One hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus in 1919, the 14th Inter­national Bauhaus Colloquium will reflect on the history of the school at its original sites in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin, as well as its inter­national reception and migration. In the anniversary year of the founding of the Bauhaus, this colloquium will bring together an inter­disciplinary community of researchers, providing a critical look back at its beginnings and at the historical context of the year 1919. It also aims to shed light on the socio-political context of the Bauhaus in twentieth-century history and examine the establishment of “Bauhaus architecture” as a canonical style in the archi­tectural historio­graphy of the post-war period. Inevitably, the history of the Bauhaus reflects on some of the core questions of the design disciplines of today, so inter­national architects, urban planners, artists, social scientists, historians, and theoreticians will confront representations and perspectives of the historical Bauhaus with the present day.

Ines Weizman
Conference director