The Dialogue Between Han Fei And Walter Gropius

Han fei is Chinese spring and autumn and warring states period egalist thinkers. In his books《Han Fei Zi》, many articles in the fable, the fable story contains a lot of design thought. Walter Gropius is 20th century Germany modernist architects, modern educators, founder of the Bauhaus school. Two masters in a different time and space, there are apart about two thousand years before, but the design concept has many similar understanding, such as the design of"function"and the"rational design","decoration and function","he relation between design and market", etc. The design thoughts of product design similar its main reason is based on their similar social background and similar thought background basis. Of course they design thought there was a lot of different. Han Fei utility theory emphasize"interest""force", ignore the value of ethics and degeneration. Walter Gropius didn't like the functional design of Han Fei as bad as the evaluation of product design, and he is the only standard product design without moderation in denial of performance art. Han Fei completely negative decoration, and Walter Gropius isn't so extreme, advocate the adornment with function, oppose trival adornment. Han Fei's design idea of service object is"Han Guo", and Walter Gropius ruling classes for pius design service object is more popular, rather than a few noble. But I'm sure that Han Fei the design is presented. Walter Gropius design is contradictory. Two masters of the design thought had great influence on later generations. And Walter Gropius lattice of design thought influence all over the world. People all over the world to share his design results."International socialism"and"postmodernism"design style arrival laid solid foundation. This paper presented by with walter glover pius design ideas, arouse people to comparative study on ancient Chinese design thought. Don't blindly rejection or negate process design thought in ancient China. Thus we hope in the future design ideas of history in learning more clear and reasonable. Through this article makes design personnel can seriously own artistic accomplishment and culture.