Title & Author:

The art of joining : designing the universal connector / edited by Phillip Denny and Adam Przywara.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, 2019.

Description:

189 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimile, plans, portraits ; 15 cm

Series:

Bauhaus Taschenbuch ; 23

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-185).
Preface -- The universal connector : a "turning point of building" / Regina Bittner -- Introduction to Bauhaus Lab : Konrad Wachsmann and the universal connector -- Wedge : The wedge connector: from function to symbol / Elizabeth Andrezejewski -- House : Your (general panel) home / Rhiannon Haycock ; Frontiers of prefabrication/prefabrication on frontiers / Adam Przywara -- Factory : Teaching systems: the Building Institute at USC, 1964-74 / Phillip Denny -- Hangar/Atom : Just structures in space / Daniel Springer ; Shifting representations: The Atomic Age between science and design / Eva-Maria Offermann -- Table : Tabula Rasa: Konrad Wachsmann's universalism after the universal connector / Ezgi Isbilen ; The process of building / Lisi Zeininger -- Exhibition.

Summary:

Konrad Wachsmann played an exceptional role among modern architects in helping to industrialize architecture and fostering the potential this contained for an architectural turn. Wachsmann's universal wedge connector, invented in the shadow of World War II and applied in the General Panel System in collaboration with Walter Gropius in the US in 1941, was the point of departure for the Bauhaus Lab 2018. The postgraduate program investigated the historical context and the discourses of transatlantic post-war modernism that come together in the metal connector, while also reflecting on the contemporary relevance of the architectural discourse surrounding the "universal connector."
Wie kaum ein anderer Architekt der Moderne hat Konrad Wachsmann die Industrialisierung des Bauens vorangetrieben und die daran geknüpften Möglichkeiten einer architektonischen Wende befördert. Wachsmanns universeller Standardknoten bildete den Ausgangspunkt für das Bauhaus Lab 2018. Im Schatten des Zweiten Weltkriegs war er von ihm entwickelt worden und kam im General Panel System zum Einsatz, das01941 gemeinsam mit Walter Gropius in den Vereinigten Staaten realisiert wurde. Das Graduiertenprogramm hat den historischen Kontext und die Diskurse der transatlantischen Nachkriegsmoderne untersucht, die sich in diesem Metallverbindungsstück bündeln, und nach der zeitgenössischen Relevanz gefragt, die der0Architekturdiskurs um den 'Universalknoten' besaß.

ISBN:

3959052847 (paperback)
9783959052849 (paperback)

Subject:

Wachsmann, Konrad, 1901-1980.
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Buildings Joints History 20th century.
Universal joints History 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Constructions Assemblages Histoire 20e siècle.
Joints de Cardan Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
Buildings Joints.
Universal joints.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Denny, Phillip, editor, contributor.
Przywara, Adam, editor, contributor.
Bauhaus Taschenbuch ; 23.

Designing the universal connector

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 325323
Call No.: 325323
Copy: 1
Status: Available