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Bauhaus movement

Movement
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A modernist artistic and literary movement associated with the Bauhaus school in Germany.

Detailed Definition
Bauhaus movement was an early 20th-century German art and design school whose interdisciplinary ethos influenced avant-garde poetry through its emphasis on simplicity, functionality, and synthesis of art with technology; poets inspired by Bauhaus often experimented with typography, spatial arrangement, and concrete forms.
Example
Example in poetry:
Bauhaus-influenced poetry favors clarity, geometry, experiment, and the integration of word with visual design; A concrete poem arranging “stairs” in descending type recalls Bauhaus interest in functional typography; Kurt Schwitters’s avant-garde sound and collage practices provide a useful neighboring example, though he was not simply a Bauhaus poet; A poem using red, black, and primary geometric blocks as verbal structure can explore how layout makes meaning
Additional Notes
Bauhaus movement was an influential German art and design school (1919-1933); its principles of form following function and geometric abstraction influenced poetic movements like Concrete Poetry.
Also Known As
modernist movement Bauhaus school design movement Bauhaus tradition Bauhaus (Germany) Bauhaus
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