Possibly the school of architecture and most influential arts of the 20th and 21st century, was the Bauhaus . His way of seeing art, of teaching, to relate to society and technology has endured and crossed borders to the present day, and that, which was closed under Nazi pressure in 1933.
The Bauhaus style is recognizable practically instantly by everyone connected with the architecture and art, but we can still learn a lot from this such a unique institution.
This week, Google Arts & Culture which is an open cultural platform created by experts from all over the world who inquire into topics of history, art, painting, etc. and to celebrate the end of the centenary of the Bauhaus, has just launch Bauhaus Everywhere . more than 10,000 objects and digitized 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 the educational platform of Google combined with new technologies we can have a 360° immersion into the Bauhaus universe with two clicks, as in the article on how to create a Tour Virtual free.
You can take a tour and explore with reality virtual (VR) the Bauhaus building in Dessau and three emblematic buildings of the Bauhaus with reality augmented reality (AR) (See article reality applications augmented for architecture): The Round House by Carl Fieger, the BAMBOS residential project by Marcel Breuer, and the Casa Eduard Ludwig's patio and a series of animated videos on YouTube about the influence of the Bauhaus on architecture, furniture and design .
In the creation of the Bauhaus Everywhere, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation , and six other high profile institutions: FAGUS Factory, World Heritage UNESCO, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, IIT Institute of Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2 exhibitions), Getty Research Institute (1 exhibition), Museum of Design Excellence (Indian).
In addition, within the same platform, experts in the theme have created 45 exhibitions on life student at the Bauhaus , about the connections of the Bauhaus with Japan, India, Brazil, on women at 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 in one look at the main buildings of the movement Bauhaus Around the World (The White City of Tel-Aviv and the new Bauhaus in Chicago) and stop at each one, accompanied by its corresponding information detailed.
Pocket Gallery's augmented reality feature, which allows you to explore the inside and outside of three structures only ones from the Bauhaus that remained in a dusty drawer.
One is the Bambos house . A structure metal that was supposed to be built in front of the building of the Bauhaus, which comes from a series of buildings residences and studios imagined by Marcel Breuer for his colleagues and himself.
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 the maximum fidelity to their sizes, shapes and materials.
Thanks to the technology of the AR Kit (iPhone) or the ARCore (Android) , the phone's camera detects the position and allows real-time adjustment of perspective, the size of the model and the angle with respect to our movement, to place the miniature model of the building wherever you literally want.
According to the director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dr. Claudia Perren..»The Digitization allows us to make a part of our collection is accessible throughout the world and to all while free of third party rights»
Among the online exhibitions, there is one that reconstructs the life as a student at the Bauhaus under the direction of Walter Gropius , while director Claudia Perren explains the skyscraper Mies van der Rohe Glass, the famous photo de Brauer with students and more school icons. Also there are 5 animated videos that demystify key aspects of the Bauhaus and allow us to understand how its influence is seen in the news.
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 find more than 100 books from the world of architecture and its different disciplines legally and totally free.
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