Erich Mendelsohn was a major architect of the 20th century. Best known are his works of the 1920s, which can best be described as expressionist and organic. Many of his sketches and realised construction projects make him a pioneer of streamline modernism.
Mossehaus
Mossehaus is an office building on 18–25 Schützenstrasse in Berlin, renovated and with a corner designed by Erich Mendelsohn between 1921 and 1923.
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolf Georg Gropius war ein deutscher Architekt und Gründer des Bauhauses. Neben Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright und Le Corbusier gilt er als Mitbegründer der Modernen Architektur.
Gropius House
The Gropius House was the family residence of architect Walter Gropius at 68 Baker Bridge Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts. It is now a historic house museum, owned by Historic New England, and is open to the public.
Bruno taut Housing Community
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Einstein tower
The Einstein Tower is an astrophysical observatory in the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam, Germany built by architect Erich Mendelsohn. It was built on the summit of the Potsdam Telegraphenberg to house a solar telescope designed by the astronomer Erwin Finlay-Freundlich.
Glass pavilion
The Glass Pavilion, designed by Bruno Taut and built in 1914, was a prismatic glass dome structure at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition. The structure was a brightly coloured landmark of the exhibition, constructed using concrete and glass.
Fagus Factory
The Fagus pencil case Factory, a shoe last factory in Alfeld on the Leine, Lower Saxony, Germany, is an important example of early modern architecture.
Bruno Taut
The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. The Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
Bauhaus school
The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicised and taught. The Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
