Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper

Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper

Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper

Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper

Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper

Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper

Leigh Wells, 2011, collage and gouache on paper

On until August 12, the Barbican’s brutalist architectural style is an ideal backdrop to the work of the bauhaus school and it’s characteristic emphasis on functionalism.

Combining craft and fine art to create a gesamtkunstwerk (a total work of art), the bauhaus school’s (1919 – 1933) output traversed numerous artistic disciplines including typography, printmaking, painting, weaving, woodworking, furniture design and architecture.

Bauhaus ausstellung poster, 1923

Oskar Schlemmer, triadic Ballet costumes in theatrical magazine Metropol-Again, Metropol Theater Berlin, 1926

Josef Albers set of stacking tables (c1927)

Walter Gropius Törten housing estate, Dessau Row houses, isometric 1926–28

Tapestry design by Gunta Stolzl, produced by the Bauhaus in 1926.

Josef Hartwig’s 1922 chess set

Erich Consemuller. Woman in B3 club chair by Marcel Breuer wearing a mask by Oskar Schlemmer and a dress in fabric designed by Lis Beyer, 1926.

Herbert Bayer.. Wall-painting design for the stairwell of the Weimar Bauhaus building on the occasion of the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition, 1923. Gouache, pencil, and cut paper on paper

Marianne Brandt, Teapot, 1924

Anni Albers, Black-White-Red, 1964. Reproduction of a 1927 original. Cotton and silk.

Skyscrapers on Transparent Yellow, ca. 1929. Josef Albers

Book cover design by Antonín Smazík for Monogamie. Od Masaryka k Russelovi, od Russela socialismu (Monogamy From Masaryk to Russell, from Russell to Socialism), 1932

Book cover design by Josef Hesoun for Rudy obchod hrozí (The Red Trade Menace) by Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, 1932

Book cover design by Stanislav Odvarko for Almanach 1 pro poesil a život 1920-1930 (Almanac 1 of Poetry and Life 1920-1930) edited by Stanislav Odvarko, 1930

Book cover design by Ladislav Sutnar for Obytny dům dneška (Residential Building of Today) by Jan Emil Koula, 1931

Cover design and typography by Ladislav Sutnar drawing on title page by Zdenĕk Kratochvíl for Obráceni kapitána Brassbounda (Obráceni kapitána Brassbounda), 1932

It was incredible !, 1978, Guy de Coinet

The race was over, 1978, Guy de Coinet

She is in wonderful shape !, 1977, Guy de Coinet

Because the cloud is dark which lit up the night, 1977, Guy de Coinet

Throne of the Kikuyu God, 1978, Guy de Coinet

I feel like vomiting, c.1979, Guy de Coinet

I have been reading the philosophical poems of Miss Ackermann, 1979, Guy de Coinet

black and white, shiro to kuro

shapeset alphabet, tim fishlock

calligraphy, bill grant

fire in the hole, oliver munday

via ed merritt

frequency of letters in the english language, jack richardson

lego alphabet, N-E-I

limited edition print for transport for london, tim fishlock

pprwrk studio

via luella says…

Vennesla Library and Culture House. Vennesla, Norway. Helen & Hard

Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, Denmark. Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen

Taipei Public Library, Taipei, Taiwan. Bio-Architecture Formosana

The-Peckham-Library-designed-by-William-Alsop-and-Jan-Störmer-South-London

Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Washington, USA. Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus

Kanazawa Umimirai Library, Kanazawa City, Japan. Kazumi Kudo and Hiroshi Horiba

Whistler Public Library, Whistler, BC, Canada. Hughes Condon Marley Architects