Grassimesse Leipzig 2024 Compact: vondingen
...The latter being the case with Berlin based manufacturer vondingen a...
...The latter being the case with Berlin based manufacturer vondingen a...
...Our five locations for a party of the spirit, intellect, soul and for improving your understanding of the world material and immaterial around you in October 2024 can be found in Brussels, New York, Hornu, Berlin, and, once the beer tents have been packed away for another year, Munich... be "Design for Children" at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, Germany There is an argument to be made that 'childhood' as it is popularly understood today is a relatively novel phenomenon; that while all adults were without question once children, not all went through a childhood as understood in the contemporary sense...
...With the exhibition Profitopolis or the Condition of the City the Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge, Berlin, reflect on the arguments of 1971 in the 2024 we became, on the paths from then to now, on the role of the Deutsche Werkbund then, since and now, and thereby enable space for reflections and considerations on not only why our contemporary cities are as they are, but possible ways forward in context of our cities and those who inhabit them... Or rather a framework for the exhibitions Profitopolis or the Condition of the City, for it is, they are, very much two presentations in one: the first a brief tour through the (hi)story of urban and spatial planning in Germany since the formation of the Deutsche Werkbund in 1907, a formation, as oft noted in these dispatches, initiated by a coalition, an amalgamation, of architects, designers and manufacturers as a response to the poor quality, and even poorer global reputation, of German industrial production of the period, a period when Made in Germany was an insult; a tour that through making stops at moments either undertaken by the Werkbund, by leading Werkbundler or in context of the positions of the Werkbund, such as, for example, the 1909 Hellerau garden city, the 1927 Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart, the post 1939-45 War plans for rebuilding Berlin, or the large scale 1960s/70s high-rise housing estates Märkische Viertel in West-Berlin and Fennpfuhl in Ost-Berlin, develops an argument that whatever else the Deutsche Werkbund is and was since 1907 it was always about responding to social realities and questions of the built environment and of individuals and society in that built environment...
...Our recommended meaningful shady retreats in summer 2024 can be found in Ulm, Copenhagen, Karlsruhe, Bloomfield Hills and Berlin... org "Lina Bo Bardi – The Poetry of Concrete" at the Museum für Architekturzeichnung, Berlin, Germany Born in 1941 Achillina Bo studied architecture in her native Rome before moving to Milan where, amongst other stations, she spent time in the office of Gio Ponti, including serving on the editorial team of the influential architecture and design magazine Domus, before in 1946, and following her marriage, the now, Lina Bo Bardi emigrated with her new husband Pietro Maria Bardi, to Brazil where the more interesting part of her career was played out...
...Our 6 recommendations for new exhibitions opening in May 2024, our starting points for May 2024, take us all to Berlin, Prague, Jyväskylä, Milan, Brussels and Weimar... Or the Condition of the City" at the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge, Berlin, Germany Following their enforced relocation, a relocation enforced by the purchase of the building they called home by an anonymous investor group, a building, perhaps not unrelatedely, in a gentrification ready corner of Kreuzberg, the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge, Berlin, reopen in their new home, or at least reopen their new temporary exhibition space, the new permanent exhibition is due to open in November, with an exhibition that unquestionably, and joyously so, deliciously so, is a response to that enforced relocation...
...USM Haller A Fritz; A Ball; A System Within the diaries of Heidi, those central documents in the re-telling of the earliest (hi)story of the contemporary Switzerland, it is recorded that one of the oldest examples of vernacular Swiss furniture is the modular metal storage system of the Usm...
Switzerland A Confoederatio; A Range; A Context For a great many centuries the lands of the contemporary Switzerland were unknown, locked as they were behind and between the towering, daunting, peaks of the Toblerone cordillera; but then a fearless explorer...