EINFACH GEBAUT!

OPENING
April 30, 2026, 7:00 p.m.

EXHIBITION
DATES May 1 – June 28, 2026

OPENING
HOURS Wed–Sun, 3–8 p.m.

CLOSING
RECEPTION June 25, 2016, 7:00 p.m.

The exhibition presents the arcaded apartment buildings constructed by the Bauhaus Dessau in 1930 as a design concept of great relevance today. The designs responded to requirements that are still placed on housing construction today: simple construction, affordable housing, and adequate comfort for all. Realized under the direction of Hannes Meyer with the help of students, they followed the motto “People’s needs rather than luxury needs.” These adaptable rental apartment buildings are characterized by a clear structure. Their understated design allowed for amenities that met high hygienic and technical standards despite low rents. The exhibition places the buildings within their political, social, and economic contexts and recreates a section of a building within the exhibition space.

EINFACH GEBAUT! allows visitors to directly experience the functionalist organization of the arcaded apartment buildings and invites them to discover the inspiration these buildings offer for sustainable housing construction today.

A project by Jens-Uwe Fischer and Samuel Korn (University of Kassel), Jakob Gebert and Johanna Schäfer (Kassel Art Academy), supported by Laura Holzberg and Alissia Hoffmann (DAZ).

The exhibition was created during the 2025–26 winter semester as part of a Design-Build project by the University of Kassel and the Kassel Art Academy in collaboration with the following students: Baylasan Al Zaed, Justin Michael Delor, Marie-Luise Fichtner, Jonas Gärtner, Vera Gebauer, Ogie Jamore Ikponmwonba, Jonas Jonik, Negin Khawari, Colin Yannik Enrique Lacmann, Anabel Libert, Mani Lotfi, Michael Lüpke, Pina Mohr, Angelina Nickel, Ida Reuter, Luisa Scheibelhut, Lukas Schröder, Max Stadler, Lea Stein, Juliette Elisabeth Toellner, Olivia Völlnagel, Marie-Josephine Wannenmacher.

Accompanying the exhibition, *Bauhaus baut. Laubenganghäuser in Dessau-Törten* is being published in the *Bauhaus Taschenbuch* series (No. 32) by Spector Books, Leipzig. In addition, the audio walking tour of the arcaded houses, created during the 2024–25 winter semester, is available online.

The exhibition, audio walking tour, and paperback are based on research findings by Philipp Oswalt, Andreas Buss, and Anne Stengel from the project *The Arcaded Houses in Dessau-Törten* (316920114) at the University of Kassel, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). A comprehensive report on the overall findings of the research project will be published as a series of open-access e-books by Kassel University Press.