The Bauhaus and Harvard

February 8, 2019–July 28, 2019
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Bauhaus exhibit is definitely worth checking out!

 Walter Gropius, who would become a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, founded the Bauhaus movement in Germany and ensured that much of its output would have a final home at the University. An exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums features that material.

Read More:https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/bauhaus-exhibit-showcases-influential-art-movement-as-it-celebrates-centennia/

Image: Herbert Bayer, Design for a Multimedia Trade Fair Booth, 1924. Opaque watercolor, charcoal and touches of graphite with collage of cut printed and colored papers on off-white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the artist, BR48.101. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Facade Longevity: Restoring Wood Storefront at Wellesley College's Jewett Arts Center by Paul Rudolph (1958)

Presentation by docomomo-US/New England

Monday February 11, 2019, 6-8 pm. BSA Space, 290 Congress St., Boston, MA

While the talk is about a college building, it is more applicable generally to modern period houses, which tend to have wood windows.

A presentation will be given by Marie S.A. Sorensen, AIA, President, Sorensen Partners | Architects + Planners, Inc. on Paul Rudolph's Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, completed in 1958, is an iconic mid-century modern building - Rudolph's first large-scale work and arguably the first collegiate "arts center" complex combining music and art in a single building. Following the guidelines of a Getty-sponsored conservation plan for the building published in 2017, incremental improvements are being undertaken on the building. Wood storefront enclosing the building's music library is a current priority. The music library is suspended over the Academic Quad on a concrete slab with wide brick panels punctuated by 13-foot high oriel windows spanned by clerestory. Sixty years of weather on this northeast facade with a four-inch concrete brow has caused significant portions of the pine storefront to deteriorate. Sorensen, who was OPM on the conservation plan, will present her firm's technical and methodological preservation analysis of the options available for restoration and replacement, reflecting input from preservation experts and restoration contractors.

We look forward to further discussion and debate of this preservation challenge, and to sharing this analysis with owners and architects facing similar technical issues.

RSVP to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 10 AM on Monday February 11 if you plan to attend.

Open to the public, and if people are late to R.S.V.P that is no problem.