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Bauhaus Lab 2018. The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Architecture | 14.08.2018

Bauhaus Lab 2018. The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector @ Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau

Systems bring order to chaos, allow relationships to be understood/defined, enable standardisation. And depend on a carefully considered, well designed and constructed connector. In 1939 the German architect Konrad Wachsmann developed a metal connector which subsequently became the central component of the General Panel prefabricated construction system developed by Wachsmann in cooperation with Walter Gropius. In 2018 the Bauhaus Lab reflected on that connector, Konrad Wachsmann and

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Einsteinhaus Caputh Konrad Wachsmann
Architecture | 16.05.2016

smow blog Design Calendar: May 16th 1901 – Happy Birthday Konrad Wachsmann!

As an architectural theorist and experimental constructor Konrad Wachsmann played an important role in the development of architectural thinking in the decades following the Second World War, and thus by extrapolation in the development of our contemporary understanding of the built environment. Even if the majority of us cannot always follow his logic. Thus it is perhaps fitting that one of Konrad Wachsmann's first buildings should have been created for a man whose deliberations on the space

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