Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture at the Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin
“To meet the needs of a living architecture,” opined Otti Berger in 1930, “we need clarity about what fabric is, and further, what fabric in space is”.1
With the showcase Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture the Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, allow one to begin to approach appreciations of what both Otti Berger understood as fabric, “and further, what fabric in space is”, and in doing so not only enable differentiated perspectives on Weaving and Modernist Architecture but allow Otti Berger to begin to retake her place on the helix of design, and architecture, (hi)story……
5 Online Architecture & Design Exhibitions for May 2020
While we’d all much rather physically visit architecture and design museums, our current enforced virtual patronage does allow us all an excellent opportunity to begin to understand architecture and design museums as more than just an exhibition space with shop and café, and to begin to learn to interact with them, and for all their collections, in new, proactive, manners. To understand architecture and design museums as tools as much as institutions.
And while a virtual visit can never replace a physical one, it can help us extenuate and expand our understandings and thereby allow us to take even more from that physical visit. And those physical visits will return.
Until then, volume two of our online recommendations takes you from your sofa to Berlin, Hamburg, Bloomfield Hills, Mumbai, München, and hopefully and awful lot further…..
Jasper Morrison. Thingness at the Bauhaus Archiv Berlin
Thingness. Noun. [ˈthiŋ-nəs] The quality or state of objective existence or reality1
Thingness. Exhibition. [ˈthiŋ-nəs] A comprehensive Jasper Morrison retrospective currently on show at the Bauhaus Archiv Berlin.
smow blog compact: Bauhaus Archiv Berlin present Textile Design Today – From Experiment to Series
Mild-mannered and polite as we are, we still occasionally find ourselves causing offence, arousing feelings of mild outrage and generally
smow blog compact: bauhaus re use @ Bauhaus Archiv Berlin
Given that Bauhaus is often perceived as having been an incubator for the creative talents of the 1920s, it is
Bauhaus Archiv Berlin: Sammlung Bauhaus & 100 New Objects
Following the necessary disruption of their permanent exhibition to accommodate the recently ended exhibition Sensing the Future: László Moholy-Nagy, die
smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: October
……and continued over Budapest and on to Berlin – where amongst other delights we partook of the exhibitions Sensing the
smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: March
According to our pictorial review of March 2013 it was “a month of travelling: Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Weimar, Dessau….. its amazing
Sensing the Future: László Moholy-Nagy, die Medien und die Künste at the Bauhaus Archiv Berlin
In his 1936 film “Modern Times” Charlie Chaplin is famously swallowed by the wheels of progress in a short yet
Bauhaus Archiv Berlin: Wassily Kandinsky – Lehrer am Bauhaus
Amid all the hype surrounding “Bauhaus Style”, “Bauhaus Classic” and “Bauhaus Design” it is often forgotten that Bauhaus was a
Bauhaus Archiv Berlin: New Architecture! Modern Architecture in Images and Books
Until June 10th the Bauhaus Archiv Berlin is presenting “New Architecture! Modern Architecture in Images and Books”, an exhibition devoted
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: November
With autum’s algid wind in our faces and the promise of mince pies and Glühwein in our tails we approached
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: August
A summer silly season with 360 degree product images and handmade bottle openers explaining the difference between craft and design
Bauhaus Archiv Berlin: Mein Reklame-Fegefeuer. Herbert Bayer. Werbegrafik 1928 – 1938
Until Monday February 24th 2014 the Bauhaus Archive Berlin is presenting the exhibition “Mein Reklame-Fegefeuer. Herbert Bayer. Werbegrafik 1928 –
5 New Design Exhibitions for November 2013
As we are sure you will appreciate we tend to shy away from recommending anything we haven’t seen and/or tested
Bauhaus Archiv Berlin: Poesie & Industrie. Barbara Schmidt. Porzellandesign.
In our post “Wilhelm Wagenfeld Reviews Design for Use, USA” we quoted Wagenfeld’s assertion that “In the current age machines
Bauhaus Archiv Berlin: DMY Awards and Jury Selection 2012
Ever since DMY Berlin inaugurated their “Three from Ten” Awards in 2009 the Bauhaus Archiv Berlin has honoured the nominees
Bauhaus Art as Life @ Barbican Art Gallery London: Dr. Annemarie Jaeggi
On May 3rd the exhibition “Bauhaus: Art as Life” opens at the Barbican Art Gallery London. Organised in co-operation with