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Ois Anders: Major Projects in Bavaria 1945-2020, Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte, Regensburg
Architecture | 20.08.2024

Ois Anders: Major Projects in Bavaria 1945-2020 at the Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte, Regensburg

In 1998 the then, German President, and native of Bavaria, Roman Herzog opined, "In München sind Lederhose und Laptop eine Symbiose eingegangen", 'In Munich, lederhose and laptops have entered into a symbiosis'. One of innumerable partisan puffs for the Freistaat over the decades by Bavarian politicians; but also a very neat political statement implying that the popular image of Bavaria as being all about mountains, forests, lakes, rivers and rugged herders on livestock dense alms, was no

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Munich Creative Business Week 2024

Munich Creative Business Week 2024, Servus!

Established in 2012, so a good three and half years after smow Blog, just sayin', Munich Creative Business Week, MCBW, is today, according to its own claim, "Germany's largest design event". A claim we see absolutely no reason to doubt, but also haven't tried to verify. Primarily because we see so little reason to doubt it. Despite our famed cynicism. Initiated by bayern design, Bavaria's "international design competence centre", and from the very beginning known as Munich Creative Business

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#campustour 2019: Germany - Bavaria
Architecture | 22.08.2019

#campustour 2019: Germany - Bavaria

If the recent history of Germany is one of East and West, the longer history is one of North and South; a history which, and simplifying to the point of falsehood, saw the rivalry and conflict between the Hanseatic League and the traders of the southern states become a rivalry and conflict between Prussia and the realms of Baden, Württemberg, Hessen and Bavaria: the latter being the most reluctant to ratify the 1870 November Treaties and join the new Deutsches Reich. A reluctance expressed not

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Bayerischer Staatspreis für Nachwuchsdesigner 2014 Winners Honorary Recognitions Jury
Awards | 24.02.2015

Bayerischer Staatspreis für Nachwuchsdesigner 2014: Winners

Among the regional German design awards the Bavarian Design Award is particularly notable being as it is an award exclusively for young design talents. Inaugurated in 1987 the Bayerischer Staatspreis für Nachwuchsdesigner is in addition, and as far as we are aware, the only design award anywhere to also include a category dedicated to Gestaltendes Handwerk - Applied Crafts. The inclusion of the category is invariably a subtle nod to not only the strength of traditional crafts in Bavaria but

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