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In its practical agenda, the Bauhaus attempted to reconcile the aesthetic insights of the artist, the quality workmanship of the craftsman, and the technological advances of the machine. It declared that the artist should design in conjunction with the machine or for the machine. Although Kostellow's program was not interested in the crafts, it shared the Bauhaus goal to educate designers for an industrial, machine-driven economy.#2635•
We start by making some three-dimensional sketches of an interesting space, interior or exterior. Use cardboard, foam core, bristol board, bottle caps—any materials that lend themselves to the expression of your idea. Don't think about a specific application at this stage. Just use this opportunity for exploration.
Choose any subject you think you can control as long as it's something that really excites you. You're going to be dealing here with the emotional qualities of space so you must be able to communicate feeling within the space. It might be a static, dynamic, or organic space, or a combination of the three.
In this project, you will be emphasizing positive forms more than you have until now.
Your project should be a ratio of about sixty percent space organization to forty percent positive form, or vice versa.
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