新托福听写训练 第33期（在线收听）

Listen to a conversation about an architecture class

M:Interesting lecture today, didn't you think?

W:Well, I suppose. But I have never heard the Bauhaus and I am not clear on something. Was it some place you'd go to, or was it more of a XX or movement of some sort? You know like the Brookimpressionism.

M:No, it was an actually design school located in Germany, founded by Walter Gropius. His goal was to combine technical skill with and artist talent and by doing this creates a new form of architecture and aplight arts.

W:Okay, so that explained what professro mentioned how certain people had studied with both a craft person and an artist.

M:Right! Before anybody can actually begin their former training, they had to take workshops that were taught by boat or craft person who emphasize technical expertise and an artist.

W:Interesting!

M:And the Bauhaus founders also departed from the notion of arts being of a former of a luxury object. They want to produce functional art to be enjoyed by everybody. Not just the wealthy.

W:Weren't they making some sort of social statement?

M:Perhaps…I don't know. But it did mean that the Bauhaus's creation had their own artistic beauty. And that instead of being individually handicraft, like something you've seen in a … I don't know…Garth Cathedral they were produced by machines in large quantities.

W:Is the Bauhaus still around?

M:I don't think so. But judging on the amount of time on our class schedule that we are going to be devoting to it, it's a fact must about lifted.