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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...

Kisairis Espinal  Glass Pavilion The Glass is located at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition designed by Bruno Taut in 1914. This is a prismatic glass dome structure constructed using concrete and glass. The façade has colored glass plates that act as mirrors and reflect everything around it. The architect Bruno describes his project as a “little temple of beauty” the reason he refers to it like because it has changed color through time, it started with a dark blue to rose to moss green and golden yellow. This is Taut best known architectural achievement know throughout his whole career, he designed this for an exhibition in 1914 for the industry association. The whole purpose of this element was to show that throughout architecture the using of glass can be explored in many different ways, he also related it to human emotion of a spiritual utopia.             This pavilion was shaped like a pineapple with...