Bauhaus Clouds Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

The Bauhaus as we know it did not exist. It is actually a complex of clichés, unilateral interpretations, ideological appropriations, misunderstandings, tendentious receptions, and historical narratives. Not surprisingly, it was celebrated as the most important art school of modernity’s heroic age, while simultaneously documenting quite the opposite: the degeneration of art and architecture in the age of capitalism. Bauhaus Clouds takes such approaches as a point of departure for action. On the one hand, it addresses the constructs of new narratives that place architectural archives at the center of the Bauhaus debates. It begins with the understanding that archives and architectural collections are neither crystallized nor neutral statements. On the other hand, it investigates the degree to which architectural narratives and measures affecting the idea of the Bauhaus have influenced social constructs of past experiences in the current process of architectural culture, as well as society’s relationship with building culture at large.