With the Bauhaus in Dessau, Walter Gropius created a building in 1925/26 that represented a "demonstration of architectural Modernism". (Wolfgang Pehnt). During the few years of its original use as a school with studios, until it was closed down by the Nazis in 1932, it had also become a center of crystalization for the creative forces of its times. Today, the Dessau Bauhaus Foundation again makes the famous building, which has been undergoing extensive restoration since 1997, a center for cultural activities: numerous projects and events at the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Bauhaus' foundation in Weimar (1999) and the EXPO 2000 will provide the building with even more public attention. The book documents all phases of the Bauhaus Building's history, use and constructive changes. The authors look at its meaning for contemporary architecture, culture and politics, and describe its history during the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the GDR and up to the present. The themes range from the first architectural design to the future of the Bauhaus as a monument. With contributions by members of the Dessau Bauhaus as well as by independent specialists, and with picture documentation that also goes back to unpublished materials from the Bauhaus Foundation archives, the multifaceted book represents the new standard volume on the Bauhaus Building.
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The first issue of the magazine bauhaus, the organ of the new Hochschule fur Gestaltung Bauhaus Dessau, which had moved to Dessau in March 1925, appeared on 4 December 1926, on the same day that the Bauhaus staff who had come from Weimar "ceremoniously" opened their new premises, the new Bauhaus building. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Walter Gropius, Dessau Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer, Marcel Breuer, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Ise Gropius, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Technische Lehranstalten, Neues Bauen, Oskar Schlemmer, Lucia Moholy, Fritz Hesse, Hinnerk Scheper, Sigfried Giedion, World Heritage List, New York, Hubert Hoffmann, Marianne Brandt, Paul Klee, Joost Schmidt, Weimar Republic, Herbert Bayer, Wassily Kandinsky, Adolf Behne, Ilya Ehrenburg New!
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The first issue of the magazine bauhaus, the organ of the new Hochschule fur Gestaltung Bauhaus Dessau, which had moved to Dessau in March 1925, appeared on 4 December 1926, on the same day that the Bauhaus staff who had come from Weimar "ceremoniously" opened their new premises, the new Bauhaus building. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early tubular steel furniture, workshop wing, bauhausbauten dessau, bauhaus building, club armchair, former art school, theatre chair, das bauhaus, metalwork shop, monument preservation, orientation plan, celebration area, backrest chair, studio building, workshop building, socket connections, armrest chair Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Walter Gropius, Dessau Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer, Marcel Breuer, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Ise Gropius, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Technische Lehranstalten, Neues Bauen, Oskar Schlemmer, Lucia Moholy, Fritz Hesse, Hinnerk Scheper, Sigfried Giedion, World Heritage List, New York, Hubert Hoffmann, Marianne Brandt, Paul Klee, Joost Schmidt, Weimar Republic, Herbert Bayer, Wassily Kandinsky, Adolf Behne, Ilya Ehrenburg New!
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- Walter Gropius (Dover Books on Architecture) by Siegfried Giedion on 6 pages
- The International Style by Henry Russell Hitchcock on 5 pages
- Walter Gropius by Winfried Nerdinger on page 17, and page 105
- The Modern Functional Building (1926) (Texts and Documents Series) by Adolf Behne on page 96, and page 104
- Marcel Breuer by Alexander Von Vegesack on page 12, and page 13
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