Home Is Everywhere

[i]International Bauhaus Summer School 2010[/i] 21 July – 30 July 2010 In our forthcoming issue on the "House of the Future" ARCH+ features prominently the concept of the "Growing House" which Martin Wagner first conceived in 1931 by organising the competition "The Growing House". "Growing" stood for "natural building", a form of building which would offer an adjustment strategy in times of abrupt swings from crisis to boom. This idea was conceived when the building industry went into crisis after ‘the Golden Twenties’. The competition was followed by an exhibition of model houses called "Sonne, Luft und Haus für alle" (Sun, Air, and House for all) in 1932 which presented solutions to those on a low-income who dreamed of their own home: houses which were flexible enough to adapt to shifting economic conditions and a constant change in family structures. (See forthcoming ARCH+ 198/199 Haus der Zukunft: Smart Price Houses, Smart Material Houses, Hybrid Houses, Water Houses, available from May 18th, 2010) The global financial market crisis of 2008 has internationally almost analogous consequences. The collapse of the property market placed many homeowners with mortgages in a desperate position. The second international Bauhaus Summer School invites young students from various disciplines to come to Dessau-Roßlau and take part in an idea contest on site. Starting from the "Growing House" from 1932, fantasies shall be developed of four different kinds of a multi-local living in Dessau-Roßlau. For more information: http://www.archplus.net/index.php?s=Newsletter&c=10#BD Featured Workshops are: Garden shead XXL | Boarding house | Global home Platte | Home comforts on the move Fee 300 EUR (including accomodation) For further information and to submit your application please contact: [url=summerschool@bauhaus-dessau.de]summerschool@bauhaus-dessau.de[/url]