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Such training with hands in multidisciplinary curriculum will create the confidence among the students while exposing them to creativity. He wishes to restrict rigidity in the training. Multidisciplinary training would expose students in various fields that would enrich their knowledge. Students should enjoy individual freedom while maintaining the discipline.
The above manifesto clearly indicates the future remains with research, innovation and experiments. In order to become creative the school has laid down certain basic structural curriculum. They also tried to take design forward from the traditional craft culture to modern design process for industrial production. Therefore, it is imperative that the traditional craft culture has to be replaced by the principles of mass production.
Gropius himself said,"The Bauhaus does not pretend to be a crafts school; contact with industry is consciously sought...the old craft workshops will develop into industrial laboratories: from their experimentation will evolve standards for industrial production...The teaching of a craft is meant to prepare for designing for mass production. Starting with the simplest tools and least complicated jobs, he gradually acquires ability to master more intricate problem and to work with machinery, while at the same time he keeps in touch with the entire process of production from start to finish."
(Ref. http://www.thelearninglab.nl/resources/Bauhaus-manifesto.pdf ; February 26, 2013)
Bauhaus teaching aimed to develop rational principles to determine the compositional organization of type style, white space, colors, etc.
It is worth mentioning the curriculum developed at Bauhaus under the leadership of Walter Gropius in 1919 along with a group of renowned artists, designers and architects teacher at Weimar, Germany
(Ref. http://www.thelearninglab.nl/resources/Bauhaus-manifesto.pdf ; February 26, 2013)
“Range of Instruction
Instruction at the Bauhaus includes all practical and scientific areas of creative work.
A. Architecture,
B. Painting,
C. Sculpture including all branches of the crafts.
Students are trained in a craft (1) as well as in drawing and painting (2) and science and theory (3). |