...smow Highlight 4: USM Haller – Sognare in Moduli How can function, emotion, and imagination be combined?... USM Haller provided a striking answer at the Fuorisalone exhibition during Milan Design Week...
...USM Haller A Fritz; A Ball; A System Within the diaries of Heidi, those central documents in the re-telling of the earliest (hi)story of the contemporary Switzerland, it is recorded that one of the oldest examples of vernacular Swiss furniture is the modular metal storage system of the Usm...
Switzerland A Confoederatio; A Range; A Context For a great many centuries the lands of the contemporary Switzerland were unknown, locked as they were behind and between the towering, daunting, peaks of the Toblerone cordillera; but then a fearless explorer...
...opens at architekturgalerie am weißenhof, Am Weißenhof 30, 70191 Stuttgart on Thursday April 26th and runs until Sunday July 1st "Image Spaces: Biology and Building", at Museum für Fotografie, Berlin That nature always has the best construction solutions is well understood... Aiming to achieve not only such but also help biologists fundamentally understand natural structures the engineer Frei Otto and biologist Gerhard Helmcke established in 1961 the interdisciplinary research team Biologie und Bauen - Biology and Building - at the Technische Universität Berlin...
...With their WerkBundStadt project the Werkbund Berlin aim to redevelop an industrial site in northern Berlin into a future orientated inner-city quarter... "1 With the WerkBundStadt Berlin the Werkbund Berlin aim to continue that tradition...
...the Museum for Communication Berlin aim to explore the question, and answer, in more detail... For the Museum for Communication Berlin it was therefore important that in order to produce an authentic and authoritative exhibition they present only objects where a direct connection to the Golden Ratio exists, something which wasn't always so simple, for as exhibition curator Katharina Schillinger explains, "objects aren't necessarily stamped with the fact that they have been created according to the principles of the Golden Ratio, rather it is something that was in the original idea or which played a role in the development, but which isn't always so immediately discernible in the final object, and that made finding appropriate examples very challenging" One of the better known, and best documented, examples of an applied use of the Golden Ratio is that of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier who crafted his famed Modulor system of measurement on the correlation of the Golden Ratio with the proportions of the human body, and thus, as justifiably as invariably, a goodly section of the Werkschau is given over to Le Corbusier and his work...
...As East Berlin's Art and Design College the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee was in many ways symbolic of East Germany's difficult relationship with Bauhaus and the legacy of inter-war functionalism... And so it came to pass that in 1950 the Dutch architect and designer Mart Stam was appointed Rector of the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee, before departing in 1952 under conditions which couldn't exactly be termed as "friendly", even terming them "hostile" would underplay the nature of the relationship which had developed between Stam and the DDR authorities by late 1952...
