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Deborah Ascher Barnstone and Thomas O. Haakenson Introduction: Why Visual Culture Matters
Representations of German Identity
Hans Scharoun
The Break with the Past, 2017
Oskar Schlemmer's Explorations of Body, Space and Image
German artist Oskar Schlemmer had a lifelong obsession with the intersection between the human bo... more German artist Oskar Schlemmer had a lifelong obsession with the intersection between the human body, space, and the image. Best known for his explorations of the altered body in space in the Triadic Ballets, Schlemmer inverted the space/body/image relationship in his less known metal installation at Adolf Rading’s Haus Rabe (1930) in Zwenkau, Germany. The Triadic Ballets probe the dimensions and limitations of the human physical body by encasing it in oddly inhibiting costumes that simultaneously exaggerate features of body parts while constricting movement. At the same time, the ballets test the costumed body’s relationship to, and its ability to occupy and move through space. As Schlemmer said, the ballet tests “both the laws of the body and the laws of space.” The images presented to the audience are frontal theatrical views framed by the stage’s proscenium. In contrast, Schlemmer’s installation for Haus Rabe consists of figurative wall installations and abstract geometric paintings on all six surfaces of the room. He made several metal pieces - an enormous copper profile looking towards a diagonally arranged, doll-like wire figure holding an even smaller plate metal figure in its left hand, that are hung on the walls of the main living space. Schlemmer was fascinated by the doll, which he saw as an abstraction of the human figure and he was experimenting with ways to use the image of the body to animate space. Parts of the floor are bright red, cobalt blue, and black rectangles; the ceiling is beige bisected by two white lines of differing widths; a section of the wall over the alcove features a semicircle that is part white stripes and part black situated off centre between two black rectangles suspended just above; inside the most private part of the room one wall is bright red while a rounded red form oozes across the ceiling. It is as if Schlemmer had folded pieces of an abstract painting inward in order to contain space. Schlemmer aimed to “reach a new form of abstraction via the specification of architects, which involve not painting as such but compositions in material adapted to the given situation.” The painted surfaces transform the room into a performance space. Unlike the formal stage on which the Triadic Ballets were performed, this is an informal setting for domestic dramas, what Marcia Feuerstein calls, “Architecture as performing art.” Schlemmer’s metallic pieces are witnesses to the action, images of the idealized and mechanized body as well as reminders that the house is the realm and sanctuary of the body
Transparency in Divided Berlin: The Palace of the Republic
Bruno Taut and the Reformbewegung: The dissolution of the cities
Bruno Taut's work The Dissolution of the Cities is usually held up as a paragon of utopian fa... more Bruno Taut's work The Dissolution of the Cities is usually held up as a paragon of utopian fantasy but is never examined for its deep connections to the German Reform Movements of the last 19th and early 20th centuries
The 1929 Breslau Werkbund Exhibition: Constructing German Identity in Architecture and Urban Design
The architecture of the 1929 Breslau Werkbund's Wohnung und Werkraum Ausstellung ["Live ... more The architecture of the 1929 Breslau Werkbund's Wohnung und Werkraum Ausstellung ["Live and Work Space exhibition"] (WuWA) offers a picture of 1920s Silesian German cultural identity, and by extension German national identity, as a complex and nuanced interplay between cultural traditionalism and modernism
Inverted Cubism or the Spatial Painting: Adolf Rading's House Dr. Rabe in Zwenkau
Deborah Ascher Barnstone The 1929 Breslau Werkbund Exhibition: Constructing German Identity in Archi
Representations of German Identity
The Green Revolution
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2013
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2011
Sustainable development and the green building movement have been adopted faster than any recent ... more Sustainable development and the green building movement have been adopted faster than any recent movement in the engineering field. With over 40% of the total U.S. energy usage servicing the operation of commercial and residential buildings, this trend is well founded. Recent surveys of the industry indicate that within 4 to 5 years, a vast majority of engineering firms expect their business will be significantly dedicated to green building designs. In contrast, current academic institutions are not well positioned to prepare young engineers for this challenge, and current faculty are not well trained in the tenets of sustainability or the roles of engineers in this movement. Change must occur if the engineering and design professions are to remain relevant and responsive to societal needs. To accommodate this challenge, the writers have designed and implemented the Integrated Design Experience (IDeX), a capstone course in which undergraduate and graduate students interact with faculty and practitioners on real projects with challenging needs in sustainability. The course is designed to provide an actual and virtual space for the multitude of disciplines to interact on real designs to foster both improved research and outreach efforts. Expected outcomes from the course include both student and faculty learning on the methods and value of sustainable design as well as the development of an interdisciplinary network of faculty and practitioners involved in sustainable design. Learning is being evaluated using a continuous authentic assessment of design products. First-year results indicate that students learned interdisciplinary teamwork and communication skills, and they see substantial value in the authentic design experience. In future years, the development of the interdisciplinary network will be tracked by using social networking tools and by assessing faculty attitudes toward involvement in IDeX. Both metrics will be investigated using the diffusions of innovation framework. The combined evaluation will lead to an in-depth understanding of how the IDeX model can be scaled and replicated at other institutions.
Real Utopian or Utopian Realist?
Passagen des Exils / Passages of Exile
From the Zero Hour: Transparency, Gender and Architecture in Post-War Germany
How Art Resists
Art and Resistance in Germany, 2019
An der Oder: River Romance in Breslau
The dynamic relationship between text and architecture: Günter Behnisch's Bonn Bundehaus
Real Utopian or Utopian Realist? Erich Mendelsohn's Multiple Passages of Exile and the Academie European Mediteranée
Deborah Ascher Barnstone and Thomas O. Haakenson Introduction: Why Visual Culture Matters
Representations of German Identity
Hans Scharoun
The Break with the Past, 2017
Oskar Schlemmer's Explorations of Body, Space and Image
German artist Oskar Schlemmer had a lifelong obsession with the intersection between the human bo... more German artist Oskar Schlemmer had a lifelong obsession with the intersection between the human body, space, and the image. Best known for his explorations of the altered body in space in the Triadic Ballets, Schlemmer inverted the space/body/image relationship in his less known metal installation at Adolf Rading’s Haus Rabe (1930) in Zwenkau, Germany. The Triadic Ballets probe the dimensions and limitations of the human physical body by encasing it in oddly inhibiting costumes that simultaneously exaggerate features of body parts while constricting movement. At the same time, the ballets test the costumed body’s relationship to, and its ability to occupy and move through space. As Schlemmer said, the ballet tests “both the laws of the body and the laws of space.” The images presented to the audience are frontal theatrical views framed by the stage’s proscenium. In contrast, Schlemmer’s installation for Haus Rabe consists of figurative wall installations and abstract geometric paintings on all six surfaces of the room. He made several metal pieces - an enormous copper profile looking towards a diagonally arranged, doll-like wire figure holding an even smaller plate metal figure in its left hand, that are hung on the walls of the main living space. Schlemmer was fascinated by the doll, which he saw as an abstraction of the human figure and he was experimenting with ways to use the image of the body to animate space. Parts of the floor are bright red, cobalt blue, and black rectangles; the ceiling is beige bisected by two white lines of differing widths; a section of the wall over the alcove features a semicircle that is part white stripes and part black situated off centre between two black rectangles suspended just above; inside the most private part of the room one wall is bright red while a rounded red form oozes across the ceiling. It is as if Schlemmer had folded pieces of an abstract painting inward in order to contain space. Schlemmer aimed to “reach a new form of abstraction via the specification of architects, which involve not painting as such but compositions in material adapted to the given situation.” The painted surfaces transform the room into a performance space. Unlike the formal stage on which the Triadic Ballets were performed, this is an informal setting for domestic dramas, what Marcia Feuerstein calls, “Architecture as performing art.” Schlemmer’s metallic pieces are witnesses to the action, images of the idealized and mechanized body as well as reminders that the house is the realm and sanctuary of the body
Transparency in Divided Berlin: The Palace of the Republic
Bruno Taut and the Reformbewegung: The dissolution of the cities
Bruno Taut's work The Dissolution of the Cities is usually held up as a paragon of utopian fa... more Bruno Taut's work The Dissolution of the Cities is usually held up as a paragon of utopian fantasy but is never examined for its deep connections to the German Reform Movements of the last 19th and early 20th centuries
The 1929 Breslau Werkbund Exhibition: Constructing German Identity in Architecture and Urban Design
The architecture of the 1929 Breslau Werkbund's Wohnung und Werkraum Ausstellung ["Live ... more The architecture of the 1929 Breslau Werkbund's Wohnung und Werkraum Ausstellung ["Live and Work Space exhibition"] (WuWA) offers a picture of 1920s Silesian German cultural identity, and by extension German national identity, as a complex and nuanced interplay between cultural traditionalism and modernism
Inverted Cubism or the Spatial Painting: Adolf Rading's House Dr. Rabe in Zwenkau
Deborah Ascher Barnstone The 1929 Breslau Werkbund Exhibition: Constructing German Identity in Archi
Representations of German Identity
The Green Revolution
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2013
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2011
Sustainable development and the green building movement have been adopted faster than any recent ... more Sustainable development and the green building movement have been adopted faster than any recent movement in the engineering field. With over 40% of the total U.S. energy usage servicing the operation of commercial and residential buildings, this trend is well founded. Recent surveys of the industry indicate that within 4 to 5 years, a vast majority of engineering firms expect their business will be significantly dedicated to green building designs. In contrast, current academic institutions are not well positioned to prepare young engineers for this challenge, and current faculty are not well trained in the tenets of sustainability or the roles of engineers in this movement. Change must occur if the engineering and design professions are to remain relevant and responsive to societal needs. To accommodate this challenge, the writers have designed and implemented the Integrated Design Experience (IDeX), a capstone course in which undergraduate and graduate students interact with faculty and practitioners on real projects with challenging needs in sustainability. The course is designed to provide an actual and virtual space for the multitude of disciplines to interact on real designs to foster both improved research and outreach efforts. Expected outcomes from the course include both student and faculty learning on the methods and value of sustainable design as well as the development of an interdisciplinary network of faculty and practitioners involved in sustainable design. Learning is being evaluated using a continuous authentic assessment of design products. First-year results indicate that students learned interdisciplinary teamwork and communication skills, and they see substantial value in the authentic design experience. In future years, the development of the interdisciplinary network will be tracked by using social networking tools and by assessing faculty attitudes toward involvement in IDeX. Both metrics will be investigated using the diffusions of innovation framework. The combined evaluation will lead to an in-depth understanding of how the IDeX model can be scaled and replicated at other institutions.
Real Utopian or Utopian Realist?
Passagen des Exils / Passages of Exile
From the Zero Hour: Transparency, Gender and Architecture in Post-War Germany
How Art Resists
Art and Resistance in Germany, 2019
An der Oder: River Romance in Breslau
The dynamic relationship between text and architecture: Günter Behnisch's Bonn Bundehaus
Real Utopian or Utopian Realist? Erich Mendelsohn's Multiple Passages of Exile and the Academie European Mediteranée