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Updating modernism – Zlatko Haban and Matthias Hillner

In 2006 the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invited architects

and designers to submit ideas for redevelopment of the

existing Bauhaus school (Gropius House) site. Architect

Zlatko Haban and Matthias Hillner joined forces in order

to produce the design of an exhibition pavilion. The pavilion,

a tribute to the original building, was designed around the

structure of the word ‘modernism’ in Hillner’s Cubico font.

Depending on the viewing angle the word would be more

or less legible. Visitors would be able to enter the pavilion

and walk through the letters to view the exhibits. The

project was exhibited in Weimar in April 2006.

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