Blog 2: Research Statement and Annotated Bibliography

 Research field: "Development of Bauhaus and its effects on other disciplinary design styles from the nineteenth, leading up to the twentieth century."

Bürdek, Bernhard E. 2005. Design: History, theory, and practice of product design. Boston, MA: Birkhauser-           Publishers for Architecture.

Author states Bauhaus as flagship for subsequent development of design, along with ideologies of technology becoming one with craft or rather, how craft requires aid of technology. Visions from the nineteenth century, dark furniture  to be replaced with new forms of accommodations in brighter twentieth century. Development of students studying Bauhaus, broken down into phases. Founding, consolidation  and  disintegration.

Jeffrey L.M. (1925-1939). Industrial Design in America.  Twentieth Century Limited. 85(5). 39-100.

During 1937-2000, Bauhaus begins to have considerable impacts on academics, critics of design, architects, and commercial industrial designers, especially those who had previously known and studies Bauhaus. Aimed to commercialize Bauhaus, new products become of "Bauhaus attraction" with complete redesign of  working mechanisms. Working alongside engineers and consultants became part of standard practice.

Bauhaus-Archiv,Museumfür Gestaltung (Ed). 2009. Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.

Claimed to be future-oriented potency which would have huge direct impact on society. Though constantly orientated towards public though appeals, declarations, exhibitions to draw attention, movement criticized for "too much commotion". Bauhaus school becomes victim by design by trying to immortalize the essence of every object. Morality and principles of Bauhaus change, not as return to functional-ism but instead an instance of  exemplary attitude.

History of Graphic design, A Graphic design primer. 1999. Retrieved from: http://designhistory.org/index.html.

The three locations of Bauhaus, weimar, Dessau, Berlin - Germany. Basics of the Bauhaus Curriculum, elementery experiments with form, workshop training by two masters, one artist one craftsman. Bauhaus on   Graphic Design and Typography. Artists, Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joseph Albers. Women in Bauhaus, women were one quarter of the Bauhaus student body. Alma Buscher, Mariaan Brandt.

Rietveld, G. (1919-49) Red and blue chair.

 Retrieved from: http://www.rolandcollection.com/films/?prm=a12-b95-c0-d1-e0

Bauhaus craft inspired chair that is keeping to rules of the Bauhaus style. Clean, geometric, angular, simple and abstracted.Rietveld aimed for simplicity and functionality in his design, with hope it would go mass production(due to simplicity), rather than hand-crafted.