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Strictly true to form Bauhaus designers changed the way the world looked - the tubular steel chair and glass-clad buildings are just two of their triumphs. But, asks ROWAN MOORE, how much fun is there in functionalism?
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OUTSIDE the Design Museum there stands a gorgeous silver car, held
in a look-but-don't-touch glass box like the crown jewels or some
dangerously volatile substance. It is an Audi TT Roadster, to be
obtained only after 18 months on a waiting list and by handing over
30,000 with a crisp swish of a credit card. It is the contemporary
class system on wheels. I'm rich, it says, and you're not.
It's also a message from the sponsor, as Audi is backing an
exhibition inside the museum of a group of squabbling, strong-minded
German mavericks who 80 years ago declared they would build "the new ...
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Architecture: Understatement of the century The Dessau Bauhaus took traditional art and design skills into the machine age with revolutionary consequences.
; ...should visit the Bauhaus Dessau exhibition at the Design Museum before it closes...director of the Design Museum, puts it: "They...1932, moved the Bauhaus to Berlin and...efforts, the Bauhaus legacy lived on...poster in the Design Museum shop shows a ...
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Citroen to star at Design Museum
; ...Citroen C6 is set to link up with the Design Museum in London as part of a 12-month relationship...institution. The link between Citroen and the Design Museum will focus on a programme of talks...point for its association with the Design Museum talks. Visitors to the Design ...
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Britain and the Bauhaus: Alan Powers challenges the view that the reception of the Bauhaus in 1930s Britain went little futher than providing temporary shelter for some of its teachers. Common roots with the Bauhaus in the Arts and Crafts movement helps to explain a lively British interest in the school's ideals, among not only architects but also designers--and even puppeteers.(Essay)
; ...a familiar story about Britain and the Bauhaus that is still told today. (1) A backward...When applied to three former staff of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and...the facts--and history has awarded the Bauhaus a prime position in the period. But while...
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Chaos at the Design Museum; The reason behind the sudden departure of its director Alice Rawsthorn is a secret plan to move into a new extension beside Tate Modern.
; ...thing that ever happened to London's Design Museum. She turned a dull backwater of a gallery...five-year tenure as director of the Design Museum, former Financial Times design critic...build a new [pounds sterling]50 million Design Museum beside Tate Modern on Bankside. This...
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Trouble at Design Museum as chief Rawsthorn leaves.
; THE DESIGN Museum has parted company with its director...the search for her replacement: The Design Museum announces that it is inviting applications...the post of Director to lead the Design Museum to a new stage in its development...
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A Bow to the Bauhaus's Lighter Side
; ...design pays a debt to the Bauhaus. But colorless, boxy housing...an exhibition at London's Design Museum casts warmer light on the story. It shows clearly that the Bauhaus had two faces: one well intentioned...taught art at the legendary Bauhaus school along with Wassily Kandinsky. "The ...
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Design Special: Behind the scenes at the museum It was the first of its kind when it opened in 1989, but following a high-profile boardroom feud, London's Design Museum is in crisis. Stephen Bayley, who was its first director, lifts the lid on an almighty clash of egos and asks, has this once-dynamic institution had its day?
; ...confident and uncompromising, the Design Museum sits on Butler's Wharf near London...Remember, this was the 1980s. Now the Design Museum is at a point of change. Like a...Strange and wonderful, then, that the Design Museum is now planning a pounds 50m relocation...were routinely said ...
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Focus: You know where you can stick these (and it's not in my museum) Now that the chairman has quit, the Design Museum is in serious trouble, says Stephen Bayley, in a frank personal account of a row that started with flowers ...
; ...has left a vacuum at the top of the Design Museum. Chairmen should not resign. It is...the fugitive meaning of "design". The Design Museum is the most thoughtful monument remaining...Unfortunately, Alice Rawsthorn, the current Design Museum director, does not agree. Rawsthorn...
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Revisioning the Bauhaus.
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AN ILLUMINATING LOOK AT BAUHAUS
; BAUHAUS, an exhibition of art, crafts, graphics and architecture...Institute of Foreign Cultural Relations, Stuttgart, and the Bauhaus Archive. At the MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge...Paul Klee liked to tell his students, and in the lucid Bauhaus show at the MIT Museum through February, you ...
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