Esoteric Survey

In May I spent some time in Europe. I saw a lot of castles, but this was my favorite.    Bauhaus at Dessau was constructed in 1925-26. It was designed by the founder of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius and was commissioned and paid for by the city of Dessau.  Bauhaus, shortly after completion. Source: © Lucia Moholy Estate via 99 Percent Invisible For some context of the time period, check out the buildings in the distance. Source: Bauhaus It still operates as a school. There's also a museum and café. The dorms where  junior masters and promising students lived and worked. It's where Marcel Breuer, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Franz Ehrlich, Marianne Brandt, and Anni Albers slept. It is also where a much less important design geek spent the night. I was able to call Bauhaus home for a night. It was so special. Gropius handles are everywhere. In bed at Bauhaus. László Moholy-Nagy...

Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 Hammer museum Black Mountain College (BMC) was an experimental school located in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It opened in 1933 and was owned by the faculty. Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Buckminister Fuller, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, and Xanti Schawinsky is just a partial list of the faculty. Ruth Asawa, Kenneth Noland, John Chamberlain, Cy Twombly, and Robert Rauschenberg were all associated with the school. BMC closed in 1957. Source:  Western Regional Archives, States Archives of North Carolina Josef Albers painting and a desk he designed for the college Anni Albers Josef Albers Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller Source: State Archives of North Carolina Emerson Woelffer Ilya Bolotowsky Robert Rauschenberg Ingeborg Svarc Lauterstein and  Rauschenberg at BMC. I bet at lot of good times were had there.  Source:  S...