Main entry:

Neue Meisterhäuser in Dessau, 1925-2014. English.

Title & Author:

The new masters' houses in Dessau, 1925-2014 : debates, positions, contexts / authors: Regina Bittner [and 16 others] ; editors: Wolfgang Thöner, Alexia Pooth ; translation: Simon Cowper, Alicia Reuter.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2017]
©2017

Description:

339 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm.

Series:

Edition Bauhaus ; 46

Notes:
Copyright Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
Model houses and artists' colony ; The design and construction of the masters' houses / Wolfgang Thöner -- Putting "dwelling" on show ; The master's house as model house / Regina Bittner -- The director's house: three lives / Boris Friedewald -- On the freedom and size of bright and sparsely furnished rooms ; László Moholy-Nagy & Lucia Moholy and Josef & Anni Albers at Burkühnauer Allee 2, 1926-1933 / Wolfgang Thöner -- Architectural history : building and usage from 1932-2010 ; Director's house, Moholy-Nagy house, and grounds with garage, wall, and refreshment kiosk / Monika Markgraf -- Interview with Livia Klee-Meyer, who lived as a child in the Schlemmer master's house and the director's house from 1927 to 1929 -- Recollections of Axel and Sabine Rackow, who lived as children in the Gropius masters' house from 1940-1944 -- Ralph Walter Hagemann's memories of living as a child in the Moholy-Nagy masters' house from 1933 to 1945 -- Traces of Dessau in America ; The Gropius house in Lincoln, Massachusetts / Wolfgang Thöner -- The house as palimpsest ; Some remarks on the Emmer House in Dessau / Andreas Schwarting -- From Emmer to Almere ; Critical remarks on the culture of remembrance / Werner Möller -- Masters' houses : timeline / Monika Lüttich -- "The gray whatnot" / Ingolf Kern and Werner Möller -- Armin Linke -- Imprecise modernity ; The masters' houses in Dessau complete once more : a dialogue with Dontella Fioretti and José Marquez (Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architekten), Olaf Nicolai (artist), Ulrike Wendland (state conservator of Saxony-Anhalt), and Philipp Oswalt (director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 2009-2014) / discussion led by Florian Heilmeyer -- Heidi Specker -- Memoria and imprecision / Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architekten -- Masters' houses/model houses / Florian Heilmeyer -- Repairing a world heritage site ; Preservation concepts and artistic approaches in the reconstitution of the Dessau masters' house ensemble / Thomas Will -- In search of authenticity, or Who is the author of a reconstruction / Philipp Oswalt -- Le pigment de la lumière (2014) / Olaf Nicolai -- The architectural surfaces of the masters' houses / Monika Markgraf.
English translation of German original.
English translation of: Neue Meisterhäuser in Dessau, 1925-2014.

ISBN:

9783944669731 (English edition ; hd. bd.)
3944669738 (English edition ; hd. bd.)

Subject:

Bauhaus.
Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architekten
Architecture, Domestic Germany Dessau (Dessau) 20th century.
Artists Dwellings Germany 20th century.
Architects Dwellings Germany 20th century.
Architects Dwellings.
Architecture, Domestic.
Artists Dwellings.
Architecture, Domestic Germany Dessau (Dessau) History 20th century.
Artists Dwellings Germany History 20th century.
Architects Dwellings Germany History 20th century.
Lost architecture Germany Dessau (Dessau)
Buildings Repair and reconstruction Germany Dessau (Dessau)
College teachers Dwellings Germany History 20th century.
Germany.
Germany Dessau (Dessau)
Dessau (Dessau, Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.

Added entries:

Bittner, Regina, author.
Thöner, Wolfgang editor
Pooth, Alexia editor
Bittner, Regina author.
Edition Bauhaus ; 46.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295865
Call No.: BIB 242240
Status: Available