BAUHAUS

Soo let's break this down really quickly. BAUHAUS...originally known as Staatliches Bauhaus... is an art school in Germany that was a epicenter for art development. Now you may be thinking...yo its a school, that's the point, to develop. However, what this school does is something COMPLETELY different and new. It has classes that teach fine arts, as many schools do, and it also has trade/craft classes, as again many schools do. But with these classes, they take aspects of both and combine them into a craft-fine art melting pot of awesome.

You can see this melting-pot reference just from its foundations. The idea behind the entire school was meant to create a art work covering all forms of art, or a "total" art piece. This reaches into every aspect such as: painting, sculpting, wood carving, steel work, and even architecture. These different art parts and thinking processes are used to develop every piece that was created with in the confines of this school.

Although the school was eventually forced to close by Nazi Regimes during a time of very high development, it was eventually re-opened and turned into a private school of arts in the 30's. Today, however, moderns architecture and graphic design are living replicas of this school and the works here. Its works have inspired companies like Ikea to invent new works, and even led to contractor constructing buildings with these designs. The designs are very unique, and often time are meant to have a second purpose, or make things easier and more accessible/helpful for human use.