New gazes at the industrial design of the Bauhaus from descriptive geometry

Abstract

The Bauhaus began its journey in 1919 by the hand of its founder and first director Walter Gropius and ended in 1933 with the rise to power of the Nazis. Although it only functioned for fourteen years, the same as the Weimar Republic, its influence and enormous interest that it arouses in fields as diverse as pedagogy, industrial design, art and architecture mean that it continues to be the object of study in the Schools of Architecture and Engineering. From the subject Architectural Graphic Expression 1, whose main objective is the study of geometric shapes in the different representation systems through the graphic procedures of Descriptive Geometry, we selected four industrial objects, as learning models, designed by Bauhaus students, women and men belonging to two different workshops, metal and joinery. In this article we want to demonstrate the undoubted utility that Descriptive Geometry applied with direct procedures continues to have today, through the use of pencil on paper. Also from a gender perspective, taking as models industrial designs from a hundred years ago that came out of the heads and hands of exceptional women, such as Alma Siedhoff-Buscher and Marianne Brandt. Cross-curricular approach, motivation, spatial vision and equality are four of the objectives achieved with this teaching-researcher experience carried out at the School of Architecture of the University of Granada.