Das Arbeitsamt von Walter Gropius in Dessau

• Autores: Robin Krause
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 63, Nº. 2, 2000, págs. 242-268
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Walter Gropius's 1929 Arbeitsamt (employment exchange) in Dessau, Germany, is discussed. The writer addresses the history of the project, other employment exchanges in the Weimar Republic, and important study on employment exchanges prepared by Berlin urban planner Martin Wagner, the interior installations (which were mainly produced in the Bauhaus workshops), and the formal/aesthetic principles underlying the exchange's exterior.