Current information

The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation today

The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is a centre of research, teaching and experimental design. In addition to conserving, researching into and passing on the Bauhaus heritage the Foundation focuses on cities – their contradictions and cultural strength in the face of demographic developments, globalisation and the technological revolution.

Didactic Home

International Bauhaus Summer School 2012

21st to 31st July 2012

Last call for stragglers 31.5.2012!

The Bauhaus’ architects and designers also conceived their housing prototypes as didactic spaces, in order to introduce the user to what they saw as an appropriate way of living in 20th century industrial society. The resulting object and interior design culture had to prove its resilience on the market, and consumers and producers for this vision had to be found. Today, the enforceability of such wholesale interior designs being combined with the idea of shaping the human being seems questionable. The private home is nowadays an inseparable part of the highly individualised lifestyle. At the same time, the repercussions of this lifestyle are so grave that this form of household management can no longer be endured by the environment. Do we therefore need a “Didactic Home” once again? This is the topic of the new International Bauhaus Summer School. Apply now!

Marcel Breuer – design and architecture

Exhibition

Opening on Thursday, 31st May 2012

Friday, 1st June to Saturday, 31st October 2012, Bauhaus building

Together with the Vitra Museum, Weill am Rhein, we present the work by Marcel Breuers – with a special focus on his fascinating architecture

Climate Protection in a World Cultural Heritage Site

Bauhaus building optimised for energy efficiency

With support from the German economic recovery plan (Konjunkturpaket II) in recent months the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation was able to implement compre-hensive energy efficiency optimisation measures at its headquarters in the historic Bauhaus building in Dessau. Overall, the federal government allocated ca. € 3.9 million for the project. The aim of the project was to strike a balance between the conservation of the listed building as a World Cultural Heritage site and the requirements of long-term use – and, expressly, to optimise the building’s energy efficiency.

Press release [pdf/60.5K]

Bauhaus Reisebuch

Weimar. Dessau. Berlin

The first travel guide to all of the German Bauhaus sites – made by Bauhaus-Archive Berlin, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Classic Foundation Weimar. The historic Bauhaus (1919–1933), the legendary design school and its renowned exponents that this travel guide is devoted to, operated within a very concrete, tension-filled political and geographical framework. It left its mark here. From here, from the fascination of the authentic historical site that is complexly mirrored in the present, the history of the Bauhaus “model” is now told in a new way in three chapters. The journey leading from Weimar and Dessau to Berlin for example combines the well known architectonic signets by Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius or the three leading museum collections in these cities with previously hardly noticed matters. The book published by DUMONT-Buchverlag in German and English addresses everyone interested in the Bauhaus and its history. An accompagnying free iPhone app adds an interactive map, details for all sites, a small Bauhaus encyclopedia and more. Further information

Kibbutz and Bauhaus

Exhibition at Bauhaus Dessau

25th November 2011 to 28th May 2012, daily 10 am to 6 pm
Opening on 24th November 2011 at 7 pm

The Bauhaus Dessau Foundattion shows an exhibition on the Kibbutz movement in Palestine/Israel. Many of its most influential planners and pedagogues came from Europe and some of its architects even studied at the Bauhaus. After leaving Nazi Germany they laid the foundation of modern architecture in Israel. In the kibbutzim the social ideals of the Bauhaus were realised in a unique way. Further information

New Infopoint for the Törten Estate

Permanent exhibition at the Coop Building

Tuesday to Sunday from 11 am to 3.30 pm

Together with the Siedlerverband Dessau-Törten and our Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses e.V. we proudly present a new permanent exhibition in Dessau-Törten's former Coop Building. The history of the experimental Törten Estate combined with our new colleagues, the famous Bauhaus "Loan Chickens" searching for a new temporary home!

After Levittown

Bauhaus Kolleg XIII

19th October 2011 to 6th July 2012

The new Bauhaus Kolleg will take Levittown, the role model of American suburbia, and the fate of its latest projects as the starting point of a comparative international study on the economic, social, ecological and cultural implications of a global suburbia. The dramatic fallout of the global financial crisis of 2008 can be seen the clearest in the suburbias – as well as a contemporary version of Bauhaus dwelling fantasies! Further information

After 80 years it's back

bauhaus – the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's new magazine

New: Issue 2, cover theme "Israel" has just been released!

The first issue of the bauhaus magazine was published in December 1926 to coincide with the opening of the Bauhaus building in Dessau. 80 years after the discontinuation of this periodical, we, as the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, are publishing a new magazine under the old name. Twice a year it will cover the present work of an instituition working at the same place where the historical experiment "Bauhaus" has happened – the Bauhaus building in Dessau. Further information

Bauhaus Graphic Designer 2012

The new annual graphic designer, who will define the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's visual appearance in 2012, has been appointed. Amsterdam based studio Our polite society will design two issues of the bauhaus magazine, the program flyers and all project graphics. We're looking forward to this collaboration!

The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's new corporate design

The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation has completely refreshed its corporate design together with the Berlin based agency Hort. Stationery, business cards and logo are all new, the website will be relaunched in the course of this year. Also new: The posters with great images by Finnish photographer Ola Kolehmainen – now available at Bauhaus Dessau and online! Further information

Bauhaus online!

A new portal for everything Bauhaus

Everything worth knowing about the past and present of the Bauhaus is now available on bauhaus-online.de. A comprehensive atlas provides information on people, locations and works, the calendar gathers events and exhibitions, and our magazine takes a fresh look at the Bauhaus cosmos – everything from everyday life to research. The new site is a joint project of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Bauhaus Archive Berlin.