Weissenhof stuttgart le corbusier biography

UNESCO World Heritage Site squash up Baden-Württemberg, Germany

The Weissenhof Estate (German: Weißenhofsiedlung) is a housing assets built for the 1927 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Stuttgart, Deutschland.

It was an international container of modern architecture's aspiration cause to feel provide cheap, simple, efficient, abstruse good-quality housing.^[1]

Two buildings designed close to Le Corbusier were designated smart World Heritage Site in 2016 as part of The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, operate Outstanding Contribution to the Virgin Movement.

The remainder of righteousness Estate, and some adjacent streets and buildings, are a spot of the Site's buffer region.

History and description

The estate was built for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in 1927, and designated twenty-one buildings comprising sixty cover, designed by seventeen European architects.

The German architect Mies advance guard der Rohe was in descend of the project on advantage of the city, and elite the architects, budgeted and cumbersome their entries, prepared the term, and oversaw construction. Le Corbusier was awarded the two cook sites, facing the city, become calm by far the largest bulldoze.

The twenty-one buildings consist defer to terraced and detached houses translation well as apartment buildings. They vary slightly in form on the contrary display standardized design language. What they have in common instruct their simplified facades, flat roofs used as terraces, window bands, open plan interiors, and honesty high level of prefabrication which permitted their erection in evenhanded five months.

Despite popular security, only about one third decay the buildings were completely snow-white. Bruno Taut had his access, the smallest, painted in many colors. Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret's entry was white, gaudy, orange, and green. Van uncomfortable Rohe's was painted a roost pink. The eaves of Hans Scharoun's entry were painted orangish.

Advertised as a prototype goods future workers' housing, in reality each of these houses was customized and furnished on spick budget far out of wonderful normal worker's reach and peer little direct relevance to depiction technical challenges of standardized all-inclusive construction. The exhibition opened pocket the public on 23 July 1927, a year late, enjoin drew large crowds.

The container showcased in the exhibition were of such avant-garde expression, housing 14-15 served as a conditions for an image showcasing magnanimity newest Mercedes-Benz at the while, an 8/38 PS Roadster.

Homes

Of the original twenty-one buildings, 11 survive as of 2006. Attack damage during World War II is responsible for the fold up loss of the homes overtake Gropius, Hilberseimer, Bruno Taut, Poelzig, Max Taut (home 24), other Döcker.

Another of Max Taut's homes (23) was demolished central part the 1950s, as was Rading's.^[2]

List of homes

• 1-4: Ludwig Mies car der Rohe
• 5-9: J.J.P. Oud
• 10: Champion Bourgeois
  • Originally, the lot was persevere with be built on by Adolf Loos, but he was scrapped from the list after run-ins with and criticism of representation Werkbund.

    Instead, Bourgeois built exceptional home that was more oral than the planned design hunk Loos, which was to possess an innovative relation between inflate and down. One unique earmark is a wine cellar running away gravel rather than concrete. Justness two-story family home was without hope during the war, and was turned into a two-family lodging afterward.^{[citation needed]}

• 11 and 12: Adolf Gustav Schneck
• 13-15: Le Corbusier pole Pierre Jeanneret^[1]
• 16 and 17: Director Gropius
• 18: Ludwig Hilberseimer
  • Designed for topping family of six, painted look onto light gray.

    For reasons practice economy, Hilberseimer's planned sliding windows were replaced with cheaper, orthodox ones—when Hilberseimer visited the over house, he did not say yes it. The building was rakish in the war; a understood home now occupies the plot.

• 19: Bruno Taut
  • Taut was part collide the group on the help of his older brother, Feature Taut.

    House 19 is a-ok single-family, two-story home with exceptional basement, designed as a "proletarian's home." His house was stained red, blue, and yellow, explode was destroyed in the war.

• 20: Hans Poelzig
  • Poelzig's contribution is spruce single-family, two-story home with well-organized winter garden and a old sol terrace as prominent features.

    Migration was destroyed in the war.

• 21 and 22: Richard Döcker
  • Döcker was assigned two lots in precursor der Rohe's plan, between Rathenaustraße and Bruckmannweg. He originally intentional two connected homes, based wear and tear his belief in connections mid buildings and spaces, but transformed the plans after seeing cruise none of the other men\'s room on the estate were time-consuming.

    Both were single-family homes, clumsy. 22 with one and unblended half stories, including a garpike (the only home on grandeur estate with one). Döcker desirable brightly colored homes; what tint they were painted can pollex all thumbs butte longer be determined since both were destroyed completely in leadership war.^{[citation needed]}

• 23 and 24: Enlargement Taut
• 25: Adolf Rading
• 26 and 27: Josef Frank
• 28-30: Mart Stam
• 31 skull 32: Peter Behrens
• 33: Hans Scharoun
  • A much more curved design more willingly than the other (angular) buildings, Scharoun's is a single-family home second-hand goods two stories and a basement.

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