Main entry:

Neue Meisterhäuser in Dessau, 1925-2014. English.

Title & Author:

The new masters' houses in Dessau, 1925-2014 : debates, positions, contexts / authors: Regina Bittner [and 16 others] ; editors: Wolfgang Thöner, Alexia Pooth ; translation: Simon Cowper, Alicia Reuter.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2017]
©2017

Description:

339 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm.

Series:

Edition Bauhaus ; 46

Notes:
Copyright Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
Model houses and artists' colony ; The design and construction of the masters' houses / Wolfgang Thöner -- Putting "dwelling" on show ; The master's house as model house / Regina Bittner -- The director's house: three lives / Boris Friedewald -- On the freedom and size of bright and sparsely furnished rooms ; László Moholy-Nagy & Lucia Moholy and Josef & Anni Albers at Burkühnauer Allee 2, 1926-1933 / Wolfgang Thöner -- Architectural history : building and usage from 1932-2010 ; Director's house, Moholy-Nagy house, and grounds with garage, wall, and refreshment kiosk / Monika Markgraf -- Interview with Livia Klee-Meyer, who lived as a child in the Schlemmer master's house and the director's house from 1927 to 1929 -- Recollections of Axel and Sabine Rackow, who lived as children in the Gropius masters' house from 1940-1944 -- Ralph Walter Hagemann's memories of living as a child in the Moholy-Nagy masters' house from 1933 to 1945 -- Traces of Dessau in America ; The Gropius house in Lincoln, Massachusetts / Wolfgang Thöner -- The house as palimpsest ; Some remarks on the Emmer House in Dessau / Andreas Schwarting -- From Emmer to Almere ; Critical remarks on the culture of remembrance / Werner Möller -- Masters' houses : timeline / Monika Lüttich -- "The gray whatnot" / Ingolf Kern and Werner Möller -- Armin Linke -- Imprecise modernity ; The masters' houses in Dessau complete once more : a dialogue with Dontella Fioretti and José Marquez (Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architekten), Olaf Nicolai (artist), Ulrike Wendland (state conservator of Saxony-Anhalt), and Philipp Oswalt (director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 2009-2014) / discussion led by Florian Heilmeyer -- Heidi Specker -- Memoria and imprecision / Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architekten -- Masters' houses/model houses / Florian Heilmeyer -- Repairing a world heritage site ; Preservation concepts and artistic approaches in the reconstitution of the Dessau masters' house ensemble / Thomas Will -- In search of authenticity, or Who is the author of a reconstruction / Philipp Oswalt -- Le pigment de la lumière (2014) / Olaf Nicolai -- The architectural surfaces of the masters' houses / Monika Markgraf.
English translation of German original.

ISBN:

9783944669731 (English edition ; hd. bd.)
3944669738 (English edition ; hd. bd.)

Subject:

Bauhaus.
Architecture, Domestic Germany Dessau (Dessau) 20th century.
Artists Dwellings Germany 20th century.
Architects Dwellings Germany 20th century.
Architects Dwellings
Architecture, Domestic
Artists Dwellings
Germany
Germany Dessau (Dessau)

Added entries:

Bittner, Regina, author.
Edition Bauhaus ; 46.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295865
Call No.: BIB 242240
Status: Available