Architecture experts from around the world will participate in a symposium on the influential Bauhaus design movement at Southern Polytechnic State University on October 24-26.  Titled “The Bauhaus Legacy: Myth, Reality & Reevaluation,” Southern Polytechnic’s School of Architecture, Civil Engineering Technology and Construction is hosting the event in the school’s Architecture building.

International presenters include:

• Dr. Rudolf Luckmann; The Hochscule Anhalt, Dessau, Germany.
• Dr. Lu Yili; The China Academy of Arts Shanghai Institute of Design, Shanghai, China.
• Dr. Norbert Schmitz; Muthesius-Hochscule fur Gestaltung, Keil, Germany.
• Maria Ocon Fernandez; The Institute of Art History of the Free University, Berlin, Germany.
• Louis Wallis, Ian Clayton, John Hall & Dr. Andras Kelly; University of Tasmania, Launceston Tasmania, Australia.

Staatliches Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 and the school’s workshops became the birthplace of new industrial designs, creating one of the most important design movements of the twentieth century.  The school’s basic ideologies were to integrate art and technology for the benefit of both disciplines.

Southern Polytechnic State University is a member of the University System of Georgia and is the only public institution in Georgia to offer a nationally accredited Bachelor of Architecture degree.  The school addresses the professional workforce needs of many of the nation’s fastest growing fields by offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the sciences, technologies and engineering.