The Bauhaus Everywhere digital school
Possibly the school of architecture and arts most influential of the 20th and 21st century, was the Bauhaus. His way of seeing art, teaching, relating to society and technology has endured and crossed borders to this day, and that, which was closed under Nazi pressure in 1933.
The bauhaus style It is recognizable practically instantly by anyone related to architecture and art, but we can still learn a lot from this unique institution.
This week, Google Arts & Culture which is an open cultural platform created by experts from around the world who investigate topics of history, art, painting, etc. and to celebrate the end of the Bauhaus centenary, it has just launched Bauhaus Everywhere. More than 10,000 digitized objects and images accessible to everyone with many other resources.
The exhibition reflects a detailed review of the mythical German school in its different disciplines; modern architecture, art, painting, furniture, materials, etc. in addition to providing other options thanks to Google's digital skills.
With the contributions of Google's educational platform combined with new technologies we can have a 360 ° immersion of the Bauhaus universe with two clicks, as in the article on how to create a free Virtual Tour.
You can take a tour and explore the building with virtual reality (VR) Bauhaus in Dessau and three emblematic buildings of the Bauhaus with augmented reality (AR) (See article on augmented reality applications for architecture): The Round House by Carl Fieger, the residential project BAMBOS by Marcel Breuer, and the Patio House by Eduard Ludwig and a series of animated videos on YouTube about the Bauhaus influence on architecture, furniture and design.
In the creation of Bauhaus Everywhere, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, and six other high-profile institutions: FAGUS Factory, UNESCO World Heritage, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, IIT Institute of Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2 exhibitions), Getty Research Institute (1 exhibition), Museum of Design Excellence (India).
In addition, within the same platform, experts on the subject have created 45 exhibitions on student life at the Bauhaus, about the international connections of the Bauhaus with Japan, India, Brazil, about women in the Bauhaus or about design icons.
The well-known Street view will take us to visit the bowels of the school, other buildings and workshops given different viewing and movement options.
With the Google Earth Voyager Tour it is possible to locate at a glance the main buildings of the Bauhaus movement around the world (The White City of Tel-Aviv and the new Bauhaus in Chicago) and stop at each one, accompanied by their corresponding detailed information.
Pocket Gallery's augmented reality feature, allowing you to explore the interior and exterior of three unique Bauhaus structures left in a dusty drawer.
One is the Bambos house. A metal structure that was supposed to be built in front of the Bauhaus building, which comes from a series of residential and studio buildings envisioned by Marcel Breuer for himself and his colleagues.
The second, the little Rundhaus could be assembled with just 16 lightweight, self-supporting panels and its standardized components attracted much attention among experts a century ago, while the Eduard Ludwig Courthouse it is an example of aligned houses, a typical task of Mies van der Rohe's teaching.
His plans, his notes, his posters, his sketches have been recovered from the old archives and reinterpreted by Bauhaus experts with a team of architects and engineers who have created augmented reality models with maximum fidelity to their sizes, shapes and materials. .
Thanks to the AR Kit (iPhone) or ARCore (Android) technology, the camera of the phone detects the position and allows the adjustment in real time of the perspective, the size of the model and the angle with respect to our movement, to place the miniature model of the building where you literally want.
According to the director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dr. Claudia Perren… »Digitization allows us to make a part of our collection accessible throughout the world and for everyone, being free of third-party rights»
Among the online exhibits, there is one that reconstructs life as a student at the Bauhaus under the direction of Walter Gropius, while director Claudia Perren explains the Mies van der Rohe Glass skyscraper, Brauer's famous photo with students and more school icons. There are also 5 animated videos that demystify key aspects of the Bauhaus and provide insight into what its influence looks like today.
We can access the Google Arts and Culture project from Bauhaus Everywhere here and we remember that if you are interested in learning more stories, we wrote an article on how to find more than 100 books from the world of architecture and its different disciplines legally and totally free .
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