The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector

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The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal ConnectorKonrad Wachsmann played an exceptional role among modern architects in helping to industrialise architecture and fostering the potential this contained for an architectural turn. Wachsmanns universal wedge connector, invented in the shadow of World War II and applied in the General Panel System in collaboration with Walter Gropius in the US in 1941, was the point of departure for the Bauhaus Lab 2018. The postgraduate program investigated the

and crowd sourcing) the book distills Oglander's project down from a diffuse cloud of images-of-objects-that-cast-images

the second book in the series KW POCKET

Human and celestial forms intermingle and intermesh

more than we mean to

roads and houses

It unites their different perspectives on the challenges and explores alternatives to the plentitude of discarded garments buried in landmasses

Hilton uses the two-way design of the playing card as the basis for the series’ double-meanings and double-readings

which van Joolen has then complemented with pieces of second-hand and no-brand clothing

and it contains contributions by Antti ‘Eze’ Eskelinen

depicting misshapen subjects from hobo clowns and scarecrows to animals with a human frame

James Hoff is an artist living and working in Brooklyn

it speaks differently but directly to the challenges that define our times: social inequality