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DISSERTATION
This dissertation focuses on Oskar Schlemmer's contributions to Bauhaus pedagogy and stage productions that stressed the human body in space and architecture. It reveals Schlemmer's original design and development of the Vordruck (form), a human canon for his Bauhaus course Der Mensch. The Vordruck (form), acts as the lens within the dissertation, to explore the body and architecture in the context of design and architecture at the Bauhaus, with a focus on issues of type, ideal forms, the fluidity of gender and the female origins of the male Vordruck, and early Bauhaus Mazdaznan training. Schlemmer's consideration of Raum as the forefront of his teaching, stage productions, and art works reveal and provoke architectural places as playful, ambiguous, vacant, that expose underlying questions about events between the wars and the acceptance of difference.