Society With Inken Baller

In the third episode of About Bauhaus, the focus is on “society” – and on the question of how architecture reflects social ideals. At the Bauhaus, building was not an end in itself, but an expression of a social ethos: affordable housing, functional design and communal living were central to its collective thinking. But how exactly was architecture’s social responsibility understood, and how was it put into practice?

In conversation with Berlin-based architect Inken Baller, who has been actively shaping social housing for decades, Adriana Kapsreiter explores the concept of “New Building” and asks about the social ideas of the Bauhaus practitioners. In Inken Baller’s apartment in Berlin-Neukölln, the two discuss architectural visions of the past and the continuing relevance of socially responsible building today.