Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Imprint Impressum 3
3. Contents 4
4. 100 Years of Bauhaus: What Remains? 6
5. Designing Life. Why we can learn more from the Bauhaus students than from its masters 10
6. The Social Turn of Architecture. On the idealism of the Bauhaus and its relevance for architecture today 20
7. Tribute to Thomas Maldonado. The aporetic aspect of the Bauhaus idea and the late-modern predicament 28
8. Bauhaus Should be Our House: Technology by Design. A look at the Bauhaus Legacy in the US 38
9. Bauhaus in Mexico. Hannes Meyer and the question of a failed utopia 48
10. The Co-Op Principle by Hannes Meyer. Architecture as a collective design process 60
11. Pidgin Bauhaus. The delirium of white walls and flat roofs 74
12. The Bauhaus and its Books. Visual identity and media strategies 88
13. Masters and Weavers. On the role of women in the laboratory of modernism 98
14. "Very Fine People on Both Sides"? On the Bauhaus anniversary in the mirror of contemporary architecture and architectural historiography in Germany 108
15. Authors 118
16. Explorations With Friederike von Rauch 126
17. Akademie der Kűnste 129
18. Picture Credits 161