GERMAN EXPERIMENTS:

The Werkbund, The Bauhaus and Pre-War Mass Housing

DER DEUTSCHER WERKBUND

(The German Work Federation), 1907-1938
Bruno Taut, Glass Pavilion

A state-sponsored German association of architects, designers and industrialists, whose aim was to integrate traditional crafts and industrial mass-production techniques, and put Germany on a competitive level with England and the United States.

Peter Behrens, various AEG designs for household objects, early 1900s

Peter Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin, 1908-9

Peter Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin, 1908-9

Peter Behrens,AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin, 1908-9 The corner buttresses create a feeling of mass, although they are thin membranes supported on a frame.

Peter Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin, 1908-9

detail of rocker at the foot of each column

Walter Gropius, Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, 1911-12

Walter Gropius, Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, 1911-12

Walter Gropius, Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, 1911-12

Walter Gropius, Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, 1911-12

Peter Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin, 1908-9

Walter Gropius, Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine, 1911-12

Walter Gropius and Adolph Meyer, Model Factory for Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne, 1914

Walter Gropius and Adolph Meyer, Model Factory for Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne, 1914

Bruno Taut, Glass Pavilion Walter Gropius and Adolph Meyer, Model Factory for Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne, 1914 office building

DAS STAATLICHES BAUHAUS

(THE STATE BUILDING SCHOOL), 1919-1932
Weimar: 1919-1925; Dessau: 1925-1932

Weimar Bauhaus Students, 1919 The Bauhaus emerged as the union of: 1. 2. The Academy of Fine Arts Applied Arts School

Weimar Bauhaus Educational Program, 1919

history of art? history of architecture?

Weimar Bauhaus, cabinet making workshop

Weimar Bauhaus, pottery workshop

Weimar Bauhaus, 1923 exhibition of products for sale

Weimar Bauhaus, metal workshop

Johannes Itten (color teacher at the Bauhaus) in clothing designed by himself

Abstract Rhythm study from the Itten Studio, 1921

Material study from the Itten Studio, 1921

Material study from the Itten Studio, 1921 Movement study from the Bauhaus Preliminary Course

Color & Form Studies from the Kandinsky seminar, 1921

Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Optical Color Mixer (toy), early 1920s

Laszlo Moholy- Nagy, teacher at The Bauhaus

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Light and Space Modulator, (sculpture), 1930

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jealousy, (photo-collage), 1928

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Berlin Radio Tower, (photograph), 1928

Joost Schmidt, Bauhaus Exhibition Poster, 1923

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Bauhaus Books book cover, 1924

Josef Hartwig, The Bauhaus Chess Set, 1924

Walter Gropius, Chair, 1920

Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Table Lamp, 1924 (made)

Marianne Brandt, Ashtray, 1924

typography by Herbert Bayer Walter Gropius, The Bauhaus, Dessau, 1926

Walter Gropius, The Bauhaus, Dessau, 1926

Walter Gropius, The Bauhaus, Dessau, 1926

Walter Gropius, The Bauhaus, Dessau, 1926 administration bridge

Walter Gropius, The Bauhaus, Dessau, 1926 workshop wing

Walter Gropius, The Bauhaus, Dessau, 1926 view out of the workshops

Walter Gropius, The Bauhaus, Dessau, 1926 cafeteria

Walter Gropius, The Bauhaus, Dessau, 1926 dormitory

Marcel Breuer, Club Chair, 1925

Marcel Breuer, Nesting Tables, 1925

Walter Gropius, Shelves, 1926

Mies van der Rohe, Chair, 1926

Hannes Meyer, Director of The Dessau Bauhaus (1928-1930): Building is only organization: social organization, technical organization, economic organization, mental organization.

Cartoon of Hannes Meyer by Adolf Hofmeister, after his 1930 dismissal by the Mayor of Dessau: From Bauhaus to Moscow. Watch out architecture!

Iwao Yamawaki (Bauhaus Student), Attack on the Bauhaus, 1932

PUBLIC HOUSING IN PRE-WORLD WAR II GERMANY

Ernst May, Praunheim Siedlung, Frankfurt, 1926-28 Siedlung = neighborhood or housing estate

Ernst May, Praunheim Siedlung, Frankfurt, 1927

Walter Gropius, Trten Siedlung Dessau, 1930

The Assembly Line

Walter Gropius, Trten Siedlung Dessau, 1930

Walter Gropius, Trten Siedlung Dessau, 1930

Walter Gropius, Trten Siedlung Dessau, 1930

Ernst May, Romerstadt Siedlung, Frankfurt, 1930

Ernst May, Romerstadt Siedlung, Frankfurt, 1930

Ernst May, Romerstadt Siedlung, Frankfurt, 1930

Margarete Schtte-Lihotzky, The Frankfurt Kitchen in Ernst Mays Romerstadt Siedlung, Frankfurt, 1930

Margarete Schtte-Lihotzky, The Frankfurt Kitchen in Ernst Mays Romerstadt Siedlung, Frankfurt, 1930

Margarete Schtte-Lihotzky, Girls High School (Annex), Ankara, 1938

Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner, Hufeisen Siedlung (Horseshoe Estate), Berlin, 1925-1931

Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner, Hufeisen Siedlung (Horseshoe Estate), Berlin, 1925-1931

Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner, Hufeisen Siedlung (Horseshoe Estate), Berlin, 1925-1931

Ebenezer Howard, Garden City Concept, 1898

Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner, Hufeisen Siedlung (Horseshoe Estate), Berlin, 1925-1931

Otto Bartning, Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun, Hugo Hring, and Fred Forbt, Siemensstadt Siedlung, Berlin, 1930

block by Otto Bartning

block by Hans Scharoun

Otto Bartning, Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun, Hugo Hring, and Fred Forbt, Siemensstadt Siedlung, Berlin, 1930

block by Hugo Hring

block by Walter Gropius

Otto Bartning, Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun, Hugo Hring, and Fred Forbt , Siemensstadt Siedlung, Berlin, 1930

Weissenhof Siedlung, Stuttgart, 1927 Built for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition of 1927, it consisted of twenty-one buildings (60 dwellings), designed by sixteen European, mostly German, architects: Peter Behrens, Victor Bourgeois, Richard Dcker, Walter Gropius, Josef Frank, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, Hans Poelzig, Adolf Rading, Hans Scharoun, Adolf Gustav Schneck, Mart Stam, Bruno Taut, Max Taut.

Weissenhof Siedlung, Stuttgart, 1927 BLUE = preserved / restored; RED = destroyed

Weissenhof Siedlung, Stuttgart, 1927

Le Corbusier, buildings for Weissenhof Siedlung, Stuttgart, 1927

Hans Scharoun, house for the Weissenhof Siedlung, Stuttgart, 1927

J.J.P. Oud, row housing for the Weissenhof Siedlung, Stuttgart, 1927

Mies van der Rohe, apartment building for the Weissenhof Siedlung, Stuttgart, 1927