Dessau Institute of Architecture, Bauhaus Campus

The Dessau Talks are the faculty’s central series 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.

2019

• 16. Januar
  Denis Andernach, Frankenthal
  Vom Zeichnen von Häusern
• 17. April
  Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann
  1900. Zeit der Utopien–Zur Topografie eines deutschen »Jahrhundertjahres«
• 8. Mai
  Lydia Ranke
  Bauhausworld
• 22. Mai
  Christoph Sattler, München
  Architektonische Entwicklung eines Mies-van-der-Rohe-Eleven
• 12. Juni
  Jonathan Sergison, London
  Werk und Lehre
• 19. Juni
  Roberto González, Barcelona
  Bauhausmuseum
• 13. November
  Antonino Cardillo, Trapani
  A Synchronicity of Cultures and Civilisations
• 27. November
  Andreas Kipar, Düsseldorf
  Paesaggio / Landschaft–Italien / Deutschland (K)ein Vergleich?
• 4. Dezember
  Zeitform Architekten, Halle (Saale)
  Großmann Architektur, Halle (Saale)
  Dessauer Gespräche regional

1. The reflection on the water
2. The cave and the things
3. The guardians of the gold
4. The sacred eroticism of the phallus
5. The place of the nymph
6. The temenos of the psyche
7. The symbols of transformation

Bibliography

• Johannes Itten, Kunst der Farbe, Otto Maier, Ravensburg, 1961; It. ed. Augusta Monferini and Marta Bignami, Arte del colore: esperienza soggettiva e conoscenza oggettiva come vie per l’arte, Il Saggiatore, Milan, 1965, pp. 156.

Venue

Poster

Source

• Johannes Kister, ‘Vortragsreihe: Dessauer Gespräche’ [pdf], in Next to Bauhaus, vol. 2, ed. Matthias Hoehne, Hochschule Anhalt, Dessau Institute of Architecture, March 2020, pp. 216‑217.