Title & Author:

Hannes Meyer's new Bauhaus pedagogy : from Dessau to Mexico / Philipp Oswalt (ed.).

Edition:

1. Auflage = First edition.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2021]
©2021

Description:

500 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and name index.
Introduction / Philipp Oswalt -- The concealed crises of the Bauhaus / Philipp Oswalt -- Pedogogical concept. Holistic education / Dara Kiese -- Pedagogy in the architecture of Hannes Meyer / Andreas Vass -- The battle over Bauhaus design: Hannes Meyer vs. László Moholy-Nagy / Anthony Fontenot -- Architecture education at German Academies of the Arts in the 1920s / Julia Witt -- bauhaus and society, 1929 / Hannes Meyer -- Bauhäusler on Hannes Meyer / compiled by Philipp Oswalt -- Teachers under Hannes Meyer. Memoirs of a student of architecture / Hubert Hoffmann -- Learning through building practice / Anne Stengel -- Anton Brenner in the Architectural Studio / Anna Stuhlpfarrer -- Ludwig Hilberseimer as a teacher of urban planning / Philipp Oswalt -- Designing for production: the Bauhaus Workshops under Hannes Meyer, 1928-1930 / Norbert Eisold -- Josef Albers in the Carpentry and Wallpaper Workshops / Brenda Danilowitz -- Gunta Stölzl and the Weaving Workshop / Ingrid Radewaldt -- Joose Schmidt: pictorial statistics and advertising / Uta Brüning -- Walter Peterhans and the Photography Course / Rainer K. Wick -- Oskar Schlemmer's course "The Human Being" / Friederike Zimmermann -- Sports / Frank Werner -- The labor psychologist Johannes Riedel / Martin Kipp -- The non-art coursework / Lutz Schöbe -- Meyer's program of guest lectures / Peter Bernhard -- Konrad von Meyenburg's theories on agriculture and planning / Gregory Grämiger -- The guest speakers of the Vienna Circle: Rudolph Carnap, Herbert Feigel, Otto Neurath, Hans Reichenbach / Peter Galison -- Karel Teige: typography, propaganda, poetry, architecture / Simone Hain -- Meyers Pedagogy after the Bauhaus. "Proletarian engineer-architect": Hannes Meyer at Moscow's Higher Institute of Architecture and Building (VASI} / Tatiana Efrussi -- On the Methodology of Teaching Architecture: notes for a lecture, May 23, 1931 / Hannes Meyer -- The Institute for Planning and Urbanism: Hannes Meyer's failed attempt at education in the Mexican milieu of the 1930s / Raquel Franklin -- The formation of the architect / Hannes Meyer -- Convergences / divergences: Hannes Meyer and the hfg ulm / Gui Bonsiepe -- V students of Hannes Meyer. "Bauhaus know-how not applicable"? The Bauhaus Red Front Brigade in Moscow / Tatiana Efrussi -- Tibor Weiner: from the Soviet Union to South America / Daniel Talesnik -- Lotte Stam-Beese: from Sotsgorod in Kharkiv to urban planning in Rotterdam / Hanneke Oosterhof -- Arieh Sharon and the architecture of the new state of Israel / Zvi Efrat -- Konrad Püschel: an urban planner in the Soviet Union, North Korea, and the German Democratic Republic / Norbert Korrek -- Fritz Ertl: Bauhaus student and architect at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp / Adina Seeger -- Swiss architect Hans Fischli: an unorthodox modernist / Sebastian Holzhausen -- Ludwig Leo: a virtual student? / Gregor Harbusch -- Appendix: Courses and events at the Bauhaus Dessau, 1927-1930

Summary:

""The people's needs over the need for Luxury": Hannes Meyer's radical quest for objectivity and usability in teaching at the Bauhaus elicited bewilderment and opposition. Investigating Meyer demystifies the Bauhaus and casts it in a new light." -- Back cover.

ISBN:

9783959053068 paperback
3959053061 paperback

Subject:

Meyer, Hannes, 1889-1954.
Bauhaus.
Architecture Study and teaching Germany Dessau (Dessau) History 20th century.
Architecture Study and teaching
Germany Dessau (Dessau)

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Meyer, Hannes, 1889-1954.
Oswalt, Philipp, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309438
Call No.: BIB 254692
Status: Available