Dessau Institute of Architecture, Bauhaus Campus, Dessau,
Lecture A synchronicity of cultures and civilisations, part of the central lecture cycle Dessauer Gespräche of the Dessau Institute of Architecture at the Bauhaus Campus
The Dessauer Gespräche are the faculty’s central cycle of lectures. More than 100 speeches and interdisciplinary lectures have been held since 1996: always on a Wednesday at 6:30 pm. In the process, architecture and topical issues are discussed with guests; it is a meeting place in the students’ public realm between colleagues bachelor and master’s students of the term. The speeches are held in German and English and simultaneously interpreted. A unique institution that has been tried and tested in the sense of an overarching presence for all courses. Each term follows a thematic orientation often developing from a social discourse that is in the air. Architecture is relevant.
Calendar
16 January 2019
Denis Andernach (Frankenthal) On the Drawing of Houses
17 April 2019
Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann 1900. Time of Utopias – The Topography of a German ‘Century Year’
8 May 2019
Lydia Ranke Bauhausworld
22 May 2019
Christoph Sattler (Munich) Architectural Development of a Mies-van-der-Rohe Disciple
12 June 2019
Jonathan Sergison (London) Work and Teaching
19 June 2019
Roberto González (Barcelona) Bauhaus Museum
Architects always like to make plans, and the Dessauer Gespräche had a plan for this year too: an Italian summer in the winter semester. The theme was cultural exchange, which is an inspiring thing for every art and for society.
This conference is on the theme of creative process consciousness. Consciousness almost never emerges the moment the work is created, but only afterwards. I believe that this is relevant for the development of a code that is not the only consequence of the circumstances. The representation of the work has always been a fundamental aspect of my discourse on architecture. I will then present seven images of my projects, all of which I have photographed myself.
Bibliography
Johannes Kister, ‘Vortragsreihe: Dessauer Gespräche’, Next to Bauhaus, vol. 2, ed. Matthias Hoehne, Hochschule Anhalt, Dessau Institute of Architecture, March 2020, pp. 216‑217.
Antonino Cardillo, ‘A synchronicity of cultures and civilisations’, lecture as part of the Dessauer Gespräche cur. Johannes Kister, Hochschule Anhalt, Dessau Institute of Architecture, 13 Nov. 2019; transcript published on antoninocardillo.com, 15 April 2023.
