Lucius Burkhardt stands on the table of Weimar Jacobskirche and says. This is June 1994, at the invitation of the student pastor, he is invited to preserve the “sermon”. He has just completed his work as the dean of the New Design Faculty of Bauhaus University in Weimar.
“There is simply no new Bauhaus!” He postulates with reference to the school of art and design, founded in 1919 in the same place in Walter Gropius. He is engaged in the “masters” of architectural modernism and their large projects developed on the drawing board – against Oscar Nimeyers Brazilia and Le Corbuzer Chandigarch.
He also condemns the principle of the “pure solution” of the European post -wave building, its demolition and “maximum interventions” in the city that organized urban coexistence, simply engineering. Moreover, contrary to any stability.
Two games of reason, one attitude
Two rational games are characterized from his sermon. The first thought – “I do not get along without this narrative, but I do not think that it goes far” – belongs to Marxism, the second place to Christianity: “The resurrection can not believe in it.”
“Thinking – 100 years Lucius and Annemari Burkhardt “Library of Basel University, until August 13, 2025
Read more about the Congress in the Cash Register: Lucius Burkhardt Convention: Lucius-Burkhardt.org.
Neither the Marxist nor the believing Christian was an intellectual who died in 2003 – but he is still a holy column. The fourth edition of the “Convention of Lucius Burkhardt”, which recently took place at the University of Cassel’s Arts, once again showed this. Reinhard Franz, teacher at the University of Bauhaus Weimar, brought the film to the cassel with a sermon. This is the only existing film about the complete lecture of Berkhardt. The reason for the Convention of this year: Berkhardt this year would be 100 years old.
Martin Schmitz invited the university in design students. Schmitz was a student in Burkhardt, who taught there from 1973 to 1997 as a professor of socio -economy city systems. Being the current owner of Professor Lucius and Annemari Burkhardt, Schmitz is published in his other life.
The science of a walk
Publications with the works of Burkhardt are one of the most famous of its little Berlin publisher. The research concepts of Burkhardt, such as the “science of walking” or the name, as “Why is the landscape beautiful?” Or the “smallest possible intervention” has long been a classic critical planning and design theory.
In his text, “Design is invisible” since 1980, for example, Berkhardt described that the design is not only a visible design of objects, but also deeply connected with invisible social, cultural and organizational structures, with power relations and legislative procedures.
Burkhardt represented an approach to relational planning and, thus, moved far from the long prevailing idea of a “good shape”. Their design principles were formed by the German Verkbund in the 1950s, which Berkhardt later became a member of the board of directors.
Incoming design digitization
Today, since algorithmic processes are increasingly included in the design, its approach to relational planning is becoming even more interesting. Congress in Kassel could benefit from raising Berkhart issues. Nevertheless, one of them mainly chose a look at the story: for example, the artist Wolfgang Muller said how he was the first to show the Berkhardt herring about the landscape in Burkhardt in his former Kruzberg gallery, and another conversation about city campaigns in Rome.
Thus, this was felt in the 1990s, when the situation and psychogeography were again more re -open. It would be interesting to hear, the text of Berkhardt “Who plans planning?” With modern AI and the city development “What plans to plan?” can be moved.
The lecture by Ann Brandl, Anett Freitag and Caspar Sherr about “Aglovat” were compiled to the last. They asked the question: when employees of different administrations go through landscapes and metropolitan areas in which they make decisions on planning, can new prospects for their design? Can Aggloves change the work of public administration in such a way that they consider themselves a “curator of aesthetic care for the city landscape”? Such issues are currently creating the ideas of Burkhardt.
Special anniversary expenses
You can currently deepen the world of thoughts in the world of Burkhardt: magazine The construction world A special issue has just released, earlier this year, the thematic edition of the Swiss magazine Work, building + lifeWhose editor -for -chief burckhardt was from 1962 to 1972.
The exhibition in the library of Basel University is connected with it. It also emphasizes the role of artist Annemari Burkhardt, women of Lucius. They were a team. Like Lucius, who came from the upper middle class of Basel, she longed for her class and against the post -conducted routes of car planning and fought with meaningless snakes, such as the Basel of the Theater of the Old City. Without success: it was blown up in 1975.
