New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
A panel recommended that a site, designed by Walter Gropius and once slated to be part of the city’s failed bid for the 2016 Olympics, be placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Ecology of Absence (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
St. Louis has a long way to go to catch up to Chicago. While our Archdiocese senselessly demolished a motel by Charles Colbert this year, Chicago city government has been working to demolish the Michael Reese Hospital campus planned and co-designed by Walter Gropius. This week, the city's wreckers demolished the power plant shown above, which was completed in 1953 and designed by Gropius' The Architects...
ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The Gropius in Chicago Coalition will be holding a rally today, Tuesday, November 24 at noon in Daley Plaza to protest the destruction of the architecture of the Michael Reese Hospital campus, and to save the remaining buildings designed with collaboration of Bauhaus co-founder Walter Gropius. All concerned residents are urged to attend, and to wear black. This is the 1912 powerhouse designed in 1911...
Violinist.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
By Laurie Niles: I realized on Thursday night that despite having listened to recordings of the Alban Berg Violin Concerto countless times, I hadn't come close to understanding it. Seeing a live performance enlightened me; moreover, seeing a live performance with violinist Gil Shaham , conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall energized my senses. The evening also included...
ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
This Thursday, November 19th at high noon, at 1338 West Lake, Leslie Hindman will be auctioning off over 50 lots of rare architectural books from the famed, late, lamented Prairie Avenue Bookshop. You can review the entire catalogue, which also includes such literary items as first editions of This Side of Paradise , Catch-22 , In Our Time , and The Sun Also Rises, as well as antique volumes such as...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity at MoMA. "...Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology. Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Germany’s idealistic designers have much to teach the modern world ART movements that are launched with manifestos often seem both brazen and naive. “Let us collectively desire, conceive and create the new building of the future,” wrote Walter Gropius in his Bauhaus call to arms in 1919. Heralding a new school of art, architecture and design in Weimar, Germany, he declared that this...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
For more than three decades Monica Pidgeon edited the Bloomsbury-based Architectural Design (AD). This influential and radical journal was a prime source of information on contemporary architectural culture, and had an international reach. It gave prominence to the work of such architects as Le Corbusier, Jose Luis Sert, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Richard Buckminster Fuller, and Alison and...
Art Boobs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Ferenc Berko: Bombay, 1941 Vintage gelatin silver print, 11 7/8 x 9 13/16 inches Ferenc Berkó (1916-2000) is part of long tradition of Hungarian émigré photographers, which includes Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkásci. Influenced by some of the great Bauhaus teachers at a young age, Berko explored...
fine nudes (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Ferenc Berko: Bombay, 1941 Vintage gelatin silver print, 11 7/8 x 9 13/16 inches Click on image to enlarge. Gitterman Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of vintage black and white photographs by Ferenc Berko. Ferenc Berkó (1916-2000) is part of long tradition of Hungarian émigré photographers, which includes Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László...
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
German publisher Bruno Gmunder has published Daydream , a collection of pitch perfect pics by the artist known as P239 . Buildings haven't been this hot since Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus movement ninety years ago. Hopefully a pop-up / 3D version is coming soon.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
When the Bauhaus art school opened in 1919, more women applied than men - so why have we never heard of them? Bobbed, geometric haircuts. Chunky jewellery. Vegetarian diets. Saxophone playing. Breathing exercises. Painting. Carving. Snapping with brand new 35mm Leica cameras. Dressing in the artiest handmade clothes. Attending arty parties. Ninety years on from the founding of Walter Gropius 's legendary...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
They were artists, designers and architects with a mission: What can we make of art in the modern age? That modern age was post-WWI Germany -- and with geniuses such as Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Vassily Kandinsky and Marcel Breuer at the helm, wh...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A divided Commission on Chicago Landmarks on Thursday voted against a proposal to place the partially demolished former Michael Reese Hospital Campus -- which includes buildings co-designed by noted architect Walter Gropius -- on the National Register of Historic Places. Also Thursday, the commission unanimously voted to recommend to the Chicago City Council that the houses of two great African-American...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Photograph: © Grahm M. Balkany / Gropius in Chicago Coalition, used with permission It is hard to get people excited about saving buildings from the 50s and 60s. But then it used to be hard to get people excited about saving Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, and now Chicago values them above all else. That is why it is so stupid to see the City of Chicago demolish the work of Walter Gropius, one...
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