addenda architects   Germany   The Barcelona firm Addenda Architects – Roberto González, Anne Hinz, Cecilia Rodríguez, Arnau Sastra, and José Zabala –carried the day over 830 others in the 2015 competitition to build this new museum in the German city of Dessau, home of the Bauhau

Heike Hanada   Germany   A work of the German architect Heike Hanada, this new museum opens in time for the centenary of the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919. With its clear-cut geometry, the five-floor concrete volumes presents horizontal grooves on the

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Germany   The new museum interacts with that of Gropius through a geometric discourse: a double gesture of concave subtraction with respect to a virtual prismatic volume characterizes the facade of a new public square and configures an interior garden... [+]

Luis Fernández-Galiano was twice on a scholarship program of the Fundación Juan March – in Spain in 1976-1977 and abroad in 1966-1968 – but his first lecture at the foundation headquarters took place in 2010. In the course of a decade thereafter, he

The Economist   Bauhaus and Brussels are an uneasy mix. Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus art school, which shaped design in the 20th century, declared that a building “must be true to itself...

The history of the Bauhaus has partly been that of a misunderstanding, at least for the general public, which perhaps owing to bestsellers like Tom Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House, has tended to see the school that opened its doors in Weimar a cent

Bauhaus centenary

Laura Martínez de Guereñu   Spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and the political stance of instructors and students may seem minor when it comes to assessing the legacy of the Bauhaus. Do designs, artworks, and buildings cover it all? Elizabeth Otto’s answer is a

Ángela Juarranz   Some monographs stand out because they are well documented, others because they place their subjects in wider historical contexts. This one explores the intertwining of art, science, and military power during the Cold War through the interdisciplina

Eduardo Prieto   The centenary of the Bauhaus has seen an outpouring of perspectives on the mythical school, endeavored to close any remaining historiographic gaps, and pushed readers to the brink of fatigue. It would be hard to count the lectures, seminars, celebrat

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   Since its creation in 1960 the Bauhaus-Archiv, a research center that conserves the largest existing collection of archives of Bauhäusler, has been the principal custodian of the school’s legacy. In addition, in 1979, as Museum für Gestaltung it beca

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   The centenary of the Bauhaus coincides with the fiftieth death anniversary of its founder and director, the architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969). The double celebration seals the association between the figure and the school, however true it is that

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The modernity developed in the crucible of the Bauhaus became the International Style in America. (Two articles by Luis Fernández-Galiano first published in El País in 1999)...

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   A century after its founding, artistic and ideological discrepancies among its leaders refute the previously held perception of a unitary Bauhaus.

Laura Forlano Molly Wright Steenson Mike Ananny   Cambridge (Massachusetts)  2019  
MIT Press   - 342 Pages 

Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave Tomás Carranza   Cádiz  2019  
COA Cádiz   - 86 Pages 

Salvador Guerrero Eduardo Prieto   Madrid  2020  
Ediciones Asimétricas   - 180 Pages 

Sandra Hofmeister   Munich  2019  
Detail   - 160 Pages 

John R. Blakinger   Cambridge (Massachusetts)  2019  
MIT Press   - 486 Pages 

Elizabeth Otto   Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

Carolina Beatriz García Estévez Laura Martínez de Guereñu   Perspectivas desde España

Nina Wiedemeyer   Múnich  2019  
Prestel Publishers   - 240 Pages 

Fiona MacCarthy   La vida del fundador de la Bauhaus.

Magdalena Droste   Colonia  2019  
Taschen   - 400 Pages 

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   Proclamas de modernidad