{"id":21219,"date":"2018-12-28T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=21219"},"modified":"2018-12-27T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T18:09:22","slug":"ihbcs-free-modernist-cpd-boost-for-your-new-year-open-culture-flags-bauhaus-books-and-journals-to-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21219","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s FREE Modernist \u2018CPD boost\u2019 for your New Year: Open Culture flags Bauhaus books and journals to download"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Anyone can download beautifully designed Bauhaus books & journals for free, including from luminaries such as Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy & more.<\/h3>\n
image: Monoskop.org<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Open Culture<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

In 1919, German architect Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus, the most influential art school of the 20th century. Bauhaus defined modernist design and radically changed our relationship with everyday objects. Gropius wrote in his manifesto Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar that \u201cThere is no essential difference between the artist and the artisan.\u201d His new school, which featured faculty that included the likes of Paul Klee, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, did indeed erase the centuries-old line between applied arts and fine arts.<\/p>\n

Bauhaus architecture sandblasted away the ornate flourishes common with early 20th century buildings, favoring instead the clean, sleek lines of industrial factories. Designer Marcel Breuer reimagined the common chair by stripping it down to its most elemental form. Herbert Bayer reinvented and modernized graphic design by focusing on visual clarity. Gunta St\u00f6lzl, Marianne Brandt and Christian Dell radically remade such diverse objects as fabrics and tea kettles.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, of course, getting one of those Bauhaus tea kettles, or even an original copy of Gropius\u2019s manifesto, would cost a small fortune. Fortunately for design nerds, typography mavens and architecture enthusiasts everywhere, the good folks over at Monoskop have posted online a whole set of beautifully designed publications from the storied school.<\/p>\n

Click\u00a0here<\/a><\/u>\u00a0to pick out individual works. Sadly, though, you can\u2019t download a teakettle.<\/p>\n

The list of Books\u00a0in the Monoskop Bauhaus archive includes:<\/p>\n