The Bauhaus celebrates its 100. Birthday. We pay them a visit shows: The world-famous school of architecture and design has more to offer than right angles and white facades. It also has comfortable beds.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Arrival at the world cultural heritage
In the dim light, the Bauhaus looks a lot smaller than I imagined it would be. All of the photographers scan it and your recordings in architecture leaders were allowed to publish, wanted to help him through a particularly sophisticated perspectives to more size. Still, a historic moment, to see it with my own eyes.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Light and air
Due to the many glass, which comes in the Bauhaus workshop building, it looks airy and light. Gropius wanted to remove all Heaviness from the architecture. It should look as if the building would float. There is not a single support, which carries the glass facade. The window bands extend horizontally. Constantly new views of the axes, so that the architecture acts as a sculpture.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Commander on the bridge
The Director’s room of Walter Gropius is located on the so-called bridge, a connecting bar between the workshop building and the former vocational school. The basement of the administrations of the two parts of the building. The architecture alone, designed by Walter Gropius, and under his own name, not as a design of the Bauhaus.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Heating instead of art
The heater hangs under the ceiling. Most of the Bauhaus architects of the first hour like basically no pictures on the walls, the heating system should be a piece of jewelry, a set of images. Therefore, a heating depends here on the place where you least expect them.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Live in the master’s house
The most houses were built in 1926/1927 the same time as the Bauhaus in Dessau. They can be reached in five minutes and lie in a green alley. These designs were by Walter Gropius. The single house for the Bauhaus Director (pictured), which has the largest garden and at the head of the Avenue, was in 2. World war II destroyed and as a reconstruction rebuilt.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Live in the master’s house
Georg Muche, a painter and graphic artist shared with the colleagues Oskar Schlemmer double house. Street, in the direction of the North, are wall to wall studios with huge Windows. There are a total of three semi-detached houses for the Bauhaus teachers. A common feature is that you can go from almost every room directly to the outside. The houses are in a Park.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Space-Saving Housing
In the bedroom, from the house Muche, Georg Muche and his family lived, there are these colorful wardrobes. Since the rooms were small, needed the residents of storage space. The cabinets offer a surprising amount of space, and integrate flush into the wall. The colors are original from the time. Installation of a special predilection by Walter Gropius were cabinets.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Living and Working under one roof
Upstairs in the Atelier building to the rooms with a sink of Anni and Josef Albers, Gertrud and Alfred Arndt, or architect Franz Ehrlich. The so-called preller house, the first Dorm was. As on a modern University Campus, it was connected directly with the workshops of the Bauhaus. In the basement the women who lived in the top three in the men’s Shot.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Hotel Bauhaus
In the so-called “preller house,” there is still the Flair of the 20s. Many Bauhaus students designed their own furniture. Five of the rooms have been restored to the original faithfully. About the rooms by Marianne Brandt, the workshop first and only woman in the metal. Many of the rooms in the Studio building can be rented by guests like this. Who wants to feel the Bauhaus spirit, is right here.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Labour office in a new light
Walter Gropius left Dessau in many fragrance brands. The employment office, which was completed according to his plans in 1929, is nothing like the cliché of the Bauhaus as a white, square cube. The building is a half-round. It follows the Maxim: Form follows function. The building, with its five entrances, which also houses today the employment office.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Arrival at the world cultural heritage
In the dim light, the Bauhaus looks a lot smaller than I imagined it would be. All of the photographers scan it and your recordings in architecture leaders were allowed to publish, wanted to help him through a particularly sophisticated perspectives to more size. Still, a historic moment, to see it with my own eyes.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Light and air
Due to the many glass, which comes in the Bauhaus workshop building, it looks airy and light. Gropius wanted to remove all Heaviness from the architecture. It should look as if the building would float. There is not a single support, which carries the glass facade. The window bands extend horizontally. Constantly new views of the axes, so that the architecture acts as a sculpture.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Commander on the bridge
The Director’s room of Walter Gropius is located on the so-called bridge, a connecting bar between the workshop building and the former vocational school. The basement of the administrations of the two parts of the building. The architecture alone, designed by Walter Gropius, and under his own name, not as a design of the Bauhaus.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Heating instead of art
The heater hangs under the ceiling. Most of the Bauhaus architects of the first hour like basically no pictures on the walls, the heating system should be a piece of jewelry, a set of images. Therefore, a heating depends here on the place where you least expect them.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Live in the master’s house
The most houses were built in 1926/1927 the same time as the Bauhaus in Dessau. They can be reached in five minutes and lie in a green alley. These designs were by Walter Gropius. The single house for the Bauhaus Director (pictured), which has the largest garden and at the head of the Avenue, was in 2. World war II destroyed and as a reconstruction rebuilt.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Live in the master’s house
Georg Muche, a painter and graphic artist shared with the colleagues Oskar Schlemmer double house. Street, in the direction of the North, are wall to wall studios with huge Windows. There are a total of three semi-detached houses for the Bauhaus teachers. A common feature is that you can go from almost every room directly to the outside. The houses are in a Park.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Space-Saving Housing
In the bedroom, from the house Muche, Georg Muche and his family lived, there are these colorful wardrobes. Since the rooms were small, needed the residents of storage space. The cabinets offer a surprising amount of space, and integrate flush into the wall. The colors are original from the time. Installation of a special predilection by Walter Gropius were cabinets.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Living and Working under one roof
Upstairs in the Atelier building to the rooms with a sink of Anni and Josef Albers, Gertrud and Alfred Arndt, or architect Franz Ehrlich. The so-called preller house, the first Dorm was. As on a modern University Campus, it was connected directly with the workshops of the Bauhaus. In the basement the women who lived in the top three in the men’s Shot.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Hotel Bauhaus
In the so-called “preller house,” there is still the Flair of the 20s. Many Bauhaus students designed their own furniture. Five of the rooms have been restored to the original faithfully. About the rooms by Marianne Brandt, the workshop first and only woman in the metal. Many of the rooms in the Studio building can be rented by guests like this. Who wants to feel the Bauhaus spirit, is right here.
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Bauhaus Dessau: In search of the Yesterday Today
Labour office in a new light
Walter Gropius left Dessau in many fragrance brands. The employment office, which was completed according to his plans in 1929, is nothing like the cliché of the Bauhaus as a white, square cube. The building is a half-round. It follows the Maxim: Form follows function. The building, with its five entrances, which also houses today the employment office.
One night I may sleep in the Bauhaus. Not in the giant hardware store of the same Name, which is found in every major industrial area in Germany, but in the Bauhaus. The address “Gropius Allee 38” sounds like a awe-inspiring Historical significance. The street is named after Walter Gropius, the chief thinkers of the famous school, founded in Weimar in 1919, and, for political reasons, moved to Dessau in 1925. Invited me to be sustained shortly before the celebrations on the occasion of the 100 anniversary of the Foundation of the Bauhaus, as well as the state of Saxony -.
Bauhaus Modern to Dessau
On the historic staircase goes up to the fourth floor
This staircase is Walter Gropius, or the “White God”, as, later, the Americans after his Emigration in the 1930s, probably a hundred times up and down. It is an uplifting feeling, to walk in his paths, and to throw a glance in his office in the “bridge”. The bridge connects two important parts of the Bauhaus building, the workshop building and the former commercial vocational school. The had to bring Gropius also on the Site. Behind the Studio building and the master houses.
Place to sleep with a story
The Studio house, in my bedroom is a place for the night and is now rented to guests from all over the world, opened in 1926. It is a new Era ushered in. Here the idea of the Campus was built, as a place that should unite living and Working under one roof. A Sensation. On the balconies, just large enough to have a chair on it, let countless students and young master scan. These photos embodied for me the promise of Modernity: Young, well-looking men and women, the celebrate in a relaxed mood. The Modern must have been a happy time, full of lightness of Being and the “New people” throwing off the Ballast of the civil tower.
Mood of optimism on a small balcony
The dawning of a new era, these photographs transport from the so-called “preller house” in any case, on most excellent. Even today the epithet, of the landscape painter Friedrich Preller the Older, from the 19th century is remembered. A century back, to the hospitality of the artist. Preller was an art student at the time, in Weimar, living there.
Renovation for the anniversary
My room is on the fourth floor. You mean still, to feel the energy of the pioneers of the past, one of the newly renovated stairs. On each floor there is a large mullioned window that gives views of the surroundings, free and bright light. Currently it looks dark in the stairs. The Windows are covered by the Plan, in which the Wind is choppy. The renovation work on the façade in the context of the 100-year anniversary are not yet complete. It smells of damp color, in my Bedroom, which is reminiscent of a modern Loft: simple, light, Spartan furnishings.
My room at the preller house: simple and functional
No one would expect to find in the Bauhaus’s plush Sofas. Instead: linoleum floor, a Desk made of tubular steel, cantilever chair, ball lamp, shelves, double bed. And a sink. That happened in 1926. For the time the a total of 28 rooms, of which 16 have a private balcony, the pure luxury. A Central hallway connected the working and sleeping rooms, each floor had its own kitchen, a shared toilet and a shower. Even a gymnastics room was located in the basement. To accommodated the times of the GDR the Bauhaus was a scientifically-cultural the centre and four rooms, one per floor was given up to take a shower. Since then, guests stay in the student booths of the Bauhaus, which will now be renovated for the anniversary, once again, true to the original.
Women moved into the basement
It was white, contrary to the idea of the white Modern – not so often used. The floor the student was on the ground floor, the were largely engaged in the weaving, blue. The floors above in red or yellow.
On the 20 square-meter rooms must have felt, but above all, they were affordable: 20 Reichsmark per month, including cleaning and Gas. Probably complained to no residents then, if in the Winter the cold moved by the simple window glazing, and in summer, the sun heated up the rooms properly.
Walter Gropius designed the Bauhaus in Dessau
Functional and practical accommodation
The preller house there is direct access to the canteen, and from there it goes to the workshop building. An icon of the new building, with a flat roof, a glass curtain wall and the famous logo on the Front. Today it houses the administration of the Bauhaus Foundation, a Museum, Bauhaus-Shop and Bauhaus-Club – a mix of dining hall and café spaces – a research library and a small stage. In the North wing of the building, the institution uses ongoing six spaces for Design and architecture seminars.
No Detail is left to chance
The Bauhaus is not a product of chance, it is built on action. Depending on the time of day the sun makes no case that the letters of the lettering BAUHAUS double, depending on the shadow on the facade. The exterior and the interior, every Detail is carefully planned. Even the view from the air was taken into account in the plane to the city of Dessau. When you stroll Past the curtain facades, horizontal bands of Windows, lettering and bridge, it is, as you would go to a sculpture. Every page looks different.
A night in the Bauhaus is not a Spa holiday, a good night’s sleep, it is there nevertheless. A bit simplistic, you should like it. And a desire to bring, to feel the spirit, the spirit of Modernism, was full of lightness and optimism about the Future.
The Prellerbau was renovated for the jubilee fresh