Is urban planner Omar Akbar trying to poison the historical memory of the most important design movement of the 20th century?
"Responds Akbar: "Bauhaus is an idea, not a style. I want to give it a voice for the 21st century."An irreverent, humorous urban planner, Akbar wants the new Bauhaus to effect social change. He has developed planning projects as far flung as the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the favelas of Rio de Janiero. His newest effort is an international building exhibition that he hopes will lead to the transformation of cities in the former East Germany, where planners are facing a new, severe problem of shrinking populations and empty buildings."
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