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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germanyen_US
dc.coverage.temporaldisplay ca. 2009 (exhibition)en_US
dc.creatorGropius, Walteren_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-29T16:46:52Z
dc.date.available2013-07-29T16:46:52Z
dc.date.issued2013-07-29
dc.identifier227198en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2192en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/134981
dc.descriptionPlan, depicting evolution of the construction of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee semidetached house (drawing found on site); Drawings displayed at the Kandinsky/Klee house, which is open to the public. In 1925, the city of Dessau commissioned Walter Gropius with the construction of three semidetached houses for the Bauhaus masters and a detached house for its director. The plot lies in a small pine-tree wood where Ebertallee stands today. In 1926, Gropius and the Bauhaus masters László Moholy-Nagy and Lyonel Feininger, Georg Muche and Oskar Schlemmer as well as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee were able to move in with their families. With this ensemble of buildings, Gropius aimed, using industrially prefabricated and simple “building block” construction elements, to put the principles of efficient construction into practice--both in relation to the architecture and the building process itself. The semidetached houses are essentially all the same: Each half of the house shares the same floor plan, albeit mirrored and rotated by 90°. Only on the second floor do the halves of the houses differ; the western section always features two additional rooms. Source: Bauhaus Dessau [website]; http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/ (accessed 5/8/2011)en_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectHousingen_US
dc.subjectRestoration and conservationen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectBauhausen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.titleMasters' Houses Ensemble: Drawingsen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-GW-MH-AA-A1en_US
vra.culturalContextGermanen_US
vra.techniqueen_US
vra.worktypesite planen_US
dc.contributor.displayafter Walter Gropius (American architect, 1883-1969)en_US


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