We may no longer live as we did 50 years ago, but we seem to enjoy furnishing our homes in that style. Anyone who strolled through Milan during Design Week this year or sought inspiration at 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen could hardly have missed one theme:...
..."Bauhaus Ecologies" at the Bauhaus Museum, Dessau, Germany The Bauhauses are often held as impulse-giving for contemporary architecture and design, and an argument can certainly be made that in many regards they were... With Bauhaus Ecologies the Bauhaus Museum, Dessau, seek to explore the relationships between both the Bauhauses as institutions and individual Bauhäusler and the non-human environment, from a variety of varied perspectives including, and amongst others, natural philosophy, biocentrism or crystallography, across a wide range of creative genres, including the more avant-garde artistic practices of the 1920s such as photography and film in their various expressions, but also the long established practice of architecture in context of, for example, considerations on climate-responsive construction methods...
...1 In 1922 Christian Dell retuned to Weimar as Werkmeister in the metal workshop at Bauhaus, where along with the Formmeister László Moholy-Nagy and students such as, for example, Marianne Brandt, Hin Bredendieck, Wilhelm Wagenfeld or Carl Jacob Jucker, he played a key role in developing the Bauhaus understanding of and approach to product and lighting design... When in 1925 Bauhaus was forced to relocate to Dessau Christian Dell chose instead a return to the River Main and the post of head of the metal workshop at the Kunsthochschule Frankfurt; an institution which at that time was being reorganised along much more industrial lines, and which, very much like Bauhaus Dessau, was looking to marry craft and industry...
...Bauhaus Dessau was officially opened on December 4th 1926, and by way of celebrating the institution's 90th anniversary on December 4th 2016 the foundation stone will be laid for the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau; an act which comes just one month after the foundation stone was laid for the new Bauhaus Museum Weimar... Both museums being built in preparation for the coming centenary of Bauhaus's 1919 inauguration...
