Even before the The Masters’ Houses and the Bauhaus building itself were included on the #
UNESCO World Heritage List because of their unique cultural heritage there had been a world wide interest in the buildings designed by Walter Gropius.
Now the restoration and rebuilding of the historical buildings has been completed it is possible once again to get a complete impression of the ensemble, despite the fact that two of the original seven buildings are no longer there.
New developments for infrastructure and supply significantly shaped the Modernist architecture. Supplying the growing cities with buildings for electrification, for employment offices, for health care or for culture such as theatres or cinemas required another architectural approach. Technical developments in building technology influenced architecture to a great extent, for example with the equipment with modern heating, air conditioning, elevators or telephone.
Preserving this architecture with its special features is a challenge today. The technical equipment of individual buildings can also significantly determine the architecture.
These elements, which correspond to the ideas and regulations of the time, should be retained as essential components of the architecture, but they don’t meet today’s requirements and regulations. For the preservation of the architecture the infrastructure and the supply technology of the modern age, the exact documentation and the identification of the essential characteristics of modern architecture is a basis for correct preservation.
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Modern Architecture, Infrastructure And Supply Technology 18th Docomomo Germany conference online conference on Friday, February 26, 2021 Program of the conference
The conference is a joint event by Docomomo Germany, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the Technical University of Ostwestfalen-Lippe ( TH OWL) - Detmold School for Architecture and Interior Design
“Despite its surface rhetoric of rationality, clarity and efficiency, and smooth surfaces, the Bauhaus was never straightforward. Bauhauslers were engaged with everything that escapes rationality: sexuality, violence, esoteric philosophies, occultism, disease, the psyche, pharmacology, extraterrestrial life, artificial intelligence, chance, the primitive, the fetish, the animal, plants, etc. The Bauhaus was in fact a veritable cauldron of perversions.”
A sweater by
Lisbeth Oestreicher, showing the German-occupied Austria, Czechoslovakia and
Memel Territory, 1939. (scan from Netherlands ⇄ Bauhaus – Pioneers of a new world)