Traditions, translations and transfers, direct exchanges and reinterpretations of HfG Bauhaus in Chile

The Bauhaus design school, founded in the city of Weimar in 1919 and closed in Berlin in 1933, has been an essential reference for the entire development of the arts, design and architecture of the twentieth century. But the Bauhaus is not a homogeneous body, and as its founder Walter Gropius insist...

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Main Author: Maulen De Los Reyes, David
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2015
Online Access:https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/article/view/37081
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Summary:The Bauhaus design school, founded in the city of Weimar in 1919 and closed in Berlin in 1933, has been an essential reference for the entire development of the arts, design and architecture of the twentieth century. But the Bauhaus is not a homogeneous body, and as its founder Walter Gropius insisted, one of the aims was student autonomy starting from the contrast of different trends observed in them. During the twentieth century in South America attempts have been made to build an alternative model of modernity, to modify the way of life according to ideas of those who defended the Bauhaus. This paper proposes a general outline of these processes for the Chilean case related to projects within the discipline