Das prinzip coop. Hannes Meyer und die Idee einer kollektiven Gestaltung. Spector Books.

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Edition Bauhaus 48

Text: Claudia Perren, Werner Möller, Astrid Volpert

Genossenschaften, Sharing Community, Co-Housing – das Kollektiv hat Konjunktur. Fragen zum Verhältnis von Gesellschaft und Gestaltung, von individueller und gemeinschaftlicher Kreation und Produktion wurden bereits Ende der 1920er Jahre intensiv am Bauhaus verhandelt: Besonders der zweite Bauhausdirektor Hannes Meyer richtete Lehre und Werkstätten, Planung und Architektur radikal am Kollektiv und seinen Bedürfnissen aus. Revolutionär war besonders Meyers Idee eines gemeinschaftlichen Gestaltungsprozesses. Diesem sogenannten Coop-Prinzip widmet sich nun erstmals eine Ausstellung im Bauhaus Dessau vom 21. Mai bis 4. Oktober 2015.

Co-published mit der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau

mit 97 schwarz/weiß-Abbildungen, fadengeheftete Broschur

Gestaltung: Prill Vieceli Cremers, Zürich
Herausgeber: Werner Möller in Zusammenarbeit mit/in collaboration with Raquel Franklin

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Human – Space – Machine. Stage experiments at the Bauhaus. Müller & Wesse (Stephan Müller) and Luise Bartels Torsten Blume, Christian Hiller. Spector Books

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Human – Space – Machine. Stage experiments at the Bauhaus

In 1921, Walter Gropius founded a theater workshop at the Bauhaus. It conducted new research and experiments on the relationship between humans and technology. The central protagonists Lothar Schreyer, Oskar Schlemmer, and László Moholoy-Nagy investigated the issues of mechanization, machine industrialization, and rationalization. They sought a new, meaningful relationship with the dynamized, increasingly technically animated environment. In their stage laboratory, they developed abstract motion studies, designed atmosphere machines, and built theater apparatus. They also organized the famous Bauhaus celebrations, where they staged themselves as a collective of “new humans”. For the first time, an exhibition and a catalog with sketches, drawings, photographs as well as films, figurines, costumes, models, and apparatus are now devoted to the experiments and concepts of the legendary Bauhaus stage.

Author: Müller & Wesse (Stephan Müller) and Luise Bartels Torsten Blume, Christian Hiller
Publisher: Spector Books
Language: English
Pages: 252
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9783944669229
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Bauhaus Magazine #4

Posted in magazines, writing on December 14th, 2012
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Bauhaus Magazine #3
Die Bauhausfotografie steht im Mittelpunkt der vierten Ausgabe der Zeitschrift bauhaus, die von der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau herausgegeben wird. Parallel zur Ausstellung „Das Bauhaus im Bild. Die Fotosammlung Thomas Walther“, die vom 5. Dezember 2012 bis zum 24. Februar 2013 in Dessau zu sehen ist, widmet sich das Heft der lichtkünstlerischen Hinterlassenschaft des Bauhauses. Da sind die bildgebende Fotografie eines László Moholy-Nagy, für den die Arbeit mit der Kamera die Verbildlichung einer Idee war und eben nicht die Abbildung einer Wirklichkeit. Seinem Antipoden Walter Peterhans ging es hingegen um nichts anderes als die präzise Vermessung der Wirklichkeit. T- Lux Feininger wiederum interessierte sich für den sozialen Augenblick, Umbo für das Porträt und die Reportagefotografie. Das von Moholy ausgerufene Neue Sehen kannte viele Facetten, ungewöhnliche Blickwinkel und Perspektiven.

The fourth issue of the new Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s new journal is dedicated to photography at the Bauhaus and exclusively features twenty-six works from Thomas Walther’s collection that one day will expand the collection in Dessau. An interview with the collector Thomas Walther and an accompanying essay by Rolf Sachsse on the history of collecting Bauhaus photography open the issue. Wolfgang Thöner describes the Dessau masters’ home for László Moholy-Nagy and Lyonel Feininger as the nucleus of Bauhaus photography, and Torsten Blume devotes himself to the photo albums of students and teachers at the Bauhaus that have shaped its identity. Gottfried Jäger remembers Moholy-Nagy as the “Leonardo of the twentieth century,” and Franziska Brons writes about the early days of aerial photography. Plus a magazine section: Fifty years of Gropiusstadt, gleanings from documenta from the perspective of the Bauhaus, and Marcel Breuer and eroticism. Forthcoming

Ausgabe 4 Dezember 2012
160 Pages

8€
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Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish. M.D. Mazdaznan – Health & Breath Culture. Open Editions & Stanley Picker Gallery.

Posted in history, illustration, lifestyle, sports, writing on August 1st, 2012
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Mazdaznan – Health & Breath Culture (first six exercises) by Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish. M.D. Open Editions & Stanley Picker Gallery (Kingston University)

This book explores the intimate relationship between Mazdaznan, Johannes Itten and the Vorkurs (Preliminary or Foundation Course) at the Bauhaus, Weimar. It is a practical guide to performing the exercises that Itten taught at the Bauhaus and a celebration of a moment of mysticism at the heart of Modernism.

Illustrated and appended by Ian Whittlesea
Pages: 67
Size: 19 x 13 cm

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bauhaus magazine, Issue 1

Posted in magazines, Motto Berlin store, writing on March 29th, 2011
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bauhaus – Die Zeitschrift der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s Magazine

After 80 years it’s back: bauhaus – the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s new magazine. Everything from the Bauhaus world, essays, interviews and more.
The first issue of the bauhaus magazine was published in December 1926 to coincide with the opening of the Bauhaus building in Dessau. Every three months (with interruptions), it reported on events in Dessau and important modern trends. Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Ernst Kallai and Hannes Meyer contributed to the magazine as editors. The authors included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Hilberseimer and many others. The last issue was published in 1931.
80 years after the discontinuation of this periodical, we, as the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, are publishing a new magazine under the old name. In doing so, we by no means presume to replicate an interrupted tradition. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is not resuming the unique historical experiment of the “Bauhaus”. Nonetheless, it does work at the same place – the Bauhaus building in Dessau – and its remit is to cultivate the legacy of the historic Bauhaus and, “given the ideas and approaches of the historic Bauhaus, to address issues of design in the present-day environment” (the Foundation’s statute). The biannual magazine aims to report and comment on the activities of the Foundation and its partners. It will thereby not only focus on activities in Dessau, but also on those of an international network exploring issues of design. This issue of the magazine will delve into the history of modernity and its relevance to us today.

Published by Spector Books
Designed by Novamondo
Text in german and english

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