Anthony Fontenot Explores Bauhaus Design and the Work of Director Hannes Meyer
笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Anthony Fontenot was recently published in a new book on聽Hannes Meyer. Published in German, the book by聽Philipp Oswalt, ed.,聽Hannes Meyers Bauhauslehre聽鈥� Von Dessau nach Mexiko聽(Birkh盲user Verlag, 2018) includes Fontenot鈥檚 chapter titled 鈥淪treit um die Bauhauskonzeption: Hannes Meyer gegen L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy鈥� (English translation: 鈥淭he Battle Over Bauhaus Design: Hannes Meyer Versus L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy鈥�) which explores the contentious relationship between Meyer and L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy. The chapter was based on a lecture that Anthony gave at the international at the University of Kassel, School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture in March 2018.
Book Cover: Hannes Meyers Bauhauslehre聽鈥� Von Dessau nach Mexiko
The symposium engaged with the pedagogical concept and praxis of Hannes Meyer, which he developed and subsequently pursued as a teacher and director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1927 to 1930. As the organizers stated, “Hannes Meyer significantly altered and restructured the educational programme of the Bauhaus, established by Walter Gropius and the masters he appointed (1919鈥娾�撯��1927鈥�/鈥�28). Not only did he found the architecture department at the behest of Gropius and introduce scientific studies into the design process. In the lessons, he also successfully realized construction projects with the students (the Houses with Balcony Access, the Nolden House) and industrial production projects (the Kandem lamps and Bauhaus wallpapers with the Rasch Brothers & Co.). By appointing new teachers he founded the urban planning department (Hilberseimer) and the photography workshop (Peterhans) and introduced important new scientific fields into the teaching by means of guest lectures.”