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The School Of Design That Shaped The World We Live In
The School Of Design That Shaped The World We Live In
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
2019 marks the centenary of the 20th century's most influential design school, the Bauhaus. Hong Kong's only surviving Bauhaus building, the Central Market, faces an uncertain future, but elsewhere around the world the beauty and genius of this Modernist movement is receiving renewed interest and surviving Bauhaus structures are being given the protection they deserve.
100 Years Of Bauhaus
SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute
Bauhaus design principles have continued to remain relevant to this day
Walter Gropius, Mies Van Der Rohe And Marcel Breuer: Designing For America, Shiri Chapman-Daniel
Walter Gropius, Mies Van Der Rohe And Marcel Breuer: Designing For America, Shiri Chapman-Daniel
MA Projects
Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer: Designing for America examines interior and furniture projects by the three European modern designer after emigrating to the U.S. in 1938. Many of these projects are not very well known, or are commonly discussed solely in terms of architecture, yet the interiors in fact reveal interesting and significant developments in Gropius, Mies and Breuer's work. The exhibition highlights the evolution of their designs, as well as the extent to which they were affected by American tendencies and innovations and their lasting impact.