodes? It is so beautifulll.

[@martamaya9957]

Muy bueno, bien documentado, me gusta el enfoque. Gracias

[@dish_care]

My future dream is to work with this venture. Welcome to Ancient Germany , Credit goes to DW doc

[@megamillionfreak]

This is not ancient Germany.

[@makonduchiyesu7021]

Inspiring

[@latnboii]

My favorite! I love Germany

[@perrycomeau2627]

Bauhaus is an inspiration for the 21st century.

[@ItaloFineArt]

Fantastic History

[@artislife2621]

I this design at the Clinton Library in Little Rock Arkansas, it was a special exhibition, I’ve known this style as far as I can remember, I just didn’t know what it was called. This video is very well done.

[@maxfowler8838]

TRacklisting ...!!! was that a Galaxy 2 Galaxy track i just heard ?! crazy

[@_deeno_]

The Blaze juvenile track at 7:00

[@Commentator541]

I love my Neufert book!!!!

[@paquitok.7219]

Thanks for uploading this documentary. I love buildings and hence in a way architecture. I love bulky yet clean lines of bauhaus. It exposes some raw materials and shapes. Also very inspiring to watch selection of artists/architects

[@manjulachithanandar6051]

Super

[@irenefeldstedt1295]

manjula Chithanandar k

[@samforshaw7964]

great band

[@bigdickmcgee3293]

I learned what a chair fetish looks like.

[@prashanth5292]

Proud to be a Bauhaus University student 😊😊

[@the_9ent]

Bauhaus is life

[@oscarlopezruffy]

master!!!

[@sebastianwalls7001]

This makes me want to move to Germany.

[@rudibasabasi]

DW did it again ! DW's always do : )

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi rudi, thanks - supposed you mean the good things we do...

[@johnnulf624]

25:02-25:08 THAT SYNTH 🔥

[@johnnulf624]

@m.o I looked up the song and (as cool as the video was) I didn't not hear any such synth part.

[@johnnulf624]

@m.o There it is! Thanks so much, I tried shazamming it and couldn't get anything.

[@mulllhausen]

4:16 nils frahm - a place

[@Oldhogleg]

The bottom line is that it's about "Imagination" as apposed to "Doctrine", "Poeticness" as apposed to "Utilitarianism", being visually "Alive" by making the "Stagnant" appear dynamic, The fundamental difference between "Illustrative" Art and "Fine" Art is that one is dead and the other is alive! The same goes for Architecture that can be either "illustrative" of a theme, or "Alive" with visual poetry! The problem is that the vast majority of architects being produced lack the aptitude for imagination and rely on recycling design themes that came before them either disguised as "Revival" or as the "Seudo Nuevo Yuppie Industrial Radical" look! It's no mistake that buildings these days looks like "student design exercise assignments"!

[@13minutestomidnight]

Ironically, I think Bauhaus actually redefined utilitarianism, creating a different standard for what is really best for the majority of people - mostly those working in industry. Bauhaus changed the way people thought about learning, studying and working, and new possibilities for new ways of using space and living, and slowly the underlying fundamentals of a lot of their ideas changed the standards for how people were expected to work (and even what was an unacceptable way for people to have to work).

[@Oldhogleg]

@@13minutestomidnight Absolutely. What I have observed all these decades is that today's architects hide their lack of talent behind "design isms"; which is why everything looks like "student design class exercise assignments". The word "Architect" means master builder. In centuries past architects were both Artists AND Craftsman. But today they are neither Artists, nor Craftsman; but are little more than over glorified decorators. The original Bauhaus was in it's time fresh and new, and done with a poetic eye by talented people. But soon after it's original founding it became an "ism" to be recycled over and over again by no talent architects and technocratic social engineers. It's a sad thing that today's architects never built a thing with their own hands, and lack the artistic ability to freehand draw anything without it looking that of an awkward two year old scribble; That is especially true for today's CAD generation.

[@iraklimaglakelidze7469]

@@Oldhogleg I think that your conclusion of talentless architects hiding their flaws in design choices should also be true regarding former bauhaus members and other modernists. The very reason why contemporary architects create the way they do and somehow survive in this industry is that whole architectural movement was compromised by early modernists. Walter Gropius could not draw properly or Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris aka Le Corbusier was very bad in classical and traditional styles, just look up for his designs, if you are weak there, in a design language, where everything is already established and your only task is to follow instructions, rules and have some taste, then how are you gonna create something systematically better. Modernists truly found a new language to articulalate spaces, but you can see it with your eyes, there idealistic worldview just made an excuse and justification for uglyness. Maybe you think they were better than modern architects and their designes were somehow aesthetically pleasing, it's your choice and taste, which unfortunatelly is composed of mostly carcentric, unpleasant, modernist enviroment, combined with totalitarian rudness and arrogance of art and architectural worlds. Nowadays architects and academic world are both still preaching those modernist priciples and philosophically are still there in your admired 1930-1950s, the ideology has not changed, but plastic and other fancy materials got cheap.

[@Oldhogleg]

@@iraklimaglakelidze7469 A lot of that you're saying is true. What I'm seeing regardless of who's doing it, is the use of ism's to hide a lack of talent/aptitude for the craft/art. A classic example I've seen for decades in the art world is using such isms such as abstract nonobjectives to hide the fact that their skill to do anything more objective is embarrassingly infantile.

[@iraklimaglakelidze7469]

@@Oldhogleg I agree, you can see same trends in politics and even social "sciences". Labling is both their defence and weapon, such isms are destroing careers and creating echo chambers. My first university was full with those kinds of people and I was sort of ostricised for my "old fashioned views" regarding pre modernist architecture as better alternative for future.

[@lucasjames7524]

20:44 - "Hollaback Girl" instrumental! :-O

[@SoCalFreelance]

I like the Italian's passion for design, like Pininfarina, Gucci, Fendi, Ducati, etc.

[@chorreadoYT]

Hallo! Could somebody help me please? Some days ago, I´ve watched DW on demand, in certain program capsule, they visited a chocolate shop decorated with Bauhaus style in Berlin, I would like to know what program was or which place it is since I´m in Berlin and I´m interested in both chocolate and Bauhaus movement. thank you so much in advance.

[@MegaCheese48]

Music Credits or playlist please for all the music used in this documentary? I've found some of the songs because I was already familiar with the artist or I used sound hound. But I am still not able to find all of the artists used in this doc. Please help!

[@shathaa98]

Thank you for this interesting documentary. It is very informative. I refer to the part that talks about Yanone Kaffeesatz designing the typeface of Amman. Of course, I am citing the website of this video. But I am wondering if I need your permission to do that. My work has not been published yet, and I thought of asking you before taking my work to the next step. Thank you!

[@TheEmpress1768]

The second episode cannot come fast enough.

[@DWDocumentary]

Hi John, thanks! Your wish will be fulfilled next Sunday and the next next Sunday...Stay tuned!

[@miaodekat5918]

is there any undubed version but with subtitles instead?

[@archawacademy]

👍👍👍عالی

[@brunoamaral4759]

The Blaze, NTO, Daft Punk, even the soundtrack of this documentary it’s a bit sort of Bauhaus isn’t?

[@dan-andreinafureanu6046]

35:02 is that a techno mix of Pink Floyd "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"?

[@talatanand7103]

Yes. By a group called Bedouin. One hell of a remix!

[@ff_user]

Pretty good! 👏🏻

[@TaylorMade0730]

The baby at 16:24 😂😂😂

[@dfmunoz5205]

Subtitles>voice-over

[@Sanpedranoazul]

We all had a Neufert edition, I need a new one already 😂

[@muhammadbello9608]

#Interesting

[@SquakingOfTheCrows]

The British-Nigerian designers work is very nice, but I didn't know this show is such a feature on him. I would hve prefered to learn more about the history of Bauhaus. & I know ppl who dislike this comment will work to connect his work to Bauhaus + look - I DO see the connections, but this doc is too much bout this one arist + not enough of an overview of the movement.

[@caremell]

The real estaters in Turkey made a mark in history by building on imposible lands and as a result leading so many videos of "retaining wall collapse" yeah it is their thing.

[@jamesjung4434]

Could you let me know what the intro piano bgm is?

[@Fourbasher61]

Voice overs are soo obnoxious, why no subtitles?

[@arksector]

Do you think americans can read???

[@gordonspicer]

Paper back in English with many images. "Bauhaus Tel Aviv" by Nahoum Cohen . Published by Batsford. 275 Pages. Recomended to all who love Bauhaus/ GS

[@walsadosangma6653]

3:02 cane would be a more suitable word for the material

[@hectorrivera2997]

Good fine.

[@AlexandreSoma]

Whose song is that between 8:50 and 9:30? Someone knows? Thanks!

[@MondeSerenaWilliams]

Anyone knows what's the name of the first background music?

[@RuchiSingh-qd9jp]

Which musical track is playing in background, from timecode 25:20 - 26:20? I hear it several times at random places and I really like that music, but don't know the track/artist name?

[@RuchiSingh-qd9jp]

@m.o wow, thanks a lot

[@mojcakrivec295]

Does anybody know the name of the song from 2:10??

[@LaGrandeBayou]

Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m quite certain Mies Van der Rohe wasn’t going around Berlin flea markets finding perfectly functional chairs, reupholstering them and calling it a day. . What he’s doing is what we call “crafters” or Arts n Crafts “decoration“ in the USA. Building a chair from raw materials (cardboard, concrete, plywood) is something entirely different. Joseph Albers would be cringing at this guy Gropius too. Also the Bauhaus was impactful for its *timing* don’t forget Germany post WWI was a dire hell hole of industrialization particularly in the North. So it was screaming for an esthetic that includes the *human* angle to y’all areas of design. This was needed to diminish all of the hard exhausting coldness of buildings and social environments of pre WWII Germany. This is why they went apeshit crazy making entire walls ( and even entire office buildings) almost exclusively of glass. In a nutshell it was the first time in history that the “materials” allowed you the luxury of going with all glass walls which allowed the much revered sun into their work and living spaces like never before in the history of Architecture.

[@iraklimaglakelidze7469]

*cough cough* "chrystal palace", "Grand trianon", art nouveau building "old england" and many other mid 19th century orangeries and palaces are they joke to you? Of course they used some stone, metal and bricks, but early modernists did so as well using concrete. In regards to desperate society in germany, I would agree, they were crazy enough to go full glass and concrete for residental and daily office life.

[@ketoking9435]

Bauhaus has influenced the 20th century,,,Clean,Fresh,aesthetic I'd rather this than clutter,disorder,, Bauhaus is the magic of form and function,,Great documentary,,,

[@caresseofficial6741]

those zooms are funny

[@VladimirTrajanovski]

19:54 - Нојферт: Архитектонско проектирање (a Macedonian edition of the book).

[@sonalkumararya7561]

31:48 by Mies Van Der who?! 😅

[@ingejustavanderhelm5208]

15:16 that way of shared living would not work in the Netherlands, because we are very fond of our privacy and our own house and things.

[@theaghasaif]

@25:40 England manager Gareth Southgate?!

[@cliffdariff74]

Did they define the term Bauhaus?

[@tushar1594]

16:23 omg

[@perrycomeau2627]

The Dakota apartments are Bauhaus.

[@sidneyhauser1750]

god the editing ....

[@aurelieb3966]

Do you know how to write the textil designer's name? It sound like "Kasha koohasko" or something like that, but my skills in german is not good enough to guess her name.

[@DWDocumentary]

Dear Aurélie, thank you for your comment. The name of the designer is Kasia Kucharska. Best, DW Documentary

[@rr7firefly]

2:10 to 4:21 -- what does any of that furniture have to do with the Bauhaus? (a distraction from the subject matter)

[@SquakingOfTheCrows]

I feel the same way. Weird way to start a documentary.

[@michaelharris5746]

Bauhaus world the effect.

[@Jim-Tuner]

The cornerstone of Bauhaus was oppressive uniformity and the industrialization of the personal. Its continuing appeal is based on its low costs.

[@melissaroscher1080]

rescinding and reaction of the arts and crafts movement

[@Jim-Tuner]

​@@melissaroscher1080 Yes. Very true. Bauhaus represented the rejection of arts, crafts and any sort of asthetic.. Bauhaus replaced them with the rules of industrial production: Standardization and material utility above all else.

[@pervertt]

Except it's not. Bauhaus appeals to those who elevate function over frivolous form. The success of Apple and its high priced products refutes the argument that Bauhaus is appealing because it is cheap. Jonathan Ive is an admirer of Dieter Rams and a clear disciple of the Bauhaus school.

[@Jim-Tuner]

Bauhaus has nothing to do with apple or its products. Apple has always been about form over function and demanding premium prices via aggressive branding. "Jonathan Ive" is a master of the visual design of plastic cases, but his design decisions have little to do with function.

[@abubakarsadiq7994]

@@StephenKershaw1 great analysis

[@koshikiagarwal9958]

In future we will get an assignment of watching it nd making notes on it😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@perrycomeau2627]

I live Tel Aviv.