Out of the Display Case: Concrete

The permanent exhibition at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau presents a concrete block that symbolises a new way of building. Like hundreds of others, this so-called slag concrete hollow block was produced and used directly on the construction site of Dessau-Törten Housing Estate. It stands for the beginnings of industrialised construction and the use of new building materials in the construction of modern buildings.

Walter Gropius used concrete in various ways. From the masonry compound in the Dessau-Törten Housing Estate, in the construction of the Masters’ Houses or for the reinforced concrete skeleton construction in the Bauhaus Building.

Based on this concrete block, the Head of the Construction Department, Dorothea Roos, and Peter Biewer, Associate in the Construction Department, present the use of concrete as a material using a series of examples from the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau.

Language: German