@architecture_in_a_blink

ADGB Trade Union School, Bernau bei Berlin, 1928-30. Architects: Hannes Meyer (1889 Basel - 1954 Lugano) and Hans Wittwer (1894 Basel - 1952 Basel). Renovation Architects, 2003-11: Winfried Brenne (b. 1942 Plauen -). This is the second-most important building in the world that was actually built by the Bauhaus (after Gropius’ own building for the school). Hannes Meyer was the second director of the Bauhaus - and before that, the first Director of the Architecture Department for Walter Gropius when it was established in 1927. The ADGB School was constructed by Bauhaus students to demonstrate the principle of unifying practice and teaching. The project is a manifestation of Meyer’s radical belief in functionalism - he taught that architecture had NOTHING to do with aesthetics but was instead a scientific discipline, “a product of the formula: function times economy." Building, he said, was only organization: "social, technical, economic, psychological organization.” When he was fired in 1930 for politicizing the Bauhaus, he angrily published a letter stating that “as head of the Bauhaus, I fought the “Bauhaus” style.” And at the ADGB, you won’t find the dematerialized abstraction of Gropius’ white walls - instead, the design uses exposed brick walls, exposed steel, and glass, a counter-manifesto to Gropius’ white aesthetic. The planning of the complex is intended as a fusion of form and function and material - the architecture reflects the concept of living and learning in small units as preparation for life in the collective whole. Together with the Bauhaus Dessau, the complex was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. Today it serves as a refugee center for families escaping the War in Ukraine. #architecture #architecturalphotography #architecturephotograph #architectures #modernist #modern #modernarchitecture #historyofarchitecture #historyofmodernism #bauhaus #unesco #unescoworldheritage #adgbtradeunionschool #bernau #gropius #waltergropius #Hannesmeyer #functionalism #functionalist #bauhausdesign #bauhausarchitecture