Education and Reuse
Editors: Ana Tostões
Guest editors: Michel Melenhorst
Keywords: Modern Movement,
Modern architecture,
Architectural education,
Reuse,
Bauhaus.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/61.I.BBPX6EPV
The Bauhaus had a pioneering influence on design worldwide which still endures today; through education, experimentation and materialization, a revolution took place in architecture, urbanism and design for mass production. In 1918, during the immediate post-war period, Walter Gropius (1883-1969) achieved a fusion between the Kunstgewerbeschule and the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in Weimar, with the creation of an interdisciplinary school of design and crafts. In April 1919, he was elected director of the school which was by then called the Staatliches Bauhaus. He also published the Bauhaus Manifesto, which remains as a pioneering moment in history, with irreversible consequences at a global scale. The Bauhaus as a school, as a method of experimentation, education, and research, embodies the idea of science applied in service of the society. At the Bauhaus, utopia was combined with pragmatism, agitation and propaganda with public service, poetry with utility, Neue Sachlichkeit with creation and freedom. Its premises continue to be relevant today with the great issues of sustainability and democracy needing to be addressed through art and technology.
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Editorial
100 years back, 100 years forward
Ana Tostões
Introduction
Reuse of Modernist Buildings
Michel Melenhorst
Essays
Memento mori or eternal Modernism? The Bauhaus at MoMA, 1938
Barry Bergdoll Walter Gropius and Operative History: an Architectural Palimpsest
Jasmine Benyamin From “White City” to “Bauhaus City” – Tel Aviv’s urban and architectural resilience
Marina Epstein-Pliouchtch, Talia Abramovich Aldo van Eyck and the Amsterdam playgrounds
Vincent Ligtelijn Bauhaus and Lina Bo Bardi: from the modern factory to the Pompeia leisure center
Renato Anelli Modern Reuse
Robert K. Huber Teaching the Laboratory of the Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture (TSAM) at the École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne
Franz Graf Education for Adaptive reuse – the TU Delft Heritage and Architecture Experience
Nicholas Clarke, Hielkje Zijlstra, Wessel De Jonge
Documentation Issues
How did the Bauhaus get its name?
Dietrich Neumann
Interviews
David Chipperfield
Ana Tostões, Michel Melenhorst Wiel Arets
Ana Tostões, Michel Melenhorst
News
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Book Reviews
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