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SUMMARY:Constructing Blossoming Landscapes - Prof. Alfred Jacoby - Directo
 r of Dessau Institute of Architecture (DIA)\, Anhalt University of Applied
  Science\, Bauhaus Dessau
DTSTART:20111116T131500Z
DTEND:20111116T141500Z
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CONTACT:Peter Armitage
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*: The lecture title refers to Helmut Kohl's promise 
 to construct "blossoming landscapes" in the former DDR after the fall of t
 he Berlin Wall in 1989. The lecture deals with parallels in the political 
 history of the Bauhaus and its successor institutions from 1919 until toda
 y. Especially institutions of design education dedicated to the ideas of "
 Modernity" like the Bauhaus and its continuation in Ulm were always under 
 constant political attack. Each time\, extreme right wing reactionary Germ
 an politicians succeeded in having these schools closed. Finally the lectu
 re tries to argue that "Blossoming Landscapes" are the result of intellect
 ual and not of material "properties" of a society.\n\n*Biography*: Profess
 or Jacoby is a German architect and educator. He is director of Dessau Ins
 titute of\nArchitecture (DIA) at Anhalt University of Applied Science\, lo
 cated at the Bauhaus of Dessau\, Germany and was Regnier Chair of the Depa
 rtment of Architecture\, Kansas State University. He received MA degree fr
 om Cambridge and an architectural degree from ETH\, Zurich. His special in
 terest lies in sacred architecture and the history and theory of architect
 ure.
LOCATION:First-floor Classroom\, Department of Architecture\, 1-5 Scroope 
 Terrace\, Cambridge\, CB2 1PX\, www.arct.cam.ac.uk.
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