Bauhaus Architectures and Daylight Studies
Expert article by Ute Poerschke
Figure 3a: Detail of the third competition board. Solar geometry for the day of the summer solstice. Source: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Walking through the UNESCO World Heritage building of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) in Bernau, one can observe how beautiful the interior rooms connect with the surrounding nature and how beautiful the daylight illuminates the rooms in many different facets. Most spectacular can this be experienced in the dining hall with its restored glass building blocks integrated in the ceiling and the diagonal corner view into the woods. These daylight qualities are no accident, as the Bauhaus intensively studied daylight in architecture. The ADGB-School not only served as an experimentation field but turns out to be a masterpiece with extraordinary daylight situations. In no other project did the Bauhaus grapple so comprehensively with daylight ideas.
Our publications
Bücher, Postkarten, Plakate
© The Green Box, 2021
Over the past 33 years, the baudenkmal bundesschule bernau association has published numerous publications on the building and utilisation history of the former ADGB Trade Union School and its architects Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer as well as the architect of the extension buildings, Georg Waterstradt, on a voluntary basis. These include a series of publications (issues 1 to 9) and an architectural guide. The publications were researched and compiled by Bauhaus researchers and history experts. They are the only comprehensive books on the Trade Union School and are only available in their entirety from the association. The association has also produced postcards to accompany two photo exhibitions. The association finances new projects and publications through the sale of its publications.
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The more than 20 years of successful work of the baudenkmal bundesschule bernau association is based on the stable and committed actions of its volunteers. The aspect of joint activities to solve diverse and very interesting tasks is the real reason to be a member of the association. Silent" membership for reasons of sympathy and support is always welcome. Fields of activity are plentiful and almost inexhaustible. They are oriented towards the sustainable preservation and completion of the listed building and its immediate surroundings, a broadly based public relations work, the collection of historical evidence as well as the documentation of the eventful history of the building and its use. Become a member and support an association that received the Brandenburg Prize for the Preservation of Historical Monuments in 1997 and the German Prize for the Preservation of Historical Monuments, the highest award in the Federal Republic of Germany, in 2008 for its services to this important architectural testimony of modernism.
Exhibition archive
[Translate to en:] Blick in die Ausstellung "Bauhaus Pur", Foto: Anja Guttenberger, 2022
In our exhibition archive you find the exhibitions of the association baudenkmal bundesschule bernau at the Teacher's House 9 since 2021. Take a look!
