2018/19, THE ART OF JOINING: DESIGNING THE UNIVERSAL CONNECTOR, design research exhibition and publication, Bauhaus Lab 2018 Dessau. Texts: Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Regina Bittner, Phillip Denny, Ezgi Isbilen, Eva-Maria Offermann, Adam Przywara, Daniel Springer, Rhiannon Haycock, Lisi Zeininger.

Konrad Wachsmann played an exceptional role among modern architects in helping to industrialize architecture and fostering the potential this contained for an architectural turn. Wachsmann’s universal wedge connector, invented in the shadow of World War II and applied in the General Panel System in collaboration with Walter Gropius in the US in 1941, was the point of departure for the Bauhaus Lab 2018. The postgraduate program investigated the historical context and the discourses of transatlantic post-war modernism that come together in the metal connector, while also reflecting on the contemporary relevance of the architectural discourse surrounding the “universal connector.”

2018/19, THE ART OF JOINING: DESIGNING THE UNIVERSAL CONNECTOR, design research exhibition and publication, Bauhaus Lab 2018 Dessau. Texts: Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Regina Bittner, Phillip Denny, Ezgi Isbilen, Eva-Maria Offermann, Adam Przywara, Daniel Springer, Rhiannon Haycock, Lisi Zeininger.

Konrad Wachsmann played an exceptional role among modern architects in helping to industrialize architecture and fostering the potential this contained for an architectural turn. Wachsmann’s universal wedge connector, invented in the shadow of World War II and applied in the General Panel System in collaboration with Walter Gropius in the US in 1941, was the point of departure for the Bauhaus Lab 2018. The postgraduate program investigated the historical context and the discourses of transatlantic post-war modernism that come together in the metal connector, while also reflecting on the contemporary relevance of the architectural discourse surrounding the “universal connector.”

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The art of joining: TEAMWORK#collaborative #archive #editing #workshop

Gute Gründe#artistsbook #collaborative #archive #editing

Festival school fundamental#designdialogue #festival #space #architecture

Undefined is not an object#automateddesign #visualidentity #howtodesigntogether

New organ#editing #photobook #music

Festival new organ#visualidentity #typographicsystems #music #festival

Freedom super highly charged#posterseries #urbanspace #housingberlin

Flyers fluctuating images#flyer #dinformats #typography #mediaart

Wind above Alboran 2016-08-05#score #performance #notationssystem

Notes on space in Kassel#exhibition #curating #publicspace

Z i i t a n#mini-poster #performance

Reinklang Unten#flyer #poster #notationssystem #music #party

UTOPIEdocumenta#exhibitiondesign

The audiovisual breakthrough#alphabeticcode #notationssystem #textbook

Remixing the audiovisual breakthrough#poster #alphabeticcode #notationssytem #urbanspace

[DIE SAMMLUNG] a collective structure#archivematerial #system #poster

Weiter geht s weiter#posterseries #howtoproducetogether #performance

Für die Meisterschüler*innen#poster #typography

Black and white posters#posters #blackandwhite

Hearings#appropriation #painting #posterseries

Marabu#digital #analogue #poster #typography

Aufzug oder Treppe. Zukunftsfähige Wege#pictograms #posterseries #climatecrisis

Polyhedral#26letters #videoletter #threedimensionality

Berlin, 6.5.2020