The Co-op Principle: Hannes Meyer and the Concept of Collective Design
The Co-op Principle: Hannes Meyer and the Concept of Collective Design
$25.00
Franklin, Raquel & Werner Moller
Spector Books 2016
Book ID: 100277
The Co-op Principle: Hannes Meyer and the Concept of Collective Design. Cooperatives, sharing communities, co-housingÑin the late 1920s the Bauhaus took a keen interest in the relationship between society and design, the individual and collaborative creation and production. A key figure in this development was architect Hannes Meyer (1889Ð1954), the second Bauhaus director, whose revolutionary collaborative design process is documented here for the first time. With his appointment in 1928, Meyer brought a change in thinking: from author-architect to collective, from the need for luxury to the needs of the people, playing a key role radically orienting the schoolÕs teaching, workshops, its planning and architecture around the idea and needs of the collective until his politically motivated dismissal in 1930. Informative texts by researchers Werner Moller and Astrid Volpert, with introduction by director Claudia Perren, are illustrated with a wonderful array of archival photos of students, performances, furniture and building projects that convey the energy and optimism of the time.
96 pp. Eglish Pap.
