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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41588#0055
Jadwiga Urbansk
Wroclaw
WUWA-1929.
THE ESTATE OF BRESLAU ’’HOME AND WORKPLACE” EXHIBITION
Besore the First World War there appeared some new artistic movements, questioning the
soundations on which the existing development os architecture, town-planning, and industrial design
were based. Lise, which aster the war underwent changes, called sor changes in the housing industry.
Architects os the European avant-garde tried to create a common block, to exchange their opinions
and publications, persona! contacts and travels.1 The avant-garde Werkbund organization sounded in
1907 in Germany probably gave the origin to this movement. Werkbund w&s to be the meeting place
sor up-to-date producers, architects, and designers cooperating with industry. Its main aim was the
persection os building and the improvement os production quality. Artists, craftsmen, and
industrialists were to cooperate in producing standard value goods having at the some time artistic
values.1 Aster the First World War the building new type popular, sunctional ssats sor broad social
groups became the basic problem sor the Werkbund organization. In the twenties new problems and
challenges sor architecture appeared. In such a situation in 1919 Walter Gropius sounded the Bauhaus
School in Dessau. This school aimed at integrating art with industry and finding a basis for sound
architecture. It presented a completely new approach to the education os artists, craftsmen, designers,
and producers. Walter Gropius continued the tendencies represented by the Werkbund organization
and the programme os his school was their logical consequence. The aim os Bauhaus and Werkbund
was the same, though perhaps the ways os achieving it were slightly disserent. The roots os the
Bauhaus movement may be sought in 1907, when Werkbund was sounded. The members of both
organizations laid stress on industrial designing and its improvement as sar as a esthetic ossect and
suntionality was concerned.
’’During the last generation architecture has become (...) decorative (...). In it^ decadence (...) it has
lost the connection with new techniques and materials (...). We want to create a clear organic
architecture (...). We want architecture adapted to our world os machines, radio, sast cars
— architecture os a clear and sunctional sorm ratio ” — so Walter Gropius wrote in 1923 when
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Wroclaw
WUWA-1929.
THE ESTATE OF BRESLAU ’’HOME AND WORKPLACE” EXHIBITION
Besore the First World War there appeared some new artistic movements, questioning the
soundations on which the existing development os architecture, town-planning, and industrial design
were based. Lise, which aster the war underwent changes, called sor changes in the housing industry.
Architects os the European avant-garde tried to create a common block, to exchange their opinions
and publications, persona! contacts and travels.1 The avant-garde Werkbund organization sounded in
1907 in Germany probably gave the origin to this movement. Werkbund w&s to be the meeting place
sor up-to-date producers, architects, and designers cooperating with industry. Its main aim was the
persection os building and the improvement os production quality. Artists, craftsmen, and
industrialists were to cooperate in producing standard value goods having at the some time artistic
values.1 Aster the First World War the building new type popular, sunctional ssats sor broad social
groups became the basic problem sor the Werkbund organization. In the twenties new problems and
challenges sor architecture appeared. In such a situation in 1919 Walter Gropius sounded the Bauhaus
School in Dessau. This school aimed at integrating art with industry and finding a basis for sound
architecture. It presented a completely new approach to the education os artists, craftsmen, designers,
and producers. Walter Gropius continued the tendencies represented by the Werkbund organization
and the programme os his school was their logical consequence. The aim os Bauhaus and Werkbund
was the same, though perhaps the ways os achieving it were slightly disserent. The roots os the
Bauhaus movement may be sought in 1907, when Werkbund was sounded. The members of both
organizations laid stress on industrial designing and its improvement as sar as a esthetic ossect and
suntionality was concerned.
’’During the last generation architecture has become (...) decorative (...). In it^ decadence (...) it has
lost the connection with new techniques and materials (...). We want to create a clear organic
architecture (...). We want architecture adapted to our world os machines, radio, sast cars
— architecture os a clear and sunctional sorm ratio ” — so Walter Gropius wrote in 1923 when
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