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Dust & data : traces of the Bauhaus across 100 years /

Dust & Data brings together case studies by scholars from around the world that engage with the history of the Bauhaus as a series of entangled, internationally ramifying problems. One hundred years after the Bauhaus School's founding in 1919, this volume tells its story by interweaving the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Weizman, Ines (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leipzig : Spector Books, [2019]
Subjects:
Bauhaus.
Art, German > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Objects Pattern, Textures, Codes: Theories of Bauhaus Materiality
  • The agency of objects: from Semper to the Bauhaus and beyond / Alina Payne
  • The Bauhaus and the vacuum cleaner / Anselm Wagner
  • Faktur, photography, and the image of labor: on Moholy-Nagy's textures / Pap Avilés
  • Queer coded Bauhaus / Elizabeth Otto
  • The metallic sphere as mechanical eye: reflected identities at the Bauhaus
  • Towards a digital Bauhaus: the analog and the discrete in the glass grids of Josef Albers / Christopher T. Green
  • Reinscribing Mies's materiality / Robin Schuldenfrei
  • From Musterhaus to Meisterhaüser: a trajectory of typologies / Anna-Maria Meister
  • Reverse typographic impressions: archived and archiving affordance between Bauhaus lines / Jörg Paulus
  • Bauhaus on the moon / Nicholas de Monchaux
  • Part 2: Hospital, library, drafting rooms, absent silence: the Bauhaus in Weimar
  • 1919: the turning point at which history failed to turn / Zeynep C̦elik Alexander
  • Epochal trace: László Moholy-Nagy, drawing, and the task of the artist / Joyce Tsai
  • "Reserve Hospital No.11 Art School": the Bauhaus in the period of transition from Wold War I to the Weimar Republic
  • Vkhutemas and the Bauhaus: on common origins and "creation with fire" / Anna Bokov
  • Fate of the books: the library at the Weimar Bauhaus / Frank Simon-Ritz
  • The "second faculty" at the Weimar Bauhaus, with a sidelong glance at Dessau / Peter Bernhard
  • The influence of the Bauhaus on the State Academy of Crafts and Architecture (1926-30) in Weimar / Zsófia Kelm
  • The legacy of the Bauhaus in East Germany: debates at the University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen, HAB) in Weimar: editorial introduction / Ines Weizman
  • Party politics and architecture: the Schmidt-Basel episode at the HAB Weimar in 1958
  • The long path to the restoration of the Bauhaus Dessau (1951-76) / Norbert Korrek and Christiane Wolf
  • The International Bauhaus-Kolloquium in Wiemar (1976-2019): transcripts of filmed interviews
  • Part 3: Refugees, migrants, returnees, travelers: Bauhaus architects in exile
  • Migrant with a conflicted sense of home: Hannes Meyer after the Bauhaus / Thomas Flierl
  • Tibor Weiner's architectural design curriculum in Chile (1946-47) / Daniel Talesnik
  • Bringing Bauhaus modernism to Lithuania: Vladas Švipas's life and influence / Marija Drėmaítė
  • "i have 'changed color' from job to job, and people have always believed me": Bauhäusler and architect Selman Selmanagić in Palestine (1934-38)
  • The Design Centre in Sydney and its Bauhaus origins / Veronica Bremer
  • From Siedlung to township: the Martin Wagner
  • Walter Gropius collaboration at Harvard in the 1940s / Anna Vallye
  • "Companies of scholars": The Architects Collaborative, Walter Gropius, and the politics of expertise at the University of Baghdad
  • Obscured modernism: revisiting the legacy of Gabriel Guevrekian / Hamed Khosravi
  • Bauhaus modernism across the Sykes-Picot line / Ines Weizman
  • Onward: turning dust to data
  • Dust to data: apocalypses of territoriality / Bernhard Siegert
  • Cracks, memory, clouds, and data / Tom McCarthy, and Eyal Wiezman in conversation.