Form Four Ways

摘要

It's been nearly 50 years since Bauhaus instructor and artist Johannes Itten died in 1967, but his legacy remains central to architectural education. Itten's time at the seminal German design school was short-lived (a mere four years between 1919 and 1922), but his concept for a preliminary "Basic Course" for incoming students continues in one fashion or another at many American architecture schools. Central to this preliminary course, or Vorkurs, was the idea that new students should be self-directed, rather than put through a series of rote exercises.