Las mujeres de la Bauhaus
Subtitle: de lo bidimensional al espacio total
By: Josenia Hervás y Heras
Series: Textos de Arquitectura y diseño; Textos de arquitectura y diseño
Publisher: Diseño
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Buenos Aires
Language: spa
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9789873607868
Subjects: History; Women artists; Architecture; Bauhaus
Description: With the arrival of the Weimar Republic, the legal position of the women was reinforced: they could vote, they could study without limitation and they were also the majority. Due to the loss by the preceding war of many men, there was a surplus of about two million women of marriageable age. This female surplus forced them to assume the fact of filling their lives with content as it was more than likely that they could never marry. Their tenacity together with the training they practiced in the schools they entered to form, showed that they had sufficient capacity to develop any intellectual activity, however complex it may be. These struggling women, as Ida A.R. Wylie would call them, never "ordinary women", managed to culminate in the Bauhaus highly qualified studies. They became industrial engineers and architects. The lesser known side of the most famous school is shown in the book: the work of the architects that emerged from the Bauhaus. Considered a progressive academic institution, as it declared equality amongst students of all genders. "Apparently this was an institution open to all, proclaiming an egalitarian utopia, although it concealed a dubious secret: 'a glass ceiling', a tenacious filter, almost insuperable, in the access [of women] to the study of architecture" (HKB Translation) --Page 11
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prólogo. Mujeres, teclas y ninfas despiertan / Carmen Espegel Alonso; title: 1. La Bauhaus dentro de su contexto histórico; title: 2. Weimar; title: 3. Dessau; title: 4. Berlín; title: 5. De lo bidimensional al espacio total : tres mujeres arquitectas.