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 Werkbund Exhibition,1914,Gropius 

Werkbund exhibition was held in Germany at 1914. Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer are the designers who designed the model factory of exhibition. There are also other designers who designed model theater and etc. German government funded for the whole exhibition and they spent nearly 5 million dollars on this exhibition during 1914. The exhibition was started on May 5^th 1914 supposed to be finish by October but shut it down early on August due to World War I and there were two more Werkbund exhibition after that.

Werkbund exhibition often described “The Bauhaus Exhibition” even though it’s not the exhibition that Bauhaus was doing. Gropius himself coordinated the display of the German architecture in collaboration with the former Bauhaus teachers like Marcel Breuer, Herbert Bayer, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Some of them also ex Bauhaus students. So, the exhibition was an exclusively show of the work of former Bauhaus designers. Gropius and Breuer had a series of linked model rooms, and Bayer also had some contemporary German products. He also displayed lighting technique that associated with the Bauhaus. He also had a section allemande of a multi-story collective apartment block designed and furniture by Marcel Breuer. Under Gropius the Bauhaus embraced not only the new industrial design we all know, but also the politics situation in German. 

       Section allemande was considered the most successful and fully developed presentation of the mature Bauhaus idea. The most outstanding display in the exhibition was the communal areas for a ten-story apartment block and it has a series of lightweight high tech structure in steel and glass. Breuer also added a five model rooms for a communal apartment which has a two bedsitting rooms for a single woman and a man, also it has an office, kitchen, and bathroom. The individual rooms that Breuer created was to be read by the visitors as part of the same high-rise development. The room that Breuer created had a lot of furniture with geometry shapes.

 

         Gropius believes in functionality and simplicity by using mass-produced steel, chrome, and glass in the factories and office buildings he designed. He thinks that it was the only efficient and sensible to use mass-produced materials, it also creates spaces where people of all economic and social classes could mix.A lot of things happening in this exhibition was also related to the political situation in Germany, however; the commentator from the France didn’t know much about the political information and how the designs and displays from the exhibition is connected to each other. Many French commentators and critics reacted to the Breuer’s two bedsitting rooms as “cells as hygienic, as clean and as attractive as a dentist’s surgery”, and including this and the rooms designed by Breuer and Gropius were reproduced in many of the French art and design covers in the high-quality and it was a black and white reproduction of the period. The rooms that Breuer and Gropius created was for the high and low rise housing that dominated Frankfurt the previous year and in Brussels a few months after the exhibition closed.

Citation  

    “Werkbund Exhibition (1914).” Wikiwand, www.wikiwand.com/en/Werkbund_Exhibition_(1914).

     Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Deutscher Werkbund.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 20 July 2015, www.britannica.com/topic/Deutscher-Werkbund.