Edition Bauhaus 48 Cooperatives, sharing communities, co-housing -- the collective is in high demand. At the end of the 1920s the Bauhaus took a keen interest in addressing questions surrounding the relationship between society and design, between individual and collaborative creation and production. The second Bauhaus director Hannes Meyer played a key role here radically orienting the school's teaching and workshops and its planning and architecture around the idea and needs of the collective. Meyer's concept of a collaborative design process was particularly revolutionary. This so-called...
Edition Bauhaus 48 Cooperatives, sharing communities, co-housing -- the collective is in high demand. At the end of the 1920s the Bauhaus took a keen ...
When Dessau was bombed in early 1945, the Bauhaus Masters' Houses, the epitome of the 20th-century artists' colony, were reduced to rubble as well.
After the main Masters' Houses were restored to their original state in the 1990s, Walter Gropius's Director's House and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Master's House were still in ruins, and a debate began over their reconstruction. What was the relevance of these structures at the turn of a new century? In 2010, after consultation with the British architect David Chipperfield, the decision was made to reinterpret the House...
When Dessau was bombed in early 1945, the Bauhaus Masters' Houses, the epitome of the 20th-century artists' colony, were reduced to rubble ...
