First Impressions: Moholy- Nagy and the Prototype in the Curriculum

In 1937, the Association of Arts and Industries invited László Moholy–Nagy to develop anddirect a school of design and architecture in Chicago based upon the Bauhaus model of anengaging curriculum that prepares students to participate in the evolving needs of societyand industry. While traveling on the ship from London to New York, Moholy–Nagy envisioneda new Bauhaus rooted in the successes of the original. Although leading industrialistslent their names to the prestige of the school, literally dubbed the New Bauhaus, it was theunending struggle to maintain funding that drove the transformation of the basic curriculumof the Bauhaus into an integrated learning model of the School of Design supporting the pushto patent and prototype.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6