As part of the Greening the modern preservation movement: Bauhaus at the brink [1] series,
Bauhaus in America: a film by Judith Pearlman, followed by a panel discussion with Cleveland architect, Peter Van Dijk and associate professor of art history at Kent State University, Carol Salus, moderated by Christopher Diehl, director of the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative.
a true story about architecture, design, art and human nature in the 20th century
Germany, 1919: a group of young people meet in a small town on the cutting edge of a worldwide revolution in art, politics, design and architecture. They are destined to invent the future and rebuild the world; the Bauhaus is their knife.
Inspired by the genius of its celebrated artists and designers, the school generates tremendous heat and influence for fourteen stormy years - until Hitler seizes power in 1933. BAUHAUS IN AMERICA draws this dynamic story into the sweep of history, from the shanty towns of the Great Depression to the steel towers of the Millennium and beyond.
The film opens with three Americans - who were students there - reliving the day the Nazis closed the Bauhaus in Berlin. As the Bauhaus' leading designers are driven into exile, they transform the look of America's cities, interiors, design and art - and are profoundly transformed themselves in the process. Their success has consequences they could never have imagined in Germany.
The circle is closed, decades later, by American students creating a plan for 21st-century Berlin, pointing to a renaissance of Bauhaus ideas now that post-Modernism has sung its song. The Bauhaus is back where it began: in the hands of young people inventing the future and rebuilding the world.
$8 general admission/$6 CIA students, staff and Cinematheque members. For more information, go here. [2]
And:
What Would You Do With The Breuer Building? (from Ingenuity 2007) will be displayed in the hallway of the CIA Building for those who missed it or would like to view it again—the show features twenty seven entries from Australia to Italy with several local architects offering innovative thoughts.
For more information, email millerbowen [at] adelphia [dot] net.
Brought to you by Doty & Miller Architects [3], D.H. Ellison Co. [4], Peter Lawson Jones [5], Recent Past Preservation Network [6], Richard Fleischman Architects [7], Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, [8] Robert Maschke Architects, Inc., [9] Process Creative Studios Inc., [10] Jim Rokakis [11], Schmidt Copeland Parker Stevens [12] with assistance from Cleveland Cinematheque [13], Cleveland Institute of Art [14], Judson Manor [15], The Sculpture Center [16], Intermuseum Conservation Association [17], AIA Cleveland [18], Kent State University Art History [19], Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative [20], Cleveland Artists Foundation [21], GreenCityBlueLake [22], Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs [23], Studio Techne Architects [24]