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bauhaus-archiv museum of design - bauhaus 1919 - 1933 - architecture (247 words) |
 | In 1919, the Bauhaus manifesto proclaims that the ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building. |
| During the directorship of Walter Gropius, the work was mainly in his office, since the setting-up of an architecture class had been delayed. |
| Their very individual conception of building, however, cannot be jointly coined: quite on the contrary, they must be seen as exponents of strongly divergent architectural concepts. |
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history_uo architecture (970 words) |
| It was the first school to adopt completely two basic elements of the "modern" movement in architectural education, an affiliation with the allied arts (painting, crafts and sculpture), rather than with engineering, and a non-competitive, individual approach to learning. |
| Willcox's theory of education included an underlying premise that architecture was, along with other arts, an expression of the values, aspirations and character of the society which produced it. |
| In 1919, the UO architecture program was accepted as a member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, an early form of accreditation. |
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