Welcome to Global Design, 2010- the arc107 Global Design seminar of Miami University, Department of Architecture and Interior Design. We are exploring the role and influence of design—especially architecture, interior design, urban design and landscape design—on people and environments within a contemporary global context. We are looking at how factors as geography, climate, culture, society, economics, politics, aesthetics, and technology are intrinsically interwoven in the making of the built environment.

And where do we live? Miami University is in Oxford, Ohio, in North America. Miami University is named after the Myaamia people who are indigenous to the landscape of Mid-West (North) America.

We- as members of arc107 Global Design- are eclectic travelers, and hope that you will connect with us to share and inform our travels.

Thank you for coming along on this blog!

Saturday, March 13, 2010


For my design project I decided to travel to Germany (particularly Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin) and study one of my favorite subjects, The Bauhaus 1919-1933. I wanted my main new source to be The New York Times because they have a fantastic Arts Section of their paper. It was discovered through my article, that perhaps one of the famous Bauhaus designers Franz Ehrlich was a designer for the Nazi's and helped them design the famous gate at the Buchenwald death camp that reads 'Jedem Das Seine'. After discovering the questionable career choice of one of the professors at the Bauhaus I decided to follow the other legendary Bauhaus figures such as Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius - which both moved to America and continued their architectural designing careers.

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