Main entry:

Bauhaus Zwanzig-21. English.

Title & Author:

Bauhaus twenty-21 : an ongoing legacy / [photographs by] Gordon Watkinson ; with essays by Falk Jaeger and Peter Cachola Schmal, as well as contributions by Michael Siebenbrodt and twelve architects ; [translated from the German, Julian Reisenberger].

Publication:

Berlin : Foto Synthesis ; Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2009.

Description:

232 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Bauhaus architecture : myths and misconceptions / Michael Siebenbrodt in conversation with Gordon Watkinson -- From Bauhaus to your house / Peter Cachola Schmal -- Bauhaus architecture versus "starchitecture" / Michael Siebenbrodt in conversation with Gordon Watkinson -- A subversive legacy / Falk Jaeger -- Bauhaus architecture : solutions for a new century / Michael Siebenbrodt in conversation with Gordon Watkinson -- A design traveler / Gordon Watkinson -- How will we live in the future? -- Work environments of aesthetic perfection -- Constructed architectural manifestos -- The Bauhaus aesthetic becomes Bauhaus style -- Solutions for the housing issues of the day -- Modular steel constructions for experimental living environments -- Achieving variety in multistory housing -- Buildings shaped by their purpose -- Reforming schools as an architectural discipline -- A new building type in the past and present -- The ideal of seamless flowing space -- Civilized living with a panoramic view -- Architects.
Architects: Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten -- Rolf disch -- Buro fur Solararchitektur -- Fink+Jocher -- Galli & Rudolf Architekten -- Walter Gropius -- Ingvartsen Arkitekter -- Hannes Meyer -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Georg Muche -- Richard Paulick -- Petzinka Pink Architekten -- Graham Phillips -- RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Arquitectes -- Sauerbruch Hutton -- Werner Sobek Ingenieure -- Architekt Vogl-Fernheim -- Wingardhs.
Translation from the German: Julian Reisenberger.

Summary:

Collection of 18 essays exploring the achievements and legacy of the Bauhaus school. With accompanying photographs and plans of original architectural projects, along side modern buildings constructed under the influence of the Bauhaus ideal. Also contains profiles of the architects and offices responsible for the buildings featured, including: Rolf Disch, Fink + Jocher, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Hans Meyer, Richard Paulick and Graham Phillips.

ISBN:

9783034600545
3034600542
9783034600552 (German ; hardcover ; alk. paper)
3034600550 (German ; hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Bauhaus.
Bauhaus Influence.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture Germany History 20th century.
Functionalism (Architecture) 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Modern movement (Architecture) Influence.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Fonctionnalisme (Architecture) 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Influence.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Modern
Functionalism (Architecture)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Funktionalism.
Arkitektur.
Germany

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
History

Added entries:

Watkinson, Gordon.
Jaeger, Falk.
Cachola Schmal, Peter, 1960-
Siebenbrodt, Michael.

Bauhaus twenty-twenty-one

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263848
Call No.: BIB 195145
Status: Available