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Tag Archives: Bauhaus
The trenches of modernism
Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school, died fifty years ago today. A new biography is out, Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus, by Fiona MacCarthy. Two major houses published it simultaneously, Faber & Faber in the U.K. … Continue reading
Betsky barks at the Bauhaus
Some might not realize that Aaron Betsky has added to his role as critic for Architect magazine that of director of Taliesin West, the architecture school founded in 1932 by Frank Lloyd Wright and his third wife, Olgivanna. Amid the … Continue reading
Wee wow for Bauwauhauses
“Mutts-have: Architects create luxury kennels for charity auction” is the headline of this story by Guardian critic Oliver Wainwright. “Mutts-have”? … I’m sorry, that really does not cut the mustard. Mutts-have ≠ must-have. And if you glide down the complement of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Bauhaus, Bow Wow Haus Auction, Dogs, Kennels, London, St Pancras Renaissance London Hotel, Zaha Hadid
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Perils of architecture school
Common/Edge is a website about architecture. All of the essays are written well, but many seem to try to have it both ways about the battle over style in architecture. So I’m not quite sure how Prof. Nikos Salingaros managed … Continue reading
From Bauhaus to Coolhaus
The definition of “to brand” must be to promote a product as the opposite of what it is. For example, take Coolhaus Ice Cream. It riffs on the Bauhaus, the Weimar German cult of artists from which emerged modern … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design
Tagged Bauhaus, Ben & Jerry's, Coolhaus, Ice Cream, modernism, Sealtest
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Hitler’s revenge on America
The journal Places has published, as the inaugural installment in its Future Archive series of forgotten writing of the past century, a 1968 essay for Art in America by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy called “Hitler’s Revenge.” The essay is introduced by Despina … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Ada Louise Huxtable, Bauhaus, Despina Stratigakos, Germany, Hitler, Jane Jacobs, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Places Journal, Sibyl Moholy-Navy, University of Buffalo, Walter Gropius
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