we have control of the horizontal - we have control of the vertical
'design and form - the basic course at the bauhaus' is a very gentle introduction to "the plastic arts" led by an eastern influenced guru figure sincerely engaged in inventing a new jargon
the bauhaus archiv museum of design contains a description of the preliminary course taught by ittens from 1919 - 22. it must have been extremely seductive, particularly when combined with walter gropius declaring that "The ultimate aim of any creative activity is building ... architects, sculptors, painters, we must all become craftsmen again ... no essential difference exists between the artist and the craftsman, the artist is a craftsman of heightened awareness ... But the basis of craftsmanship is indispensible to all artists. It is the prime source of all creative work."
it is an interesting journey from that to 'Death, Life and Libeskind' in which salingaros and hanson can refer to the "insipid, industrial bauhaus style" of concentration camps and point out that daniel libeskind's design for the V&A "is actually composed of lopsided, intersecting cubes, and bears an uncanny resemblance to the 1919 "Wurfel [Dice] Komposition" by johannes itten