Modern architecture between crafts, industrialization and artistic individuality:
the case of the Bauhaus and its forerunner the Werkbund
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Time: Thursday, 8. August 2019, 13:30 – 16:00
Place: Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Luegetenstrasse 11, 8840 Einsiedeln
Language: English
Cost: SCAA Members free, non-members CHF 20.-, Students CHF 10.-
RSVP: info@scaa.ch (Mrs. Ling Chen)
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Program:
13:30 – 15:00 Workshop Reviews and Presentations
Lead by Prof. Werner Oechslin
❊ Classic and History
Prof. FENG Jiang (South China University of Technology)
The Houses with Balcony Access in Dessau
Prof. Yao Donghui (Zhejiang University of Technology)
‘Das Englische Haus’:The book shaping German modern architectural kulturbild
❊ Teaching Models
Dr. Jiang Jiawei (Tongji University)
From Pictorial Illusion to Three Dimensions: A Study of Josef Albers’ mural Paintings in collaboration with Architect King-Lui u
Prof. Qian Feng (Tongji University)
Johannes Itten and his Teaching at Bauhaus
Dr. Wang Yulin (Tongji University)
The Visualized Bauhaus: A Case Study on László Moholy-Nagy’s Vorkurs
❊ General Topics
Dr. Lu Tan (Tongji University)
Disconnected Space: Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of History in the “Ruins of the Bourgeoisie”.
Prof. Qing Feng (Tsinghua University)
Functionalism and Teleology
❊ Pre-modernism
Prof. Lu Yongyi (Tongji University)
Back to the Original: from primitive hut to learning by doing
❊ Italian and Chicago
Prof. XU Haohao (South China University of Technology)
The Modernism in Italy between Critical Rationalism and Interpretivism
Prof. Yang Jing (Tianjin University)
Chicago Tribune Competition and Skyscraper in Glass and Iron: the research of the unbuilt skyscraper project of Bauhaus
15:00 Keynote lecture by Prof. Laurent Stalder, director of the gta Institute, ETH Zurich
16:00 Apéro