Bauhaus was a mistake. An evolutionary tail that should have ended.
We lost all sense of beauty and craftsmanship. The same emptiness everywhere.
I’d rather have a Louis XIV chair mass produced for everyone.
Listen, I love the baroque and rococo but Bauhaus is gorgeous. It's far better than 90% of the offerings of brutalism.
Best of Brutalism is like a being one eyed in a group of blind.
But yes agree that well done bauhaus can be gorgeous. Just usually not.
Have you read Tom Wolfe's "From Bauhaus to Our House"? It is a great critique of Bauhaus architecture. I really love Bauhaus buildings when they stand in contrast to other styles, but when you have a skyline dominated by lesser Bauhaus knockoffs, it is pretty boring and bleak.
No, but will read.
I guess what we need is contrast, from glass cubes.
Maybe bauhaus is like cactus. It makes sense in a garden. But a whole garden of them, feels despondent.