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PP/14/1/6 - Gropius, The Bauhaus and The Future

Reference code
PP/14/1/6
Level of description
Item
Title
Gropius, The Bauhaus and The Future
Date/s
1971
Quantity & Format
3 sub-items Lectures
Personal name
Morris, William 1834-1896
Subject
Architecture -- 20th century -- Germany
Creator
Pritchard, John Craven,
Scope and content
Typed notes [2 drafts and 1 final copy] for a lecture, given by [Jack Pritchard] in Dublin 20/4/71. [Jack Pritchard] discusses the influence of the Industrial revolution on art and design and reactions against the machine "exemplified by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement." He discusses the "positive attitude to technology taken by the Arts and Crafts movement in Europe and U.S.A. Jack Pritchard goes on to discuss Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus, its aims and ideas and Gropius' activities in England. Jack Pritchard discusses modern architecture and calls for closer collaboration between art and technology in Britain. All copies heavily annotated. Final copy 33pp., draft copies, 44pp. and 45pp.
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