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Article: Bauhaus origins.(Book Review)
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- The Architectural Review
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- January 1, 2006
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BEFORE THE BAUHAUS
By John V. Maciuika. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. [pounds sterling]55
The very title of this book is an act of protest, underlining its claim that the Bauhaus did not spring independently into existence as reported by Gropius, but grew rather out of a developing tradition of art schools that took place across Germany. Many Bauhaus 'innovations' had already occurred elsewhere, in one or other of the cities where culture developed in parallel in that recently united country: Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Darmstadt, Breslau. That the Bauhaus was influenced by the English Arts and Crafts as Pevsner claimed in Pioneers is ...
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