5 days during the week
from 21 until 26 September 2009
Location: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cinema and Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Conference languages: German/English
No registration needed

The conference will focus on the internationalisation, the network character of the avant-garde and the migration paths of the Bauhaus and examine the major questions: How did the Bauhaus achieve such a world-wide influence and become an exemplary institution? Who were the multipliers of the Bauhaus idea? What does the Bauhaus stand for today?

The speakers are leading architecture, art and design historians as well as art teachers, cultural scholars and historians from the USA, Japan, Russia, Korea, Hungary, Cuba, Germany, Israel, the Czech Republic, and Australia, who are engaged in the research of the history and influence of the Bauhaus.