“a firm commitment to the fusion between art and technology”

Pure form informed by function. Clean, luxury materials. Little color. uniformity. Standardization.

important people: Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Marianne Brandt, Hannes Meyer, Mies van de Rohe, Herbery Beyer

School for the Modern Movement

1908
-evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects

- “The modern ornamentalist is either a cultural laggard of a pathological case. He himself is forced to disown his own work in three years.”

“sought to explore an elemental design vocabulary in their search for a modern harmonious aesthetic”

-primary colors & black and white

-also called neoplasticism

-important people: Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian

-student at Bauhaus 

-teapot

-clock

-light fixures