The Bauhaus Promenade Museum, Dessau Building, 20th Century Architecture, German Building Project
The Bauhaus Promenade Museum in Dessau
German Building Development in Germany ? design by Matteo Cainer Architects
31 Jan 2018
The Bauhaus Promenade Museum
Design: Matteo Cainer Architects
Location: Dessau, Germany
The Bauhaus Promenade Museum

To capture the spirit of the Bauhaus is to recognise the scale and vision of one of the most important movements in 20th century contemporary design. The Bauhaus had a profound effect upon developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design and typography and also brought about social change through the industrial production and distribution of modernism. Its influence was further enhanced by the many teachers and followers who subsequently emigrated all over the world, and it is still felt today.
Within this context, the new museum is conceived not only as a repository of artefacts and historical documentation, but as a contemporary manifestation of the Bauhaus?s original vision, where man?s place in nature and within the city is explored and understood. A series of open, connected public spaces are linked by a promenade that forges a coherent tension between the multiple disciplines of the Bauhaus. If architecture is described as a ‘line-focused’ discipline, a non-linear treatise can offer a new and dynamic perspective, where the natural and the artificial are bound together in a state of...