• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Bauhaus Hausfraus: Gender Formation in Design Education
  • Beteiligte: Ray, Katerina Rüedi
  • Erschienen: The MIT Press, 2001
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), 55 (2001) 2, Seite 73-80
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 1046-4883; 1531-314X
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  • Beschreibung: This essay examines the crisis of masculinity at the Bauhaus and links it to a broader crisis in patriarchy after the First World War. Bauhaus reminiscences and depictions of Bauhaus students and buildings in the catalog of the 1938 MoMA Bauhaus exhibition show a re-enactment of war trauma in Bauhaus theatre and festivals. These and other experiments led to radical and subsequently conservative revisions of masculine identity. The paper suggests that the construction of a new disciplinary identity through institutional and media reproduction rather than its economically limited innovations in mass production forms the real legacy of the Bauhaus for the twentieth century. The essay draws heavily on personal statements by Bauhaus students and masters, and juxtaposes these with theoretical analyses of masculine formation. This technique at least in part allows for the theorists and historical subjects to speak for themselves.