“More than the Sum of Its Parts”: Living and Working Together in Modern Times With Thorsten Nagelschmidt

Architecture shapes all our paths: we live in houses and flats and are constantly surrounded by architecture, especially in cities. How we live, work and share space says a great deal about us as a society. It is therefore hardly surprising that the architects of modernism developed new and progressive ideas about how communities might live together. At the Bauhaus, too, some radical concepts emerged, often closely linked to political aspirations.

In this episode, we speak with musician and author Thorsten Nagelschmidt about architecture and community, about connections between the Bauhaus and the “Plattenbau”, about the possibilities offered by the collective, about shared living and working such as in the band Muff Potter, and about how political art should actually be.