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BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: FROM MATERIAL TO ARCHITECTURE

László Moholy-Nagy’s From Material to Architecture is the 14th book and final book in the Bauhausbücher series. Published in 1929, a year after his departure from the Bauhaus, it offers a comprehensive overview of the themes he explored as an artist and professor during his half-decade at the school, as well as insight into the holistic teaching approaches he developed alongside Walter Gropius. The book’s general trajectory follows that of its title, beginning with materials in their most basic form.

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BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: THE NON-OBJECTIVE WORLD

Like Kandinsky before him, Kasimir Malevich arrived at the Bauhaus already wielding an impressive international reputation. His trip to Germany in the spring of 1927 saw him visit both Dessau and Berlin; while in the former he met with Gropius and was able to arrange for the publication of what would be the eleventh book in the Bauhausbücher series: The Non-objective World (Die gegenstandslose Welt). 

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BRUTALIST BERLIN

As a major center of iconic postwar architecture, Berlin has featured frequently in the Blue Crow Media catalog, with various offerings covering the city’s Modernist and Brutalist architecture, as well as its fascinating Cold War-era U-Bahn stations. Brutalist Berlin, out this month, transforms and expands the corresponding map into a proper full-length book, which serves equally well as both an on-the-ground travel guide and reference book for armchair travelers and scholars.

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BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: POINT AND LINE TO PLANE

Wassily Kandinsky was already an internationally renowned artist and thinker by the time he joined the Bauhaus in 1922, having written Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art) a decade prior and exhibited his work throughout Europe yet longer. While he claimed to have written the majority of Point and Line to Plane prior to 1914, it was not published until 1926, when it would become the ninth book in the Bauhausbücher series. 

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BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE

International Architecture, the initial title in the Bauhausbücher series, serves as a manifesto of sorts for editor Walter Gropius. Its general subject asserts the primacy of architecture over the other disciplines covered by the Bauhaus, and the specific structures he chooses are unerringly contemporary—some so new they are unbuilt, existing only as sketches or models.

John Peck
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