Analyzing Bauhaus Influence at the Architecture Research Centre [ARC]

100 years of impact in modern art and architecture

The Goethe-Institut Cyprus, in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at UNIC, is organising a conference on the subject of Bauhaus and its influence in the field of Arts, at the Architecture Research Centre, on Wednesday, 3 April at 17:30.

The conference will feature invited speakers and experts, who will present, discuss and analyze Bauhaus from varying perspectives. The keynote speaker, Prof. Dr. Magdalena Droste, former Director of the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, will give an in-depth presentation about Bauhaus, covering its illustrious history, the changes through its 3 different directors, the historical context in relation to Bauhaus, leading up to the present day, 100 years after the Bauhaus school was founded in 1919.

The following presentations each shed light on different aspects of Bauhaus and its influence, as Tatiana Efrussi takes us on a journey to the Soviet Union, Prof. Dr. Miodrag Suvakovic to the Balkans, and Associate Professor Dr. Panayiota Pyla brings us back to Cyprus.
All presentations will be delivered in English.

Conference programme:
17:30 Keynote lecture: “Das Bauhaus”
Prof. Dr. Magdalena Droste, Berlin
Former Director of the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin
Q&Α

18:55-19:15 Break
19:15-19:45 “Bauhaus Erfahrungen nicht anwendbar” (bauhaus experiences not applicable) – “Bauhaus architects in the Soviet Union”
Tatiana Efrussi, Paris
Art Historian and artist

19:45-20:15 “The Bauhaus influence in the Balkan region in art, design and architecture”,
Prof. Dr. Miodrag Suvakovic, Belgrade
Professor of applied aesthetics & theory of art and media and Dean of Faculty for Media and Communications, Belgrade, Serbia

20:15-20:45 “The influence of Bauhaus in Cyprus / Cyprus modernism”
Associate Prof. Dr. Panayiota Pyla, Nicosia
Architectural historian and theorist, and Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus

20:45 End of programme
For the full Bauhaus Open House programme of events, please see: www.goethe.de/cyprus/bauhausimhaus

What is the Bauhaus?
With the public Bauhaus school in 1919 in Weimar, one of the earliest and most important schools of art and design was founded. Almost no other movement has influenced modern art and architecture as much as Bauhaus. And yet, it was not formed through a universal aesthetic theory, but specifically through the social-democratic politics of the Weimar Republic.
Founded and directed by architect Walter Gropius, the education at the Bauhaus school aimed to connect art and craft. The goal of the school was the training of a new type of artist, who was to combine design and architecture, and create individual products suitable for mass production.

The Bauhaus did not and does not exist. This school is by no means a specifically German phenomenon. Rather, Bauhaus and its network can be considered a culmination of various avant-garde trends. Architects, artists, crafters, academics/researchers, educators and dancers, from around the world, taught and were taught at the Bauhaus. Equally heterogeneous were their respective motives.

Today, the Bauhaus can still be considered an interchangeable term for the modern. On its 100th birthday, the Goethe-Institut along with its partners, experts and interested visitors, embark upon a search for its traces and ask questions about its influence – looking for the legacy of Bauhaus in architecture, design, art, dance, film, education and music.