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Book Review: Bauhaus Contemporary

United Kingdom Architecture News - Jun 30, 2014 - 16:35   3981 views

Human - Space - Machine. Stage Experiments at the Bauhaus. Müller & Wesse (Stephan Müller) and Luise Bartels, Torsten Blume, Christian Hiller (Eds.), 2014 + Bauhaus. Schlemmer! - The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s magazine issue 6

Book Review: Bauhaus Contemporary

The Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau has been working for the last years on an amazing programme of publications. A magazine (which can be bought at any German train station) was launched and at the same a series of beautiful new topical books appeared in well sorted bookshops. Human - Space - Machine is one of these books. It has an amazing graphic design, perfect printing and generous iconography. It respects and plays with the aesthetic tradition of the school and in terms of content, it demonstrates how researchers can provide a fresh and new point of view - 95 years after the foundation of the Bauhaus in Weimar - on a story we think we already know.

Book Review: Bauhaus Contemporary

The book and the issue 6 of the Bauhaus magazine both deal with the creations and teachings of Oskar Schlemmer. Book and magazine demonstrate how impactful the history of the Bauhaus and the theories can still be. How they do it? Both publications focus on a particular aspect of the school - theatre - from the angle of its former students and teaching staff and its influence on their everyday life. Theatre at the Bauhaus meant costumes, music, stage design, choreography, communal discussions and parties. These are the elements which also stand for the man who brought the theatre to the Bauhaus: Oskar Schlemmer. But as indicated by the book’s title, Schlemmer’s process does not only spring from the school’s community, it is also a study of space and of machines - fascinations he shares with most of the avant-garde of his time....Continue Reading

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