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Volume 30, Number 4, pages 339-358 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2019_4_339
THE COMING OF HEAVEN ON EARTH AND THE BAUHAUS
Katalin Máthé
Address: Institute of Applied Arts, Károly Simonyi Faculty of Engineering, Wood Sciences and Applied Arts, University of Sopron, 32 Deák tér, Sopron, 9400, Hungary.
E-mail: mathe.katalin@uni-sopron.hu
Abstract: The preoccupation of the sciences, arts and religion is to place humans into a wider context and to assign meaning and significance to their existence. Since the Renaissance, in the Western culture, the articulation of the world picture had been increasingly dominated by the sciences, particularly by physics. As the focus of intellectual activity shifted from concerns pertaining to the soul to the physical concreteness of the body, the modern West became a profoundly materialist culture with tremendous material achievement. However, when examining the emergence of scientific theories within a larger historical-cultural framework, it becomes apparent that the driving force in the evolution of our modern world picture is an a priori belief that the cosmos is structured by a set of transcendent mathematical relations. In presenting this process, this paper seeks to demonstrate that modern architecture, and its major school, the Bauhaus, has aimed to share the scientists’ apostolic mission in providing salvation for humanity in a physical-geometrical reality they have been jointly created.
Keywords: art history, theory of art, symbolism, architecture, Vitruvius, scientific revolutions, avant-garde, Bauhaus
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