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Bauhaus Museum Dessau 2019
Dessau builds in Modernism style.
Foundation stone ceremony
The foundation stone ceremony for the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau was held on the "Bauhaus Building 90th Anniversary" celebratory weekend on Sunday, 4 December 2016 – one year after the decision in an open, international architecture competition for the museum with architecture firm González Hinz Zabala of Spain as the winner from among more than 800 entries.
A black box for the historic collection and an open stage for contemporary discourse
In December 2015, the award decision was made for the design by young Spanish architects González Hinz Zabala of Barcelona. The competition jury has been convinced by their concept of the museum as a glass shell accommodating a "Black Box" for the Bauhaus Collection on the upper storey and an open-plan ground floor.
The Bauhaus Museum Dessau is scheduled for completion by the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus foundation in 2019. It will be built in order to publicly display the huge collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation whose 40,000 exhibits make it the second-largest Bauhaus Collection in the world. The builder-owner is Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, represented by its director Dr. Claudia Perren. Now, one year after the award decision, the preliminary and conceptual design have been completed and a building application filed with the city of Dessau-Roßlau.
Collection, custody and care – are the museum tasks performed on the top floor by the "Black Box" that is soaring as a hermetic spatial structure within the glass envelope and is reserved for presenting the collection. Its counterpart is the transparent ground floor with a highly flexible spade concept very much like an "open stage" which provides a variety of staging areas for present-day positions with the declared of reaching out into the surrounding park and the urban space.
Rita McBride's Arena as Open Stage in the Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Interactive installations, talks, film presentations, discussions, dance, theatre and performance projects will be developed on the Open Stage.
Lucy Raven: Lichtspielhaus
New York artist Lucy Raven has won the invitation competition "Kunst am Bau" – with her concept of "Lichtspielhaus", a dynamic lighting installation made of glass in different colours, which interacts with the architecture of the building by González Hinz Zabala (addenda architects).
Interview with Frank Assmann
Head of Departement Construction
How is the construction of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau progressing? The Head of Departement Building and Construction answers
Frequently Asked Questions on the Bauhaus Museum Dessau
The Infobox is an inititaive by the Dessau Business Juniors, in cooperation with Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, supported by the City of Dessau-Roßlau. On this Q&A website you will be informed on all facts about the Bauhaus Museum Dessau and are invited to ask your questions.
The architecture of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau
by addenda architects from Barcelona
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
The Bauhaus Museum Dessau is scheduled for completion by the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus Foundation in 2019.
As a school, the Bauhaus has always been a place for new ideas with an international outlook. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation has therefore organised an open, international call for entries for the architecture competition for the new Bauhaus Museum, which …
Gonzalez Hinz Zabala
The architecture office Gonzalez Hinz Zabala works as a collective in which individualists come together. They understand architecture as spatial design for the social and cultural developments of our age. Simplicity is thereby a clear principle. The office's themes are …
The Bauhaus Museum Dessau is being built for the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus and will open in 2019, the centenary year.