Africa. You know what team if holistic if they think that. Free thinking. Honest their fiduciary values critical fast. German that is about house. After 100 years the ideals of the bonds are more relevant today than they were then the spa holds for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future. Of even how we learn. About house a aipac the boat house influence is everywhere. You go house set out to formulate a language of design that was universal. As alice is that everything has an ideal high its an ideal size and thats what optimize its utility but not in the way they want this kind of push to go wherever you are properly with your design everywhere when youre an artist. About house is a legend the brilliance of the Bauhaus School remains undiminished even today. Even though its existence was short lived it continues to shape the world we live in. New approaches to education and training architecture painting down and design were explored and developed here. When hitler seized power and forced the school to shut down its artists architects and visionaries emigrated fanning out and spreading the bow house doctrine around the world. What became of the bell house utopia and the principle that good design can improve peoples lives. In the early 1960 s. Vantage o. P. s drew up plans for a large Housing Estate on the outskirts of berlin modern urban planning would tackle the housing shortage nearly all the new homes were earmarked for no income families. 30 years after the closure of the bauhaus the project sought to put the schools vision into action a better life for many people over moving to the copier starts with a dream they are sure luxury shows them one another on a huge apartment with a bathroom and everythings all running out water unbelievable. I still love the cold. Here to vice becca and tan scale moved into the cold as soon as it was completed. Until i got married in 1989 and there were no apartments to be had anywhere nowadays things are easy in comparison housing was desperately needed back then one morning. When the old loans is to short also moved here in 1900. 29 applications for apartments i got for offers including this place for you i didnt have a car but i knew there was an underground start here so i took the offer here. For the sake of the guy in the late 1950 s. And early 1960 s. Solutions to the housing crisis became more ambitious almost on the long run to happiness and his Architecture Firm tech the architects collaborative were tasked with drawing up a master plan of debate and i must stop. Even before the war the rear courtyard buildings that many tenement blocks in berlin had been torn down to make the apartments in the front light and area new housing projects were to be built in the cities green outskirts to force their own goal saw shuttle launch off the idea of huge urban estates had already been explored on paper as a utopian vision by architects in the 1920 s. By to. Pierce his vision of an urban utopia was defeated by circumstances beyond his control in 1961 communist east germany built the ballin wall dividing the city into and exacerbating the housing shortage. Copious and. Originally planned residential blocks with 14500 apartments and a maximum of foreseeing floors in the end there were 19000 apartments and up to 30 floors. Gropius his original vision ended up massively compromised. The rest. So he didnt want just patches of green he wanted a landscape with green flowing spaces between the buildings and in the. In his vision nature wasnt contained it was an intake all part of the us stayed indoors from his by this point vital p. S. Had long been living in the us but. Didnt have much time. Before he could only be reached by phone. Knowing that he paid a visit maybe 3 times a year or so. He was never in charge of the project and it was more of a consultant not the godfather of the. Gropius came to berlin when the Foundation Stone was laid. But he wasnt involved with the construction and there was nothing he could do about the final result all peoples houses with 10 years did everything in his power to prevent his name being attached to the project he was deeply unhappy about it there was no doubt about it at that because in after his death the whole complex was named after him which must have made him turn in his grave. By the 1980 s. That had gained a reputation as a troubled neighborhood a rundown concrete jungle with new tenants coming and going all the time and lots of derelict apartments. That frequently hit the headlines as a crime hotspot. But to use her advice becca and tan scale meet her it was home. I love and people were happy here and i didnt understand what all the bad headlines were about we didnt see it like hurt at all we lived here with our children and we liked it as a shared. Today gore is once again popular with families the area is getting spruced up thanks to renovation work and Community Outreach projects this utopian vision of urban life is still a work in progress. Elsewhere in the world utopias a further out of reach in latin americas major cities theres a lot of room for improvement in housing and infrastructure. Many urban planners there would agree with the bauhaus principle that architects baz social responsibility. Would still end. Our work has architects and urban planners is about people. People matter to carry. An urban planner from meddling in colombia a city where infrastructure problems have long loomed large. Traffic clogs the streets and spawning for veils define the cityscape. Its nearly impossible for buses to pass through these narrow steep streets. Of place but then the city has an idea. Today 6 outdoor escalate has extend to 384 metres up the hillside now the 140000 residents of Community One of the citys poorest neighborhoods no longer need to make the climb by foot. Jayco castano is well aware of how the escalators have affected the district. Im 33 and ive lived here all my life here with my mother sister and son. The escalators are a major tourist attraction a bonus for locals like j. K. Iraq but who gives guided tools of the areas best graffiti. In the past few visitors would have debt to venture into comune that tessa reputed to be the most dangerous neighborhood of whats often called the worlds most dangerous city. Like life theres more to come you will meet friends of mine lost their lives many neighbors lots of people just disappear it happened a lot around here over the school. Improving peoples minds this was the vision of powerhouse today that creation also encompasses Infrastructure Projects like these help dont escalate this. Because theres no money but its going to escalate as themselves only from the point the point is what theyve been lifting people in the sense of community. Theyve created a sense of belonging of happiness and pride in the neighborhood they get out. There in the far more than 30 families with small shops live near the escalators so thanks to the escalators local businesses are doing much better because someone you look at obviously thats going to. Go oh oh oh i thought oh yes then well. These days consuelo gussie is shop is trying. Time seems to be tougher. Thank you getting around used to be much harder. In the summer it was very hard terrible as it is here in the roads werent paved. No no they werent we had streets of mud you out here a month thats right but there were lots of houses here back then werent there. These days yes many will make a voyage and i would leave once thats right is not what i thought it was a narrow path a steep slope sometimes there be water gushing down it. It was a narrow sunken footpath you know. The escalators and the cable cars on the other side of the city that connect it to the 1st name does have attracted international attention. Into sounds inserting measuring listening to the worlds most innovative city. To tell you nancy i did as you know. Sure its a beautiful city very photogenic very friendly but there is more than one narrative of whats happened here. These Infrastructure Projects were designed to improve public transport like the cable cars but the alter your motive was to sell the city the city has responded itself. But is it no matter. In doing so it hasnt always put its residents needs front and center a further cable car line is under development. Based together with other Infrastructure Projects has put some 600. 00 families at risk of losing their homes. The city for tourists or for those who live here. Urban planners like carolyn do what they can to ensure its for the people who live there. Mexico embraced many of the ideas 1st explored at the battle house as early as the 1920 s. And then in 1939 former bauhaus director harness meyer received an invitation. He became head of the new institute for urban planning in mexico city. There arent many buildings by meyer he spent 10 years in mexico but we dont have a single one. Nevertheless harness my influence an entire generation of mexican architects. Seemed to let it influence him as i can say with absolute certainty that bell has had a huge influence on many mexican architects who mario panning for example. In may he be a bunny and partner has been a major influence on me im sure that hundreds meyer had a big effect on him and theres many a time when you have no. Architect there bilbao is interested in social housing. Yes theres a living in the. Situation in mexico is very difficult theres a huge demand for housing. And the housing that is available is poor quality very rundown. She wants to build Affordable Housing that does more than just meet minimum government standards. Im interested in the structure and my idea was to design the structure for a house that could be extended to become larger than 43. 00 square metres because thats just too small but i mean we wanted a flexible design that could respond to different needs and climate conditions thats one thats expandable that. Said unless lets see what that means but im going to say if. Shes designed a flexible pro. Type for a house that can be easily reproduced much like. Gang houses indes out its intended for the very poorest members of Mexican Society and is subsidized by the government the most affordable version costs just 8000. 00. The core of each house is made of concrete block the innovation is that this can be expanded with flexible modules. The population of mexico is growing rapidly inspired by the utopian vision of the ballot house bill dallas well designed homes are a progressive and creative solution to the countrys housing shortage. They were there for a matter. When maybe its a naive entering the idea that architects have the potential to make a difference with. No premier but i believe we did. In the 4th to me the most is the vision of the future it demonstrated what architects can do to help people in their lives. So they will mask it and all of that its in the receiver that identify most with the movement. In miami and. How this maya spent 10 years in mexico. At a time when its left wing government was introducing sweeping social reforms. To this it is that the new yorker dates here insisted that architecture was an art form. And nobody and. They were resistant to harness myras hardly a rationalist approach. No more. So what did the miner accomplish this year forecasts a project on the plan to build units on every corner. This year my list for 10 years left we dont have a single building here in mexico city where he actually designed all story that made you but we do have many buildings that are a testament to his influence. That theres so much to me you have no. Film about house teaches josefa and any ibos also helped our house ideas spread across latin and south america. The couple traveled extensively through mexico cuba peru and chile frequently guest teaching. And the albus fell in love with mexican weaving techniques and traditional south american textiles back at black mounting college she passed on to her students what she did lambs. Mexican artist and more munoz sites on the albums textiles and prints as a major influence on her work on the yucatan peninsula she founded you cut tech a social project for mayan women that marries tech and tradition. These seamstresses used to work in a textiles factory that closed down. Theyve now found new ways to use their skills. In some project though on this beautiful that meant this project is collaborative and participatory the basic aim is to apply the do it yourself spirit to traditional crafting and the Maker Movement closing the gap between artists in all creativity and technology. The. Business side on all the cases theyre making here this panel and the electrical sombrero hat it all works with rechargeable batteries but there are other godless. The solar panels are connected to each other using conductive steel thread forming an electrical circuit the women combine the conductive thread with henican the type of garvey that grows in the yucatan peninsula. Once a solar panel has charged for about 5 hours during the daytime it can provide enough light for 2 nights. Not to look at its really useful at night when its pitch dark in my village. Its on all night and its so useful when i need to go to the toilet or hear a strange noise. Its a bright light its very useful. More encourages the women to feel proud of their skills and to find creative ways of using them. Both of them. But at this also how does your husband feel about you understanding how solar power and l. E. D. S. Work and what a battery is what youve learned to the basic principles of engineering even if you dont realize it. See. Its a great advantage for me what ive learned and many that will help me in the future with. This is working with new materials and products is providing these women with a new life we have it. Is that. Were thinking of making new products and taking them to market so people can buy them. These days not much traditional hedican is grown in the yucatan region the market is dominated by imported synthetic fiber from china. So not going to most the technology can be used to ensure that all your fashion and skills are forgotten it can help keep your craft and a traditional lives so why not use it. More munoz has found a way of Fusing Technology and textiles to secure a professional future for my and crafts women. She was partly inspired by the work of powerhouse artist. Ai got up as any and bears. And the others 1st arrived at Black Mountain college she had to adjust to the circumstances. There were few materials to work with for example so she began using natural materials like pastor grass shrugs eucalyptus and shoot them implement the illicit shed leave them together with industrial materials just as we did with you cuttack big not. Every day design thats a hybrid of handmade and high tech is this the utopian vision of the bow house in action yet both houses the press in theres a strong bow house influence in many parts of latin america a strong connection but you see it with a Little Utopia like this one here of this little social experiment it may be small scale but its exactly what they were aiming for when they established the bell house hows. The moment to your leave your line friends ultimately you dont see the influence of an actual product any more of those a lot of time has passed. 100 years thats a long time. But its philosophy using trends in the way designers are taught and trained in the us your love for the most your they lost and sing over the past is always the starting point. Is a. Bauhaus was a movement but it was 1st and foremost a school its goal was to foster a new generation for a new beginning education was of paramount importance. The inauguration of the new campus of the German School in madrid. Students and professional dancers are exploring the premises experiencing space through movement and idea that also has roots in the bow house and downs workshops. This is. A key to the schools architecture is very striking it makes a statement that says loudly and clearly this is the German School this is our identity the minute i entered and saw how open it was i was won over its unbounded. The architecture expresses the openminded identity of the school. At the bauhaus the transparency of the architecture was coupled with a fresh open minded approach to education here that signalled by exposed concrete glass and many of. The buildings each frame and in a courtyard together they form a honeycomb with me she is for students to gather in. The skylights create a play of light and shade. A concept there are several key factors in the architectural concept thats very important to us as a school is that it expresses how the separate structures form an ensemble a Community Connected by the courtyards. Knowledge classroom windows overlook the surrounding landscape and. We are very fortunate to have such a beautiful Natural Environment the greenery the colors it creates a peace and quiet a sense of longevity all of which is conducive to learning the lesson height. Of. Perspective in doing office decent. Todays society calls for a new approaches to learning. Which architecture can help consolidate. Density i think foolish and form the architectural forms of the building and clearly have a structural aesthetic and artistic value. Via that was up to us it also has a very pragmatic well you know our teachers use it as a reference for lots of sketching and Creative Work with the students so its also a source of inspiration as im bored it does stuart i was inspired the year. I. Was. There for. The site this is shows how meaningful buildings can be and how the building help students identify with their school. How do we want to live in the future this was the central question posed by the bauhaus 100 years later is one that still being post. Here for example. She cargo birthplace of the skyscraper a city thats always drawn architects from all over the world. The id institute of design was founded in 1037 as the new bauhaus taking up the mantle from the German School. Today it focuses on whats called human centered design an approach that has little to do with architecture all furniture. Instead it seeks to shape peoples lived reality one focus of research is a project called recovery park in detroit michigan. There are more abandoned lots in the inner city here than anywhere else in the u. S. With the collapse of the Auto Industry in detroit the city went into decline unemployment is rife. In 2013 the city of detroit filed for bankruptcy. Leaf. Detroit has lost 2 thirds of its population so weve gone from a city of course the 2000000 people to a city just hovering around 600000 weve done a lot of work with Design Thinking people out of chicago to really think about how to use land effectively how to rebuild infrastructure in a different kind of way how to create the jobs. Gary was a film a drug addict he spent time in jail and after he was released struggled to find work. His personal experience drove him to set up recovery park. Its an urban Agricultural Initiative that uses vacant land and provides jobs for over 20 people. For social mission is to create jobs for people with barriers to employment so people coming out of prison people struggling with you know disease of addiction people of literacy issues homelessness issues chronic unemployment issues we provide 100 Percent Health care for our employees we make sure that people have housing we make sure they have transportation to make sure they have clothing make sure they have food in their clobbered at home we provide all those things these people must only work here if they can also learn a trade and evolution of the bow house ethos design has gone social. Kevin harrison is training as a guard now. Dead by the. Wall and then goes off to stores and feeds people and thats is beautiful i love i love what i do. It really is like like you know start from the seed in the closet with the people this is beautiful for gary was a recovery park is more than a job creation scheme for the socially and economically disadvantaged the enterprises urban farm currently supplies 133 restaurants he hopes that recovery park will one day be the biggest urban aquaculture business in the u. S. I still want to be the motor city because thats given us a worldwide brand but i also want to be known as a food so i also want to be known as a social impact so that. The social impact of architecture is also a central concern of bellin based architects juergen my aha his experimental utopias push the boundaries of what architecture can do often transgressing them the house father. Today is confronted with a challenge Design Planning has to be innovative on several fronts. The 1st of course in terms of construction. Materials and methods of pave the way for very different types of architecture so in seville for example we build something with laminated timber and a poly your thing coating thats now the biggest wood construction in the world to. The metropole parasol in Seville Spain has a maximum width of 150 meters over 3000. 00 wooden parts are held together with glue initially there were doubts it would work. The high performing glue is a Technical Innovation the architect wants to expand the boundaries of. The possible. His organic design has breathed new life into seville is old course and. Yoga in my high has been called germanys greatest architectural hope since about house his designs would have been technologically unfeasible in days using 3 d. Modeling he can incorporate prefabricated elements without full fitting is that a value. Hes currently working on a building for a university in berlin. We have my sister group that are building this very sculptural are made of in for lightweight concrete contains from glass gravel and clay aggregates to improve the concrete insulation capacity so were not fossil free for some without folly styrene and additional insulation. It will be a very low Maintenance Building their bottoms are most holes. At the ballot house gropius also experimented with new forms and materials. If he was still designing buildings perhaps they would look like your going my a hoss sculptural but also practical. About house is a thing of the past. As is the flowering of reconstruction and the abundance that marks the postwar years in the west. Todays design experts must address the explosion of urban populations and the shortage of housing in times of dwindling resources. Now how to. Spell house was very interested in sustainability in being economical with resources and. Tiriel we shouldnt forget that this was an era of rampant poverty i miss the our army. Top of our house never had any funds and the students had to be very thoughtful with the materials they worked with. The. Thinking small thats at the heart of a social experiment underway on the grounds of the ballot house archive in berlin the tiny house university. The projects initiated is german architect. The spa holds for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future i did time when the system was changing from a monarchy to a democracy. Back then no one knew exactly what democracy would look like what equal rights for all would look like what a home would look like if everyone had a right to their own kitchen filled with light and with about what would a society in which everyone had access to education actually look like. Today people are once again rethinking architecture and education from the ground up. These are all to their homes and this is where people can experiment fashion a question theyll be investigating is how can we revolutionize architecture and learning and it starts with small questions for example how can we use space without owning it. Is thats where the idea of the tiny house comes in one which i find very charming and from a tiny house on wheels if its on wheels and has a number plate it has the legal status of a car and a car doesnt need its own piece of land out. Here and all this kind of mass like this in place is 6. 4 square metres line thats not much at all but when you look around it feels generous here hes a poor fellow there are really high windows in the ceilings are 3. 6 metres high. Is it time we reevaluated our standards could we learn to live in less than 7 square metres we could solve a lot of problems by downsizing. As i hear this is because it. All in tears this is the bathroom. Yes this is a toilet a composting toilet and this is the shower solution. The modest wooden house is the result of an ambitious idea an affordable flexible and democratic living solution a house for Digital Nomads for people who dont need or want to be tied down they could set up home anywhere even a campsite. The modular tiny house is a most vile recyclable and easy to assemble. On a tiny houses to tiny house is a movement that were working for the good of society looking for answers to urgent problems such as hunger access to water energy migration those wont be solved on a campsite that is of. The worlds population is expected to reach 10000000000 by 2050 new Living Solutions are urgently called for so. The idea that we need to own as much as possible is very very deep inside us sell sell what want dont ask questions weve been doing that for 100 years now we need to rethink this we need to ask ourselves is constant consumption is doing us any good and i dont consume construct thats my motto. When every inch of the earth has been built on well we need to find a new planet to colonize. Interesting lee to get to mars the moon would be the stopping point so the moon makes mars possible. Said Norman Foster one of the worlds leading architects has already started exploring new frontiers. Ive always been fascinated by space by flight by aircraft. Travel. Lamars project with grew out of a lunar project with the European Space agency essentially you take robots out to models and the robots mix with an additive the dust the red dust of models and the robots learning from the bone structure. In humans create a show with the dust which is mixed with the attitude which is over an inflatable structure. First is settlements would be built with the materials found on the surface of mounds transporting steel girders and concrete blocks into space obviously isnt an option. Well of course that is Science Fiction so the things that i dreamt about and read about. As a as a young person i now reality but i think the whole space thing is in a way perhaps like the tallest building in the medieval cathedrals the reach for the heavens i think its human nature i think is always striving trying to break boundaries trying to stretch the limits of of human ingenuity to defy gravity. Down house was all about visions of the future chancing new ground and trusting in technology. Todays world has Global Digital virtual and high tech colonizing other planets no longer sounds like such a crazy idea but do we really want to return to. Life in an underground cave as our feature. I think that the future of our planet is about opera. To 1st bring our own house in order and return our focus to the needs of the many perhaps bauhaus still has a lot to teach us. I think after 100 years the ideals of the gods are more relevant today than they were that we need design ingenuity to tackle the big issues of our time rapid urbanized nations Pollution Climate Change so essentially youre talking about the world out there on the streets parks bridges public transport all of that is designed for the bomb house was about design so it was a very optimistic a very utopian but down to earth view of design in the broadest sense. Id like to think that what we do today as aki texas designers has been this is about the quality of the life and a passionate belief that if you improve that quality the quality of design will improve the quality of your life. An idea that began with ballot house no one knows what tomorrows well will look like but design will shape it and says state. If the only constant is change then design is going to go on for as long as human beings inhabit the planet and beyond the planet. In terms of trying to get strong opinions clear positions from international perspectives. Last sundays election in hong kong may have been strictly local but the victory of the prodemocracy candidates sent a signal straight to Mainland China a wake up call for beijing find out onto the fight the battle in 90 minutes on the underground because. I was fishing when i arrived here i slept with 6 people in a room and learned finance it was hard i was fair. I even got white hair and that. The man in the german language hands me a lot this gives me and create a buzz and uniquely to enter the flavor you want to know their story in the minds of the fighting and reliable information for margaret. Was the speech of his life perhaps his best. His most difficult chancellor helmut kohl addresses the people of east germany shortly after the fall of the way. For the german. Journalist peter lim borg was at the scene. 30 years later looks back on the. President. Starts december 19th. W. Place. This is deja vu news live from berlin fridays for a future goes global get thousands of students in australia and japan have kicked off a day of rallies planned in cities around the world the call to action comes ahead of next weeks un climate scientists also coming up hong kong thanks President Trump for signing legislation supporting democracy in the territory but china condemns the United States for meddling in its Domestic Affairs and promises a firm countermeasures as maltese Prime Minister refuses to do a deal with a key source