PP/14/1/7 - Gropius, The Bauhaus And The Future

Reference code

PP/14/1/7

Level of description

Item

Title

Gropius, The Bauhaus And The Future

Date/s

1968

Quantity & Format

3 sub items Lectures

Personal name

Morris, William 1834-1896

Subject

Royal Society of Arts
Education -- Philosophy
Arts and crafts movement

Creator

Pritchard, John Craven,

Scope and content

Three copies of a lecture given by Jack Pritchard to the Royal Society of Arts 13/11/68. Includes one offprint from the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts p. 75-94, one annotated draft 74pp. and one uncorrected proof for publication in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 5pp. 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 calls for a "more dynamic attitude to design training" and a closer collaboration between art and technology.

PP - Pritchard Papers
- PP/14 - Papers given to learned bodies [by Jack Pritchard]
  - PP/14/1 - Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus
    - PP/14/1/7 - Gropius, The Bauhaus And The Future

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