The Bauhaus - Gillian Naylor - 1969

“Although suppressed by the Germans in 1933 after only 14 years’ precarious existence, the Bauhaus was the most important experiment in design education in this century, and the ideologies, attitudes and teaching methods that were involved there are still relevant today In this book, the first complete history of the movement to be published in paperback form, Gillian Naylor describes how the foundation of the school marks the culmination of all the efforts of reformers, through the 19th and early 20th centuries, to reconcile the values of the artist and those of Industry. Walter Gropius, the school's founder, believed in the ‘fundamental unity underlying all branches of design’, and in order to substantiate this conviction he gathered around him some of the most remarkable talents of his generation. The author describes the crises and controversies that beset the school at Weimar, and shows how the Bauhaus idea, tentatively established there, was consolidated and vindicated in the later years at Dessau, where the intuitive approach to architecture and related problems was gradually replaced by scientific attitudes.” - The Bauhaus - Gillian Naylor Published 1969, Studio Vista Ltd, London Softcover. Approx. 5x7.5in. 159pp. In good vintage condition.