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Having the opportunity to visit Bauhaus and see everything that our teachers in Cluj showed us about this huge cultural movement was impressive. I walked through the hallways where once Marianne Brandt (the great German artist, photographer and designer) walked, I entered the rooms where once László Moholy-Nagy( Hungarian painter, photographer and teacher) teached his famous classes, it’s a feeling I can’t completely describe. After reading these words, you may think we are huge architecture geeks now, but the truth is: we are!
Now, we only visited Dessau for an afternoon, on our way to Berlin, but I think it’s quite enough. If you ever go there you should:
- Take the time to enter the school and pay for the tickets, it’s totally worth it trust me!
- Admire all the great design that was produced there in their exhibitions, the feeling you’ll get will be: man, this looks like it was designed yesterday!
- Drink a coffee in front of the school, just for the sake of being hipster enough
- Wander around the campus
- Take a 5 minute walk to the teachers’s houses
- Last but not least, drink a glass of wine at the Gropius Garden, if you are an architect, you have to!
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So this was the famous school and its facilities designed by Walter Gropius and now, you will see the teachers’ houses, which are pretty close to this campus. Those 4 houses were also designed by Gropius between 1925 – 1926, but they are stunning. Located in a park, between trees, they were first destroyed, but were rebuild during the last 20 years. They belonged to: Gropius, Moholy-Nagy and Feininger, Muche-Schlemmer and Kandinsky-Klee. There you can also find a lot of interesting exhibitions and not many tourists, so it’s quite calm and you can enjoy this experience to the fullest!
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The Muche/Schelemer house, rebuilt in 2002
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The Moholy-Nagy/Feininger house, rebuilt in 1994
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