Bauhaus vs International Style
バウハウス / インターナショナル・スタイル
Bauhaus comes from Functionalism and International Style from Modern Architecture. Both are read here as style. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Bauhaus
Makes function and play coexist through the circle, triangle and square.
International Style
Strips ornament and aims at a universal architectural language crossing borders: the box, the free plan, steel, concrete and glass.
| Bauhaus | International Style | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1919–1933 | 1920s–1960s |
| Family | Functionalism | Modern Architecture |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Elementary shapes / Primary colors / Functional beauty / Visible structure | Rectangular volumes / Glass planes / No ornament / The free plan |
| Best used for | Giving an idea a clear, legible form · Bringing intelligence and warmth to education and culture | Corporate headquarters and civic buildings that must earn trust through proportion, not ornament. · Long life offices and galleries whose partitions move as programs change. |
| Type | Geometric sans-serif | Align sans serif signs to the column grid, flush with the wall. |
| Composition | Treat shapes and letters as the same building blocks | Carry floors on columns so plan and facade both stay free. |
| Material | Red, blue and yellow held together by black and off-white | Steel and concrete frame, white rendered planes, large sheets of glass. |
| Caution | Scattered shapes read as childish. Give every element a job. | A white box alone misses the structure, free plan, industrial materials and social program, and ornament stripped without tuned proportion and detail reads as cheapness, leaving openings with no reason for their position. |