The studio’s production exploits 100 years of hindsight for testing and re-evaluating the radical and potent processes and ideas of the German school and its follow-up institutions in the US and elsewhere. The Bauhaus’ influence on our daily lives and environment is still all-encompassing and so absorbed and ubiquitous that the direct formal and stylistic repertory that comes to mind needs to be circumvented. Instead the focus is on the processes and productive tensions within the school and its multiple voices.

The Bauhaus’ Preliminary Course, offers a powerful and still current repertory of approaches to formal exploration, deploying abstraction as a process to interrogate, densify and instrumentalize reality, revealing multiple strands of meaning and formal templates for further design work.

Through this perspective, the studio engages multiple fundamental architectural registers dialectically through its constituting basic concepts of space, material and use.

From the 1920s to the 1950s and beyond, architecture was propelled by Rationalism to overcome a mimetic relation to the arts and instead intimately and directly align with life itself.

Despite the employment of abstract geometric forms, the ambition of Neue Sachlichkeit was to embody its contemporary and evolving social conditions, lifestyle, needs and technological potential at once.

The studio will gather, update and renew social and environmental drivers appropriate to a ‘New Building’ and experimentally gauge the formal repertory left salient and open-ended by the Bauhaus and Constructivism.

Through employing the Bauhaus as a critical lens, the projects aims at circumventing the superficial reading of style and to reclaim technology’s open-ended, projective potential.

Fundamental creative inquiry through open-ended design and form-finding processes shall gradually condense into a diagrammatic system that can offer multiple directions to be developed according to the specificities of any given brief and context.

The interrelationships and reciprocities between material-concept, form-affect, context-autonomy, function-meaning etc. shall enable the navigation and mediation of architecture and the development of a personal focus and corresponding technique in preparation for the final BAAS project.