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with. the w. . you know what team if polish there if they think that. free thinking. honest revolutionary validate credit card fast. german that is about house. after 100 years the ideals of the bombs are more relevant today than they were just a holes for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future. if you don't how will we learn. to house and back the bell house influence is everywhere. oh how certain to formulate a language of design that was universal. alice in that everything has an ideal high

it's an ideal size and that's what optimize its utility but not you know they want this kind of push to go wherever you're well aware with your design everywhere where 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 bauhaus doctrine around the world. what became of the battle has utopia and the principle that

good design can improve people's lives. in the early 1960 s. vantage all 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 knowing come family. 30 years after the closure of the bell house the project sought to put the school's vision into action a better life for many people over it moving to the copier starts with a dream they are as sure lurcher shows them one minute on a huge apartment with a bathroom and everything's all running out water unbelievable i still love the cold cream. your time vice beca and hands scaled meat moved into the gulf

as soon as it was completed. until 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 is to short also moved here in 1006. $107.00 or $29.00 applications for apartments i 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 coast the guy in the late 1950 s. and early 1960 s. solutions to the housing crisis became more ambitious the whole most on belonged.

to 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 that many tenement blocks in berlin had been torn down to make the apartments in the front lyta and area new housing projects was to be built in the city's green outskirts to force their own goal saw up to 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 berlin wall dividing the city into and exacerbating the housing shortage. copious originally planned to

run. dench old 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. west. 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 these by this point vital p.s. had long been living in the us but. didn't have much time. before you could only be reached by far. knowing that he paid a visit maybe 3 times a year or so. he was never in charge of the project. and 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 10 years 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 the. end 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 utah vice beca and tan scale meat it was home. i live by and people were happy here and didn't understand what all the bad headlines were about we didn't see it like hurt at all where lived here with our children and we liked it as sure . as a day go ph that 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 america's major cities there's a lot of room for improvement in housing and infrastructure. many urban planners that would agree with the bauhaus principle that architects bat as social

responsibility. is still only. mostly our work as 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. plane. traffic clogs the streets unschooling for veils define the cityscape. it's 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 384 metres up the hillside now the 140000 residents of community tressa one of the city's poorest neighborhoods no

longer need to make the climb by foot. jayco because stan a 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 tours of the area's best graffiti. in the past few visitors would have dead to venture into comune that reputed to be the most dangerous neighborhood of what's often called the world's most dangerous city. there's more to the many friends of mine lost their lives many neighbors lots of

people just disappear it happened a lot around here over the school. improving people's lives this was the vision of bow house today that vision also encompasses infrastructure projects like these help don't escalate his. forces but he's got a escalators 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. mother of 3 for more than 30 families with small shops live near the escalators so thanks to the escalators local businesses are doing much better and better because someone you know that obviously loves every bit of it. well that goes 00000000 i thought oh yeah it's them real. these days consuelo gussie is shop is trying.

times used to be tough. right getting around used to be much harder. than summer it was very hard terrible music is in the roads weren't paved. no no they weren't we had streets of mud you out it would be a mud. but there were lots of houses here back then weren't there. yes many will make a voyage i wouldn't have ones 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 yeah. the escalators and the cable cars on the other side of the city that connected to the fed nameless have attracted international attention. into sounds

inserting many misnamed the world's most innovative city. to tell us who that big hasn't. sure it's a beautiful city very photogenic very friendly but there is more than one narrative of what's happened here. 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 rebranded itself. in doing so it hasn't 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 . 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 barrel house as early as the 1920 s. . and then in 1039 former bow house director harness meyer received an invitation. he became head of the new institute for urban planning in mexico city. 7500 mile there aren't many buildings by meyer he spent 10 years in mexico but we don't have a single one. nevertheless harness my influence an entire generation of mexican architects say it will negatively influence them as i can say with absolute certainty that bell has had a huge influence on many mexican architects who stuck with the mario party for example. in may he. has been

a major influence on me i'm sure that hundreds meyer had a big effect on him. but it's fun we got an. architect there bilbao is interested in social housing. less doesn't the levee. 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 a house that could be extended to become larger than 43 square meters because that's just too small but i mean we wanted a flexible design that could respond to different needs and climate conditions that's one that's expandable he said must see what that means but. she's designed

a flexible prototype. for a house that can be easily reproduced much like. 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 ballot house tatiana 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 that with. no premier that i believe we did. in the 4th to me the most is a vision of the future it demonstrated what architects can do to help people in their lives. so they will mask it and went back that it's in the receiver that identify most with the movement. in miami and. how this maya spent 10 years in mexico. at a time when it's left wing government was introducing sweeping social reforms. to this have not is that the new york attacks here insisted that architecture was an art form. and nobody and. there were resistant to harness myra's hardly rationalist approach. so what did meyer accomplish for

this a project he planned to build units on every corner. that's your list yes laughs we don't have a single building here in mexico city but he actually designed all stories they've made you but we do have many buildings that are a testament to his influence in syria. that. we may never know. film about house teaches yosef and any arbors also helped bell house ideas spread across latin and south america. the couple traveled extensively through mexico cuba peru and chile frequently a guest teaching. on the album as fell in love with mexican weaving techniques and traditional south american textiles back at black mountain college she passed on to her students what she didn't. mexican artista more munoz sites on the albums

textiles and prince as a major influence on her work on the yucatan peninsula she founded tech 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. in some project localness 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 and all creativity and technology they can look here. at the. business side on all the cases they're making here this panel and the electrical sombrero hat it all works with rechargeable batteries but they never got a godless. silence 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. not to but that it's really useful at nights 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 eyes it's very useful. for more encourages the women to feel proud of their skills and to find creative ways of using them. this is the. best 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 are the basic principles of engineering even if you don't realize it. look to see if it's a great advantage for me. what i've learned and made will help me in the future with. this in working with new materials and products is providing these women with a new life really hurt. or 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 you know going to most technology can be used to ensure that all your fashion skills are forgotten that 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 bauhaus artist as they identify as any other bears when any 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 pasture grass shrugs eucalyptus and shoot them implement the illicit she'd leave them together with industrial materials just as we did with you cuttack pick. every day design that's a hybrid of handmade and high tech is this the utopian vision of the ballot how

soon action the 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 and. the melamine to. learn from them really you don't see the influence of an actual product any more of those a lot of time is 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. your day laws and signals policy is always the starting point. is a. bow house 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 texture 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. 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 shoes for students to gather in. the skylights create a play of light and shade. just like you to call it a 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 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 heights. of. perspective in doing office decent. today's society calls for a new approach is to learning. which architecture can help consolidate. density cornish inform the architectural forms of the building and clearly have a structural aesthetic and artistic value citizen 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 it's also a source of inspiration as i'm bored it does inspire the year. that i. am.

here 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 post. 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 powerhouse taking up the mantle from the german school. today it focuses on what's called human centered design an approach that has little to do with architecture or furniture. instead it seeks to shake 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 the 2000000 people to a city just hovering around 600000 we've done a lot of work worth 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 is 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 product 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 are food in their clobbered at home we provide all those things these people not only work here 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 now. that it wasn't he thought. was. and then goes off to the stores and feeds people and this is the church i love i love what i do. it. is like white long start from the seed and in the middle people this is beautiful. gary was saying our recovery park is more than a job creation scheme for the socially and economically disadvantaged the enterprise's 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 foods i also want to be known as a social impact so that. the social impact of architecture is also

a central concern of birdland based architects juergen my aha his experimental utopias push the boundaries of what architecture can do often transgressing them. 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. real for example we build something with where we needed timber and probably your thing coating that's now the biggest wood construction in the world like. 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 ha has been called germany's greatest architectural hope since ballot house his designs would have been technologically unfeasible in balham days using 3 d. modeling he can incorporate prefabricated elements without full fitting as that take value. he's currently working on a building for a university in berlin. we have my desk up there our building is very sculptural and made of in for a lightweight concrete it contains from glass gravel and clay aggregates to improve the concrete insulation capacity of the press and so we'll have a fossil free for some without folly styrene and additional insulation. it will be

a very low maintenance building their bathrooms are most polls. at the ballot house gropius also experimented with new forms and materials. if he was still designing buildings perhaps they would look like you're going my own hoss sculptural but also practical. the battle house is a thing of the past. as is the flurry of reconstruction and the abundance that marks 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 what is now house was very interested in sustainability in being economical with resources and materials we shouldn't forget that this was an era of rampant poverty honestly our armament site. that house never had any funds and the students had to be very thoughtful with the materials they worked with. the. thinking small that's at the heart of a social experiment underway on the grounds of the archives in berlin the tiny house university. the projects initiate is german architect. the holes for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future at a time when the system was changing from a monarchy to a democracy. back then no one knew exactly what democracy would look like with

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 a balcony 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 their homes and this is where people can experiment fashion a 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. but that's where the idea of the tiny house comes in one which i find very charming and 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.

around here. this makes a 6.4 square metres line that's not much at all but when you look around it feels generous here he's a there are really high windows and the ceilings are 3.6 metres high. is it time we re-evaluated 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. this 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 then 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. the smell of 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 won't be solved on the campsite of the cities 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 a 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 lee to get to mars the moon would be the stopping point through the moon makes mars possible. said 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 air craft. lunar travel. the mars project with grew out of a loon a project with the european space agency essentially you take the 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 of humans create a show with the dust which is mixed with the attitude which is over an inflatable structure. does settlement would be built with the materials found on the surface of mounds 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. bounce house was all about visions of the future chancing new ground and trusting in technology. today's world disclosure bill digital virtual and high tech colonizing other planets now youngest 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 the future of our planet is about our plan. to 1st bring already 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 our time rapid urbanize nations pollution climate change so essentially you're 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. i'd like to think that what we do today as out to 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 ballot house no one knows what tomorrow's well it's will look like but design will shape it and sustain it. if the only constant is change and design is going to go on for as long as human beings inhabit the planet and be on the planet.

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