Discover and apply design principles using visual elements! This is the central theme of the course, supplemented by principles and elements for developing figures and/or drawings in the cityscape of Weimar. The focus is on composition, perception, creativity and the development of design skills. The course is based on the design language of the Bauhaus.
The circle, the triangle and the square are certainly the most striking iconographic forms of the Bauhaus. Each of these basic forms can be discussed and examined in different contexts. In our course, we will focus primarily on the square and, building on this, the grid. The 11th Bauhaus book by Kasimir Malevich will accompany us in terms of content. Malevich, who caused a sensation over 110 years ago with his "Black Square", was not a direct Bauhaus artist, but his works are in an interesting tension with the works developed at the Bauhaus at the time.
"It was not an "empty square" that I had exhibited, but the feeling of non-objectivity", and further: "The square seemed incomprehensible and dangerous to critics and society ..." (S.66). The painter and photographer El Lissitzky supplemented this statement by saying: "The plate of the square has closed the narrow channel of painterly culture, its reverse side serves as a powerful foundation for the spatial growth of the real world".
We will therefore also turn to the three-dimensional aspects of spatial and orthogonal design. In this context, we will look at the architect Ernst Neufert, who taught in Weimar and whose building design theory is still an important tool for design planning in architecture today.
For beginners and experienced ones. The course fits those who want to learn or refresh fundamental design skills. Interested persons from different areas are also welcomed to participate, as those who are interested in the Bauhaus teaching methods.
There are no prerequisites for participation.
The course language is English.
