From Bauhaus to Our House
Based on the readings from “From Bauhaus to Our House” by Tom Wolfe, I’ve got a clearer insight on the subject of Modern Architecture and its context. Furthermore, the text were amusingly enjoyable and very easy to read with Wolfe’s occasional humor inserted throughout the article.
From the reading, Tom Wolfe’s criticizes the movement of Modern Architecture that migrated from Europe. After World War I was over, Europeans wanted to have a new take on things, hence, “starting from zero” and recreating the world after a terrible war. Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus (House of Construction) School where young architects and artists learn to “start from zero”. The Bauhaus was created having two objectives in mind:
- To create for the workers.
- To reject all things “bourgeois”.
To further clarify about “bourgeois”, it simply means ‘of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.’ Because of ‘Bourgeois’, the act of rebellious attitudes towards a traditional, say, having a high pitched roof. However, there has never been a clear definition weather what is considered ‘Bourgeois’ or ‘not Bourgeois’ that it become so vague and nasty to the architects of that age being criticized of having a bourgeois design.
The stream of this movement includes a use of new materials to architecture, blending in concrete, steel, wood, glass, and stucco. and staying on a rather neutral tone such as white, beige, gray, and black.
One of the earliest works of the self-taught architect Tadao Ando is the Azuma House in Sumiyoshi, where the house is split into a spaces devoted to daily life (composed of an austere geometry) by the insertion of an abstract space for the games of wind and light. His goal, he says, was to introduce a question on the inertia that has invaded human dwellings.
Although there’s not a definite guideline to being a non-bourgeois architect, Tadao Ando, the architect I’m working on is clearly one of the avant-garde of the movements. His design of the renowned Azuma House is distinctly bourgeois with the blending of concreate, wood and glass with a raw-gray color of a concrete. It stands out among its conventional context of the rowhouses in that time and at the same time, blends in to the environment.
Tadao Ando’s design follows every principles of Le Courbusier who Ando practically learned everything from by reading a book about him.
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