The appearance of style-defining modernist buildings and estates, shaped by the requirements of modern societies, industrial building materials and technologies, shows how color and form can be planned as a unit even today in the design process.
From color theory to color teaching
The symposium is intended to provide an overview of the key teaching fields under the heading of color. Parallel to the scientific and applied color theories and systems that have been developed over the centuries, there have been repeated attempts in art, architecture and design to formulate pedagogies of designing with color. The best-known approaches can be found in Bauhaus pedagogy with representatives such as Klee, Itten and Albers, whose teaching approaches have been sufficiently researched, described and published.
By contrast, the pedagogical approaches at the Stuttgart Art Academy in the first half of the 20th century, which had a significant influence on many subsequent generations of artists and teachers, are less well known and have hardly been systematically researched. The 9th Dresden Color Forum will provide an insight into the history of color theory in the artistic design theory of Adolf Hölzel, Willy Baumeister and Fritz Seitz through lectures and exhibitions. The pedagogical panels by Willy Baumeister and works by Fritz Seitz will be discussed for the first time in this context. The historical background for the development of this pedagogy will be shown, its design and compositional principles presented and the influence of these schools on art, design and architecture up to the present day examined in order to ultimately debate the role of color in architecture in general.
Date/Place
Do 2nd + Fri July 3, 2015,
TU Dresden, Faculty of Architecture, Zellescher Weg 17, 01069 Dresden
Room 006 and Color Theory Collection.
