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News on Ludwig Hilberseimer! Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885-1967) is
regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen
movement in pre-War Germany, and of modern, functional urbanism.
This set of accomplishments still dominates the public image of the
architect, urban planner, teacher and art critic to this day. His
development beyond that period has long been neglected. The essays
in this collection seek to fill this gap, offering an exciting and
wide-ranging new perspective on the work of a central protagonist
of modernism. Until now, most critical studies of Hilberseimer's
work came from his place of exile in Chicago and his work in
Germany/Europe and the USA tended to be viewed separately; this
volume is the first to attempt to end this separation and encourage
a complete overview of is work. Previously unknown archival
discoveries With contributions by Alexander Eisenschmidt, Magdalena
Droste, Christine Mengin, Philipp Oswalt, Robin Schuldenfrei,
Charles Waldheim and others
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Bauhaus Dessau Architecture (Hardcover)
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation; Text written by Florian Strob; Photographs by Thomas Meyer/Ostkreuz
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"Art and technology: a new unity" - It was with this slogan that
the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925. The seven years in Dessau were
most productive for the designers and architects at the Bauhaus.
This illustrated volume presents the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau in
words and pictures and offers new perspectives on these icons of
modern architecture. Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe, Richard Paulick, Georg Muche, Carl Fieger and Karl
Friedrich Engemann: the architects at the Bauhaus in Dessau
realized their designs in the industrial city between the Elbe and
the Mulde rivers during the years between 1925 and 1932 and thereby
created a unique ensemble of modern architecture which attracts
visitors from all over the world to Dessau to this day. Since 1996
some of the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau have been regarded as key
works of European Modernism and are included in the list of UNESCO
World Cultural Heritage Sites. They express the revolutionary aim
of the historical Bauhaus to bring about fundamental change in
society through design and architecture.
Internal criticism of the Bauhaus For a long time, the topic of
far-left currents within Bauhaus was one of controversy. Thanks to
recent research on the Communist Student Fraction (Kostufra), the
leftist students are finally coming into focus. Their magazine:
bauhaus. sprachrohr der studierenden. organ der kostufra was a
venue for unsparing critique of events, curricula, and teachers.
The journal was published between 1930 and 1932 in Dessau and
Berlin in 15 hectographed issues in a loose-leaf collection and is
critically discussed here for the first time by researchers from
art and cultural studies, architecture, and editorial studies. It
clearly demonstrates that the experimental value of Bauhaus cannot
be separated from its political radicalism. First detailed
reappraisal of communism in Bauhaus With contributions by Peter
Bernhard, Marcel Bois, Magdalena Droste, Elizabeth Otto, Patrick
Roessler, and others
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