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Article: From Bauhaus to our house: Modernism, 1914-1939.
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- Queen's Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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A crystal glows in golden tones, drawing the eye and the imagination. The crystal is a model, a three-dimensional design in tinted glass, curving close to the earth and, simultaneously, lifting the spirit upward. The structure is a model for a glass pavilion, created by Bruno Taut in 1914 for the Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne, a design that not only examined the potential of glass as a building material but also explored it as a symbol of a utopian future.
This is what first greets the eye of the visitor to Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939 at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. (1) (The exhibition moves next to Germany and then to Washington in ...