From June 15, the Bauhaus Trinkhalle reopens. The small Drinking Hall designed by Edgar Ludwig in 1932 based on ideas of Mies van der Rohe, director of the school of Dessau at that time. Along with the rehabilitation of Masters’ House settlement in 2014, this kiosk was restored, opening its doors now for the summer.

84 years after its construction, the Bauhaus' Drinking Hall reopens, after the restoration works iniciated in the Masters' House settlement to which it belongs. Drawn by the architect Eduard Ludwig based on ideas from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, It can now be visited in Dessau since last Wednesday 15th June.

Description of the project by Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

La Trinkhalle (Drinking Hall) was built at the Sieben Säulen crossing in Dessau, directly at the Masters’ House settlement, in 1932. The white structure with the distinctive roof projected from the wall that bordered the Bauhaus masters’ residential sector to the east. The idea came from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but it was drawn by his student Eduard Ludwig. The kiosk served as a “refreshment hall” and probably just offered non-alcoholic beverages – there have been references to fruit and vegetable juices. Due to the world economic crisis, public building activity came to a standstill for the most part and the Drinking Hall remained the only structure built by Mies van der Rohe in Dessau as a result.

Even though the Drinking Hall initially survived the war without any damage, it was torn down around 1970 when the GDR required space for the new design of the streets. The return of the Drinking Hall to its original site has been planned within the scope of the urban repair of the Masters’ House settlement in which the Gropius and Moholy-Nagy houses will be reconstructed.

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Eduard Ludwig (student), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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Meisterhäuser Dessau. Ebertallee 59. 06846 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany.
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Former Kiosk, 1932. From June 15th 2016. Opening hours.- Friday – Sunday 11 am – 6 pm (during the summer).
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Eduard Ludwig learned the craft of carpentry at his father’s workshop. After his apprenticeship, he attended the Technical College of Applied Arts in Blankenburg (Harz). After studies at the Academy for Applied Arts, he came to the Bauhaus Dessau for the winter semester of 1928/29. Under director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, he became one of the favourite students. He also completed his diploma with the director. In 1931, Mies gave him the assignment of drawing a design for the renovation of the Borchardt clothing store. The glass building with the filigree grid facade that was just elongated by narrow ceiling edges was never constructed. In 1932, Ludwig drew the design for the Kiosk that protruded from one of the bordering walls of the Dessau Master’s House Settlement. It was to be the only structure that the third and last Bauhaus director realised in Dessau.

Eduard Ludwig remained connected with Mies until 1937, and later established his own office. After the war, he received a professorship at the Academy for Fine Arts, participated in 1946 in the Berlin Plant exhibition with an award-winning group of courtyard houses and created airy and comfortable atrium houses for various sizes of families in Berlin’s Hansa quarter in1957. His Airlift Monument in front of the Berlin-Tempelhof Airport has become an icon. After Ludwig’s accidental death in 1960, the architect Karl Otto completed his design for the Lutheran Martinus Church in Berlin-Tegel in 1967.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born in Aquisgran the 27th of Marz of 1886 and died in Chicago the 17th of August of 1969. He was active in Germany, from 1908 to 1938, when he moved to USA and where he was until his death. He was also considerate a “master” of the Modern Movement, since the 50s, and he was one of the fathers of this movement with Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Mies van der Rohe, who in his childhood was guided by masters as Hendrik Petrus Berlage or Peter Behrens, he always kept tabs of the Villlet-Le-Duc’s rationalism or Karl Friedrich Schinkel eclectic classicism, having a strong connection with the architectural historicism. As he said in his manifesto “Baukunst und Zeiwille” about this: “it is not possible to move on looking back”.

In 1900 he began to work with his father in the stone workshop of the family and shortly afterward he move to Berlin to work with Bruno Paul in 1902, designing furniture. He planned his first house in 1907, the “Riehl House” in Neubabelsbers and worked from 1908 to 1911 in Peter Behrens’s studio. There he was influenced by structural technics and designs based on steel and glass, as the AEG project in Berlin. While he was in Behrens’s studio he designed the Perls House.

In 1912 he openned his own studio and projected a house in The Hague for Kröller-Müller marriage. The studio received few jobs in its first years, but Mies, contrary to architects as Le Corbusier, in his first years he already showed an architectural policy to follow, being an architect that changed little his architectural philosophy. To his epoch belonged the Heertrasse House and Urbig House as his principal projects.

In 1913 se move to the outskirts of Berlin with his wife Ada Bruhn with whom he would have three kids. The family broke up when Mies was posted to Romania during the World War I.

In 1920, Ludwig Mies changed his surname to Mies van der Rohe and in 1922 he joined as member to the “Novembergruppe”. One year later, in 1923, he published the magazine “G” with Doesburg Lisstzky and Rechter. During this period he worked in two houses, the Birck House and the Mosler House. In 1926, Mies van der Rohe held the post of chief commissioner of the German Werkbund exhibition, being his president this year. In this period he projected the Wolf House in Guden and the Hermann Lange House in Krefeld and in 1927, he met the designer Lilly Reich, in the house exhibition of Weissenhof, where he was director, and he planned a steel structure block for her.

In 1929, he received the project the German National Pavilion to the International Exhibition of Barcelona) rebuilt in 1986=, where he included the design of the famous Barcelona Chair.

In 1930, he planned in Brün – present Czech Republic -, the Tugendhat Villa. He managed the Dessau’s Bauhaus until his closure in 1933. The Nazism forced Mies to emigrate to the United States in 1937. He was designated chair of the Architecture department in Armour Institute in 1938, the one that later merged with the Lewis Institute, forming the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and where he took the responsibility to build a considerable extent of the foundations of the Intitute from 1939 and 1958. One of the buildings of this complex is the Crown Hall, IIT (1950-1956).

In 1940, he met the person who would be his partner until his death, Lora Marx. He became citizen of the USA in 1944 and, one year later, he began with the Farnsworth House’s project (1945-1950). During this stage, in 1948, he designed his first skyscraper: the two towers of the Lake Drive Apartments in Chicago, which were finished in 1951. Shortly after, he planned other building of this typology, the Commonwealth Promenade Apartments, from 1953 to 1956.

In 1958 he projected his most important work: the Segram Building in New York. This building has 37 storeys, covered with glass and bronze, which built and planned with Philip Johnson. He retired from the Illinois Institute of Technology the same year. He also built more towers and complexes as: the Toronto Dominion Centre (1963-1969) and the Westmount Square (1965-1968) and designed the New Square and Office Tower of The City of London (1967).

From 1962 to 1968, he built the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which would be his last legacy to the architecture. The building that rose as exhibition hall is made of steel, glass and granite.

He died in Chicago the 17th of August if 1969 leaving behind a large legacy and influence to next generations.

The Mies van der Rohe’s most famous sentences are “Less is more” and “God is in the details”.
 

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