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

[@DI3GOskill]

I'm an addict to all documentaries you develop guys thanks for sharing online.

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

[@MrAnperm]

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[@hellyeahsaul]

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[@miyojewoltsnasonth2159]

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

[@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.

[@MM-uw5tt]

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

[@PuPuSin]

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

[@mrt4575]

As an architect if i design something even close to bauhaus or mid century lines my clients ask "can it be more like a home?" meaning they ask for some classical, neo-classical or oriental design... Then i gently show them the door... Architects supposed to have sleepless nights and design budget issues, not infringing tastes of upstarts... Gosh...! :) Enjoying the profession after 20 years though... :)

[@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!!!

[@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.

[@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,

[@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.

[@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.

[@angelobugini6771]

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

[@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

[@perrycomeau2627]

Bauhaus is an inspiration for the 21st century.

[@easygii]

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

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[@hendrickputra3142]

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

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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

[@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.

[@cycletrade2276]

Excellent. Thanks for the docu

[@williamlane5055]

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

[@bioanu]

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

[@perrycomeau2627]

Very cool. And that is we all need.

[@adam-mcclure]

Excellent documentary!

[@EdwardHopperNightHawks]

...simply timeless :)

[@mafor7934]

Awesome Art & Design Simply Elegant.

[@Sachinsk03]

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

[@prashanth5292]

Proud to be a Bauhaus University student 😊😊

[@monckeywrench4823]

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

[@latnboii]

My favorite! I love Germany

[@Preliminimal]

Thank you ~ excellent program

[@kokorot17]

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

[@sebastianwalls7001]

This makes me want to move to Germany.

[@DavidDowdy877]

Excellent!Enjoyed!

[@maxfowler8838]

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

[@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.

[@mar.ian_]

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

[@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.

[@ArchitectureWorld]

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

[@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

[@dfmunoz5205]

Subtitles>voice-over

[@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.

[@ItaloFineArt]

Fantastic History

[@martamaya9957]

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

[@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,,,

[@larailariabraconi4611]

Thanks!

[@_deeno_]

The Blaze juvenile track at 7:00

[@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

[@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!

[@mrknowmyself]

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

[@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.

[@lucasjames7524]

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

[@rr7firefly]

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

[@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.

[@Commentator541]

I love my Neufert book!!!!

[@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

[@brunoamaral4759]

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

[@bingeltube]

Very recommendable

[@VladimirTrajanovski]

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

[@miaodekat5918]

is there any undubed version but with subtitles instead?

[@SoCalFreelance]

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

[@The_Low_Level_Guy_0x00]

Inspiring

[@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

[@ruzzelladrian907]

Why people hate Bahaus and Modern Architecture? Because Modern Architecture is devoid of past ideologies and cultures. People are still holding on to traditions.

[@absoluteinfinity1197]

cuz they look ugly and lifeless. I prefer the richness of Renaissance architecture. and plus what's wrong if a society doesn't want to accept the universal world order and stick to its own culture? why can't the globalists stick to their own business

[@lilylittlemonster5]

It rejected a universal truth: We need our traditions in order to feel connection to our culture, ancestors and to each other.

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

@BenkethePirate northern renaissance N

[@danielfredich1530]

@@absoluteinfinity1197 So true!

[@rudibasabasi]

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

[@DWDocumentary]

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

[@the_9ent]

Bauhaus is life

[@ff_user]

Pretty good! 👏🏻

[@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.

[@ranggantengblas]

3:02 🧑🏾‍🦱: bambooo!! 🧓🏼: no dude.. that is a rattan 😪

[@samforshaw7964]

great band

[@Fourbasher61]

Voice overs are soo obnoxious, why no subtitles?

[@arksector]

Do you think americans can read???

[@MisterJeffy]

Who wrote this? The Bauhaus didn't influence Kandinsky. He was one of its instructors.

[@goldenmath4091]

In the search for beauty, we find pragmatism It's in your soul

[@walsadosangma6653]

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

[@AlexandreSoma]

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

[@manjulachithanandar6051]

Super

[@irenefeldstedt1295]

manjula Chithanandar k

[@perrycomeau2627]

The Dakota apartments are Bauhaus.

[@theeskrungly]

I like the part where bauhaus flipped off hitler and proceeded to bauhaus all over the place. Truely based.

[@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!

[@Sanpedranoazul]

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

[@melissaroscher1080]

Heard through a French Doc that Bauhaus was inspired by US industrial warehouses in the late 1800's (1890's probably)

[@Jim-Tuner]

It was also inspired by the early industrial assembly line factories. In particular the early factories of Henry Ford. They had similar goals in reducing both the costs of construction and the costs of operating buildings.

[@mulllhausen]

4:16 nils frahm - a place

[@MondeSerenaWilliams]

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

[@archawacademy]

👍👍👍عالی

[@jornal-do-madruga2054]

please add subtitles in portugues- brasil

[@sidneyhauser1750]

god the editing ....

[@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.

[@615BlackBarbie]

I love to see *unique* *smart* *black* *men* .

[@cliffdariff74]

Did they define the term Bauhaus?

[@pvarawat]

Yinka seems to be a very nice and tender guy.

[@peterjones9492]

Unfortunately this excellent documentary is spoilt by the intrusive music soundtrack

[@oscarlopezruffy]

master!!!

[@carolinawren3594]

could it be that the overall inspiration for the BauHaus was acknowledging the industrial esthetic - not just for industry but for the residential world as well? As such it presaged the industrial commercial world we live in today. Just as the inspiration for the Baroque was countering the Reformation - where individual small farms, trades and shops were countered by bronze age imperial splendor? Architecture, im grossen und ganzen, is the embodiment of culture rit large. Anyone who doesn't understand that doesn't understand architecture at all.

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

@BenkethePirate *industrial factories

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

You do realize that all those things you listed that ret@rd Luther is not responsible for in the slightest correct?

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

@BenkethePirate yeah I'm sure the modernists were around for castles & fortresses through history

[@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!

[@mojcakrivec295]

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

[@koshikiagarwal9958]

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

[@marcoaslan]

Bauhaus is now everywhere :(((((

[@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

[@desertblbuesman]

Has Bauhaus lost its way?