In a special edition of the journal Typographische Mitteilungen titled Elementare Typographie it was Jan Tschichold who expressed his views on a new typographic style. The basic shapes circle, square and triangle were omnipresent in the fields of industrial design, architecture, certainly in graphic design, as well as in lettering and type design. Not only is the building’s transparent “curtain wall” iconic, but so too the letters B-A-U-H-A-U-S running down the façade – geometric letters constructed from a simple grid. At the same time the students of the Bauhaus moved into their new school building in Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius.
GEOMETRIC TYPEFACE WINDOWS
Both are long and round building complexes equipped with many little square windows of different sizes – milestones in social housing. The architect Bruno Taut and his colleagues began major housing estate projects in Berlin: Onkel Toms Hütte (named after the famous novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin) in 1926 and the Hufeisensiedlung (literally horseshoe estate) a year earlier. It was designed in semicircles instead and thus supported the ability to swing. The same year Mart Stam designed a cubic chair construction made from tubes (possibly the first without back legs), while Ludwig Mies van der Rohe filed a patent application for his version of this so-called Freischwinger (cantilever chair). In 1926, the Berlin Funkturm – a transmitting tower with an observation platform first opened to the public enabling new perspectives on the metropolis.
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