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I think about the Bauhaus every single day

8/10/26, 5:36 pm0 reposts4 likes

I think the great irony of Bauhaus/Modernism is that it succeeded on an aesthetic level for like evil mega corporations and imperialist governments but not on its principles of better, accessible, mass-produced design, architecture, and art. Similar argument for Russian Constructivism imo.

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Like the way that Helvetica became what US tax forms are set in, Futura was heavily utilized for Nazi propaganda, and Constructivism was discarded in favor of Socialist Realism kinda makes that point. It literally worked, but not with any kind of principles or philosophy attached to it.