HANDCRAFT BECOMES MODERN

With all the hammering, planing, sawing, and weaving, the workshops at the Bauhaus Dessau must have been quite loud and dusty. The p ublication Handcraft Becomes Modern. On Production at the Bauhaus looks at the Bauhaus from the perspective of handcraft. No term wa s more fiercely disputed there. The workshops were transit spaces: between factory and craft business, between free experiments and industrial contract work. From this field of tension, the Bauhaus tried to define handcraft anew as a utopia, but also in coexistenc e with in...[Read more]