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you know what teeth holistic aesthetic that. freethinking. honest there's a new vite credit card fast. sherman that is about house. after 100 years the ideals of the bomb house are more relevant today than they were than the spa holes for 100 years ago about house re-imagined the future of the event how will we learn. something else in fact the bell house influence is everywhere. oh how setanta formulate a language of design that was universal. as the honest thing is that everything has an ideal heights and ideal size and that's what optimize is its utility but not in . they want this kind of place to go where you are properly with your design

everywhere when you're an artist. bell 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 dance 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 people's 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 low income families. 30 years after the closure of the bauhaus the project sought to put the school's vision into action a better life for many people over moving to the copious statue is a dream there are cameras sure luncher shows them one another on a huge apartment with a bathroom and everything's all running out water unbelievable i still love the cold beer stand. your turn vice beca and hand scale meat moved into the coal ph that as soon as it was completed. thank you i got married in 1959 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 used to shine also moved here in 1900. 29 applications for apartments you got for offers including this place for you i didn't have a car but i knew there was an underground start here so i took the offer here. in 50 gulf news sites to go in the late 1950 s. and early 1960 s. solutions to the housing crisis became more ambitious the whole most on the long. happiness and his architecture firm tech the architects collaborative were tasked with drawing up a master plan of gibbet and i must stop. even before the war the rear

courtyard buildings of many tenement blocks in berlin had been torn down to make the apartments in the front lyta area new housing projects were to be built in the city's green outskirts to forge their own goal saw shocked launch off the idea of huge urban estates had already been explored on paper as a utopian vision by architects in the 1920 stop by to talk. p.s. his vision of an urban utopia was defeated by circumstances beyond his control in 1961 communist east germany built the bell in wall dividing the city into and exacerbating the housing shortage. called p.s. originally planned residential blocks with 14500 apartments and a maximum of 14 floors in the end there were 19000 apartments. and up to 30 floors

. gropius his original vision ended up massively compromised. the best. so he didn't want just patches of green he wanted a landscape with green flowing spaces between the buildings and in the. in his vision nature wasn't contained it was an intake all part of the new york state and was from this by this point vital p.s. had long been living in the us because his quantum on your. didn't have much time. for you could only be reached by phone call my oh no no he paid a visit maybe 3 times a year so. he was never in charge of the projects one year and it was more of a consultant not the godfather of the. gropius came to berlin when the foundation stone was laid. but he wasn't involved with the

construction and there was nothing he could do about the final result all people's houses with him. did everything in his power to prevent his name being attached to the project he was deeply unhappy about it there is no doubt about it at that. 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. or ph that frequently hit the headlines as a crime hotspot. but to use her advice becca and tan scale to meet her it was home. i love i'm peaceful or happy here and i didn't understand what all the bad headlines were

about we didn't see it like hurt at all we lived here with our children and we liked it as a shared. today gopi a show that is once again popular with families the area is getting screw stuff 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 america's major cities there's 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. is still only. our work has architects and urban planners is about people. people

matter to carolinas. and urban planner from meddling in colombia a city where infrastructure problems have long loomed large. traffic cloaks the streets and spawning for bail as defined the city scape. it's nearly impossible for buses to pass through these narrow steep streets. odd but then the city has an idea. today 6 outdoor escalators extend 384 meters up the hill side now the 140000 residents of community one of the city's poorest neighborhoods no longer need to make the climb by foot. jayco because

donna is well aware of how the escalators have affected the district. i'm 33 and i've 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 area's best graffiti. in the past few visitors would have dead to venture into commune that reputed to be the most dangerous neighborhood of what's often called the world's most dangerous city. in. the city. like there's more to many friends of mine lost their lives many neighbors lots of people just disappeared it happened a lot around here but i don't. improving people's minds this was the

vision of bow house today that nation also encompasses infrastructure projects like these help don't escalate. because there's no money for this guy he has belabors themselves on even the point the point is what they've been lifting people in the sense of community. they've created a sense of belonging happiness and pride in the neighborhood. market 3 for 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 love it obviously loves it it would. follow that goes 000-0000 i thought oh yes they're real. these days consuelo gussie is shop is trying. times used to be tough. right getting around used to be much harder.

than some other it was very hard terrible. these are the roads weren't paved. no no they weren't we had streets of mud repeal of mud that's right but there were lots of houses here back then weren't there. these days yes many will make a voyage and my goodness once that's 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 connected to the famous have attracted international attention. in 2013 many misnamed the world's most innovative city. can't dana see that it doesn't. sure it's

a beautiful city very photogenic very friendly but there is more than one narrative of what's 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 no mark. in doing so it hasn't always put its residents needs front and center a further cable car line is under development. this together with other infrastructure projects has put some 600 families at risk of losing their homes. but it is 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 bow house director hunted smiler received an invitation. he became head of the new institute for urban planning in mexico city. 7400 my there aren't many buildings by meyer he spent 10 years in mexico but we don't have a single one. nevertheless one as my influence an entire generation of mexican architects. influenced him as i can say with absolute certainty that bell has had a huge influence on many mexican architects who still go to the mario party for example . in may he will call them my dear bunny and palin has been a major influence on me i'm sure that hundreds meyer had a big effect on him and his letters from we have no. architect

tatiana bilbao is interested in social housing. less there's a levy in there but they're not saying situation in mexico is very difficult there's 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. i'm interested in the structure and my idea was to design the structure for the homes that could be extended to become larger than 43 square meters because that's just too small. to meet that we wanted a flexible design that could respond to different needs and climate conditions that's one that's expandable. said unless let's see what that means but. she's designed a flexible prototype for a. house that can be easily reproduced much like. gang houses indes out it's

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 bell house bill dallas well designed homes are a progressive and creative solution to the country's housing shortage. they were there for a matter. maybe it's naive entering the idea that architects have the potential to make a difference with. no premier but i believe we did. to

me the most is a vision of the future they demonstrated what architects can do to help people in their thoughts so they will mask it and that it's in that respect that identify most with the movement. in miami and. spent 10 years in mexico. at a time when it's left wing government was introducing sweeping social reforms. to this is not a skill level that the new york attorney cheer insisted that architecture was an art form. nobody and. they were resistant to harness meyer's hardly a rationalist approach. so. what did miner accomplish work is a project he planned to build units on every corner of the us you remember this for

10 years laughs we don't have a single building here in mexico city already actually designed all stories that made you but we do have many buildings that are a testament to his influence rooms. to me you know. film about house teaches yosef and annie ibos also helped belle house ideas spread across latin and south america. the couple traveled extensively through mexico cuba peru and chile frequently guest teaching. on the albums 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'd learned. 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 tech a social project for my own women that marries tech and tradition. these

seamstresses used to work in a textiles factory that closed down. they've now found new ways to use their skills. as some project localness beautiful that meant the project as collaborative and participatory the basic game is to apply the do it yourself spirit to traditional crafting and the maker movement close him a gap between artists and all creativity and technology. the. business side on all the cases they're making here this panel and the electrical sombrero hat it only works with rechargeable batteries but they never got a godless. so i left 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 the solar panel has charged for about 5 hours during the daytime it can provide enough light for 2 nights. but not about that it's really useful at night when it's pitch dark in my village. it's on all night and it's so useful when i need to go to the toilet or hear a strange noise. it's a bright and i look at it's very useful. this is more encourages the women to feel proud of their skills and to find creative ways of using them. both at the pentagon. but at the spa so how does your husband feel about you understanding how solar power and l.e.d.s. work and what a battery is what you've learned to the basic principles of engineering even if you don't realize it. look at it and see if it's

a great advantage for me what i've learned and maybe that will help me in the future with. this in working with new materials and products is providing these women with a new life we have. is that. we're thinking of making new products and taking them to market so people can buy them have. these days not much traditional hedican is grown in the yucatan region the market is dominated by imported synthetic fiber from china. see not going to most technology can be used to ensure that old fashioned skills are forgotten it can help keep your craft and a traditional lives so why not use it. more munoz's 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 annie as they identify as any other bears. and the others 1st arrived at black mountain college she had to adjust to the circumstances that there were few materials to work with for example so she began using natural materials like pasture grass shrugs eucalyptus and shoot them in them at the earliest she'd leave them together with industrial materials just as we did with you cuttack big not. every day design that's a hybrid of handmade and high tech is this the utopian vision of the bow house in action both houses the press and there's 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 this little social experiment it may be small scale but it's exactly what they were aiming for when they established the bauhaus house. the moment the yearly via lying through his whole family you don't see the influence of an actual product any more of those a lot of times past. 100 years that's a long time. see you but it's philosophy using trends in the way designers are taught and trained in the us your love for the most you're the last and seeing of all the grass 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 school's 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 own bonded . out 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 knishes for students to gather in. the skylights create a play of light and shade. just like you take your concept there are several key factors in the architectural concept that's very important to us as a school is that it expresses how the separate structures form an ensemble a community connected by the courtyard the roof. knowledge classroom windows overlook the surrounding landscape and i know. we are very fortunate to have such a beautiful natural environment the greenery colors it creates a peace and quiet a sense of longevity all of which is conducive to learning the lesson height. of. perspective in the sticks and. today's society calls for

a new approach is to learning. which architecture can help consolidate. density i think cornish inform the architectural forms of the building and clearly have a structural aesthetic and artistic value to it isn't the other 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 it's also a source of inspiration as i'm bored it does inspire the year. was. 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 it's one that still being posed. here for example. she cargo birthplace of the skyscraper a city that's 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 what's called human centered design and approach that has little to do with architecture or furniture. instead it seeks to shape people's 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. lease. detroit has lost 2 thirds of its population so we've gone from a city of course for 2000000 people to a city just hovering around 600000 we've 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 yankee's a former 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. it's 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 literacy issues homelessness issues chronic on employment 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 actually or food in their clabbered 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 for kevin harrison is training as

a god not. the right part he felt. was. and then goes off to stores and feeds people the next is beautiful i love i love what i do. it really is like like long start from the seed in the last with people this is beautiful. to gary was saying our recovery park is more than a job creation scheme for the socially and economically disadvantaged the enterprises urban farm currently supplies $133.00 restaurants he hopes that recovery park will one day be the biggest urban agriculture business in the u.s. i still want to be the motor city because that's given us a worldwide brand but i also want to be known as a food so you 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 for all. the i think today is confronted with a challenge design planning has to be innovative on several fronts. first 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 are probably your thing coating that's now the biggest wood construction in the world. 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 surveils old course.

yogen maya high has been called germany's greatest architectural hope since about house his designs would have been technologically unfeasible in ballad house days using 3 d. modeling he can incorporate prefabricated elements without full fitting aesthetic value. he's currently working on a building for a university in berlin. there 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 of the press or so we'll have a fossil free for some without polystyrene and additional insulation. it will be a very low maintenance building their bottoms are most holes. at the balham. also experimented with new forms and materials. if he was

still designing buildings perhaps they would look like you're going my a hoss sculptural but also practical. the bellhousing era is a thing of the past. as is the flurry of reconstruction and the abundance that mops the post-war years in the west. todays design experts must address the explosion of urban populations and the shortage of housing in times of dwindling resources. across was well house was very interested in sustainability in being economical with resources and materials but we shouldn't forget that this was an era of

rampant poverty and asli are armed with cites. the house never had any funds and the students had to be very thoughtful with the materials they worked with the leaked. thinking small that's at the heart of a social experiment underway on the grounds of the bow house archive in berlin the tiny house university. the projects initiated is german architect. for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future i don't time when the system was changing from a monarchy to a democracy. back then no one knew exactly what democracy would look like what he thought the 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 their homes and this is where people can experiment fashion the question they'll be investigating is how can we revolutionize architecture and learning and it starts with small questions for example how can we use the base without owning it or. to think that that's where the idea of the tiny house comes then one which i find very charming from a tiny house on wheels if it's on wheels and has a number plate it has the legal status of a car and a car doesn't need its own piece of land out. here and all this cut in my system base is 6.4 square metres 9 that's not much at

all but when you look around it feels generous here he's 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. or in tears there is the bathroom. yes this is a toilet a composting toilet and this is the shower. 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 don't 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 we're working for the good of society looking for answers to urgent problems such as hunger access to water energy migration those will be solved on a campsite that is of. the world's population is expected to reach 10000000000 by 2050 new living solutions are urgently called for. the idea that we need to own as much as possible is very very deep inside us sell sell what want don't ask questions we've 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 don't consume construct that's my motto.

when every inch of the earth has been built on well we need to find a new planet to colonize. interesting really to get to mars the moon would be the stopping point so the moon makes mars possible. sir norman foster one of the world's leading architects has already started exploring new frontiers. i've always been fascinated by space by flight by aircraft. travel. lamar's project with grew out of a luna 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 my office and the robots learning from the bone structure. and humans create a show with the dust which is mixed with the attitude which is over an inflatable structure. substance settlement would be built with the materials found on the surface of mas transporting steel girders and concrete blocks into space obviously isn't 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 are now reality but i think the whole space thing is in a way perhaps like the tallest building in the medieval cathedral the reach for the heavens i think it's human nature i think it's always striving trying to break

boundaries trying to stretch the limits of of human ingenuity to defy gravity. about house was all about visions of the future chancing new ground and trusting in technology. today's well days 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 off each other. i think that the future of our planet is about our plan. 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 boss are more relevant today than they were that we need design

ingenuity to tackle the big issues of odd time rapid urbanize ation pollution climate change so essentially you're talking about the world out there our streets parks bridges public transport all of that is design 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. i'd like to think that what we do today as aki texas designers has been this is about the quality of the life and the passionate belief that if you improve that quality the quality of design will improve the quality of your life.

an idea that began with ballard house no one knows what tomorrow's well it's will not like but design will shake it and sustain it. if the only constant is change then design is going to go on for as long as human beings inhabit the planet and be on the planet.

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