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Bauhaus 8 is given over to the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's annual theme for 2016: Movement. Its focus is on new departures in society, change and speed, migration and mobility as well as art and dynamism, architecture and performance, flights of fancy and locomotor systems. In bauhaus 8 we encounter Kandinsky on a bicycle, Moholy-Nagy's Vision in Motion, Paul Klee overcoming gravity, Gropius's writing desk in exile, and Karla Grosch's programme of physical education at the Bauhaus as well as numerous other protagonists. The annual publication combines historical views with the...

If we think of "transit areas" as airport lounges, train-station waiting rooms and subways--spaces always in temporary use, and inherently associated with flexibility and mobility--"Transit Areas" suggests that more and more cities now match that description. These case studies cover urban transformations in Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Spain's speculative landscapes may be perceived as a test zone for a model of global urbanization that was introduced with neo-liberalization in the 1990s. The huge vacancy rate and the consumption of the landscape in the absence of users and low levels of demand testify to the dubiousness of a form of architectural production that is based purely on the speculative value of the built objects. Bauhaus Lab has developed critical positions, counter-models, and projects that engage with the implications of this form of urbanization.

In this era of economic globalization, multimedia communication and cross-border migration, cities increasingly consist of parallel worlds. Different urban cultures and practices immediately confront each other. Call centers, informal markets, sprawling communities, new diaspora and transitory lifestyles represent trans-national spaces in urban centers whose cultural, economic and social activities are no longer confined to their localities. How do planning and architecture react when their central point of reference loses its clear nature and thus its identity? Using concrete examples, this...