A place of experimentation. Assume self said that before tackling the design of objects you basically have to put people in new clothing particularly during that period in the 19 tens and twentys there was a lot of talk about the new human but everybody meant Something Different by itself also reflected many different concepts and images of the human dimension of conflict here it was a time of upheaval on the one hand the human body was liberated but on the other the human was in slave to the rhythm of the machine technical progress of oak both nightmares and fascination no one could escape it. In the boat house stage. Transformed dunces into mechanical figures the triadic ballet is famous for its cost james. Painting and the stage performance intertwine. Weimar always had the space to experiment to risk new things i think thats one thing that still resonates today at the Bauhaus University which also works very experimentally of course it also works internationally but it is very Experimental Movement a change of venue the galloping i can hi im also has a permit chamberlain the exhibition is called from the lamp to the studio media artist him book is running a workshop he teaches Design Technology at the Bauhaus University experiments with electronics which he also uses for his own work. In the exhibition he shows a subversive program which allows people to pixelate their face using a special batch. He calls it the wishing machine. Its all about privacy for all those smartphone pictures of me or other people that turn up on facebook and theyre automatically tagged with face recognition and then my name is a common denominator if i just want to be myself for an evening without a bizarre photo of me turning up and then this will be a solution for the family of told. Christan gold is also an inventor he designs new surfaces for control devices at the moment hes testing materials with an chambers to create all kinds of inflatable shapes. I showed this to a group of textile engineers and they mediately said great this is just what we need. This could also be the hood for an inflatable car pools are. Put through here again suddenly during the production process points of reference appear that we didnt even think of at the beginning here from beginning. To get me i can hi im provide space to Research New Technologies in an artistic way think laterally and ask questions this is where the bow house lives on. Their. Own house created a number of modernist pioneers among them the 3 powerhouse direct is about a gropius 100 smile and nice fun to roll her but was the powerhouse just a boys club thats a myth there were also some outstanding women. What these women lacked was a kind of professional representation to find out standards for trade. Off the female artists consciously being forgotten is something that can also be observed in paintings culture in literature and in many many other areas a number. Of followers of these women more rediscovered when a political and social discourse began about womens role in society. But who were these modernist super women. The. 3 who left their mark on the bar house were writer editor and powerhouse 1st lady is a global. Furniture designer and powerhouse master levi. And textile artist out of us like many female pupils at the ball house she had to learn weaving though she wanted to study painting albus began studying at the powerhouse in 1922 though she never intended to become a textile artist she was a natural talent she was inspired by yourself her teacher and later her husband and the paintings of coldplay. Her work is now being rediscovered in europe. The 3rd and they really are one of a kind pieces you can instantly tell that here on the album as created something extremely special. And thats coupled with an incredibly interesting dialogue between the material and it is not a tool about being fashionable. And. Funny all of those works seamlessly interweave elements of Industrial Production handiwork and art in 1930 august became the 1st female to graduate from the Bauhaus School for her final project she developed a fabric for the trade union school and banal today a ball house landmark her material was used to cover walls of the School Auditorium plain and simple yet revolutionary it reflected light absorbed sound and was easy to clean. And the i was on the other us develop this text down after much consideration and research she used a material that had only been on the market for a few years cellophane today we know it from Food Packaging them from then after the nazis seized power in 1933 being jewish she and her husband fled to the us there she belonged to the artistic often god and created experimented with talk and wrote about the art of weaving today her patterns and designs are enjoying a renaissance only out of us is finally getting the recognition she deserves like other forgotten dollhouse artists played with and many of them were recognized during that time. As quickly as the respect of their colleagues both male and female and a lot of people also fell into obscurity during the years of political dictatorship and persecution here in germany. These forgotten powerhouse women are now being celebrated the new books like easing. The wife of the us contributed to the interior design of the directors house and she was a new kind of woman the perfect heroine for a novel. In the north these women lived in a new era they could vote and be elected they could do jobs traditionally done by men there was a feeling of freedom that they could do anything smoothly he. These young wild free spirited and strong pioneers dared to take on a new role. The daughter of an upper class family becoming a working woman unheard of back that is a goal to be a structured in a new lifestyle. Something said 1st the whole self concept of women working outside the home was one that had to be learned. Maybe thats what made it easier so rebellious and revolutionary. She modernized Household Economics to save the women of the future time which they could then devote to that professional activities. Suitable. For years christiane along a has been conducting research on another modernist career woman leader she was already a key figure in the art scene when she became a ball house master and head of the schools interior Design Workshop in 1932. When her partner architect miss fond of war built this house in berlin she designed the furniture. Lehis also worked with him on the villa also include no trace of her work remains why he was there. Unfortunately you know during my research i realized it simply couldnt be done because she was female nowadays we might call any high shes superwoman hall and she was incredibly well organized communicative and very assertive even with men yet those that still stuck out the fact that shes been forgotten can be attributed solely to me. But also to the male dominated writing of history that was looking for classic heroes who warns of. Heroes like nice wonder whore who designed the german pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in barcelona together with the league like in fact she was the pavilions artistic director and its doubtful whether hes fond of our designs furniture on his own. So who really created this design classic. Im on top its an interesting question because this is an iconic piece of furniture the day bed. But there are many indications that many high created it. Is interest 1st published under her name in 1930 to the site and the only drawing of this day bed that exists is also by her from around 1905 and its the anyone from the prewar period of the falklands side as early as 1949 new yorks museum of modern art devoted a solo show to any all of us textile art though outside the United States shes still relatively unknown. But these are copious is now a novel heroine but in real life she was an editor organizer and equal partner for the bell house founder. And clearly advice the few surviving documents show that milly ghosh was a great designer and far ahead of her talk but starting in 1933 when the nazis came to power ice wasnt so choosy about who she worked for which she wasnt the only one. When the nazis took over a 930. 00 story they. Down the bow house controversially some leading bell houseless continued they would under hitler. To each his own im a cop sign at the nazi concentration camp and book in part. Created by inmate and former boss pupil funded alledge it uses the unmistakable powerhouse typeface despite the fact that the nazi regime denounced the school for its degenerate art and even pressured its leadership into closing the ball house in berlin often setting up in the official propaganda they rejected the bow has entirely it was considered to be bolshevist jewish monk says and everything the nazis deemed negative in banking is not and. What an officially that stance wasnt as clear the nazis saw the typical bile house functionality as a sign of progress and welcomed its new objectivity. And the artists how did the often guard of the bauhaus respond after 933. 00. To take up a bio one of the most influential boss teachers he create a Graphic Design on the universal typeface which became signatures of the ball house. But starting in 1933 by a began to create nazi propaganda design in catalogues and exhibitions which celebrated the ideology of racist doctrines of the 3rd reich. A view suv they were a film about how people listen teaches he remained and were eager to continue receiving commissions in germany ones who then exhibited a little of the battle houses reformist spirit and Ethical Principles to some coins its a. Nice funda hold it was no exception in 1934 he joined gobos chamber of culture supported hitler and contributed to nazi exhibitions he just wanted to build regardless for who. Enticed. By new commissions he emigrated to the United States in 1930 yet there he designed iconic structures like the seagram building in new york. Miss fonda whole became a star architect his pandering to the nazis was soon forgotten and hasnt tarnished the baja structure taishan to this day still theres little reason to place the bauhaus on a moral pedestal. Some of the val house teaches in students who went into exile became successful in the us our house became internationally famous but it was never a purely german phenomenon teachers and students came from all over the world areas sharon had experience life on a kibbutz and palestine and brought those ideas with him to death sound later he returned to the middle east and built a legendary white city in tel aviv and a Pioneering University in nigeria. Ready the family of university in the family in the southwest of nigeria. Ready ready ready area share on this University Campus is an open and airy. Tailored to the hot climate and they are ruber culture when he tends to university became the symbols of the fledgling democracy really can you describe was a very important for the jury affording the jews because it was. Initiated exactly maybe 60 the movement of independence of nigeria from the british. Rule. So basically for them its the 1st action in the jury and university and it stands for a protest against the picture back then modernism was progressive and today 3 f. Ret aims to find out in his film moving away. If. It was. Used to. Be a. It is easier to. Remember seats open screwed to do this it is there are far worse than far for people numeracy to be rethought through these arts prompts. These markers sir cried spritz around 200 kilometers to the south is lagos. Nigeria is largest city is constantly changing. Like the representatives of contemporary ballet houses. Asks how do we want to live now and in the future she thinks the revolutionary ideas of a century ago are still relevant today. When we had monism comment in the years of any post colonialism that the architects that came of the day will modernise and not the architecture that has really formed the structure of the city of lagos on the early modernism of the fortys fiftys and sixtys still today employed dr satcher lagos is expanding at a breathtaking pace its africas 2nd largest city under one of the worlds most densely populated somewhere between colonialism and modernism nigerian architects are creating that own design land which. Was considered as african tenets of the within the rule and i am not necessarily mean need to be realistic it is more appropriately for the city that we live in now we have to face the fact that in the city of some people say 80000000 some people say 22 we need to live in smaller and smaller spaces nanki peninsula is an ultra modern district of lagos he is the architect is constructing minimalist Housing Units similar to ones built around the globe. A new architecture for new life styles functional economic and compact. So this is a start and 2 bedroom apartment so its ok. Planchet its really about i think efficient living. Apartments for nigerias growing middle class who are increasingly cosmopolitan. We always need to reflect on. On how living in a city is evolving and changing i mean the whole world has changed the demographic is changing how people live the family unit is being redefined and we need to make sure that we produce an architecture that reflects that and thats what the boss does back at the University Campus in. Its buildings were constructed in the 1960 s. And seventys open on all sides they function like Energy Efficient safe houses and coolum sounds every inch of space is used efficiently architect ariel sharon