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At long last it’s OK to like postmodern architecture again. Why? Found out in the exhibition “Mission: Postmodern – Heinrich Klotz and the DAM Chamber of Marvels” at Frankfurt’s Deutsches Architekturmuseum.

On May 9, 2014 the exhibition “Mission: Postmodern” opens at Deutsches Architekturmuseum. Sophia Walk talked with Oliver Elser, the show’s curator, about Heinrich Klotz, his chamber of marvels, and postmodernism.

Following the hype about coffee, everyone is suddenly drinking tea. Which brought the teapot back into the designers’ sights. Small, plump and in the Japanese style, it was the shooting star at the Ambiente consumer goods fair in Frankfurt. We present the most stylish examples in a picture gallery.

The “Herbert Bayer: Berliner Jahre – Werbegrafik 1928 – 1938” show at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin presents the creative output of a designer who vacillated between Bauhaus ideals and currying favor with the Nazis.

At the moment, as part of the Van-de-Velde Year, Erfurt’s hosting an exhibition on architect and designer Peter Behrens. While there can be no doubting his status as the father of Modernism, in retrospect the one or other of his designs seems decidedly a product of its day.

The title evokes images of gleaming white houses in some far-flung exotic land filled with elegant tubular steel furniture. The first Bauhaus exhibition was certainly quite different in terms of appearance.

Despite the Nazis’ ostracism of Modernism, in the wake of World War II the Germans reassumed their role as trailblazers in industrial design almost immediately. A recently rediscovered “secret report” reveals how in 1946 the British secret service went on a mission to scent out the German consumer goods industry.

Her carpets and striped textiles are counted among the Bauhaus design icons, but there are very few who actually know the designer’s name. Now, an exhibition in Berlin will showcase Gertrud Arndt and her unusual works.

Simple elements that make planning and construction much easier – architects have been looking into the possibilities afforded by modular construction for quite some time now. What do these modules require in order to fulfill the basic functions of a living and working space and simultaneously remain adaptable in their implementation? The exhibition, “Architekturteilchen”, at Cologne Museum of Applied Art takes a closer look at this question.

As an historical institution Bauhaus may be known across the globe yet its profile remains unusually vague all the same. No wonder. After all there were three different colleges, in three different locations with three different directors. A new travel book now attempts to draw a detailed map of the school’s checkered history.

Bauhaus: Art as LifeMoMA: Ecstatic AlphabetsMunich: SonderfARTMAKK: Architecture particlesBasel: Jeff Koons

The exhibition "Building the Revolution" at Berlin's Martin Gropius Bau presents a range of Soviet art and architecture from the period 1915-35. The geometric idiom typical of these works lends the art an architectural feel as expressed in names such as "Painterly architecture".

London: Remote ControlMunich: Form Follows FashionBerlin: Architect of the RevolutionMoMA: Kraftwerk RetrospectivePictoplasma: Character Design

Scandinavian design is known for its clear forms, durability and careful craftsmanship. Do students from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland still design in accordance with these principles today? Juliane Grützner asked some of them.

Karlsruhe: Sound ArtBerlin: Chairs without legsDelft: The Essence of CoolBerlin: Art and PressBoston: The Allure of Japan

MoMA: Millennium MagazinesEins Extra: Finding forms through dialogIDD congress: Method to the madnessBerlin: Art from Los Angeles 1950 to 1980Herford: 5th Recycling Design Prize

In a special exhibition the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin is presenting images of a 350-year-old imperial villa in Kyoto. Although this may sound somewhat contradictory at first, one look at Yasuhiro Ishimoto's austerely composed photographs and any such misgivings disappear into thin air.

Designers are continually designing and developing new chairs. So is it really necessary for architects to also try their hand at furniture design? And are the objects possibly merely miniatures of their architecture? “Von Aalto bis Zumthor: Architektenmöbel” (From Aalto to Zumthor: Furniture by architects) in the Cologne Museum of Applied Art is a show that proves this is definitely not the case.

Domotex: "Customized Living"Swissbau: Sustainable BuildingBauhaus Archive: Villa KatsuraVitra Design Museum: Green DesignDMY Berlin: Apply now!

New Year’s Eve in Helsinki the design capital Studio for special tasks The Ego in the iPhone Walter Gropius in neighboring Poland