Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture he was born on the18 May 1883, in Berlin and died on the5 July 1969 in Boston.
Fagus Factory
Gropius was the first to put his Modernist ideas to work. In 1911, he and Adolf Meyer designed the Fagus factory, a glass and steel cubic building which pioneered modern architectural devices such as glass curtain walls, and was built from the floor plans of the more traditional industrial architect Eduard Werner.
The J.F.K Federal Building
At the brink of world war 2 Gropius emigrated to the USA and exposed them to the ways of modernist architecture and in the 1960s he designed the j f k federal building
Ernst May
Ernst May was a German architect and city planner. May successfully applied urban design techniques to the city of Frankfurt am Main during the Weimar Republic period, and in 1930 less successfully exported those ideas to Soviet Union cities, newly created under Stalinist rule. he was born on the 27th of July 1886 in Frankfurt and died on the 11th of September 1970 in hamburg
Ernst and his city planning
May was born in Frankfurt the son of a leather goods manufacturer. His education from 1908 through 1912 included time in the UK, studying under Raymond unwin, and absorbing the lessons and principles of the garden city movement
The Jig Jag Houses
The jig zag houses were another of Ernst's modernist housing ideas
The Rundling
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Bruno Taut
Bruno Julius Florian Taut was a renowned German architect, urban planner and author. He was active during the Weimar period and is known for his theoretical works as well as his building designs. he was born on the 4th of may 1880 in koingsberg and he died on the 24th of December 1938
The Glass Pavilion
The Glass Pavilion, was designed by Bruno taut and built in 1914, it was a glass dome structure. The structure was a brightly coloured landmark of the exhibition, constructed using concrete and glass.The dome had a double glass outer layer with coloured glass prisms on the inside and reflective glass on the outside. The facade had inlaid coloured glass plates that acted as mirrors. Taut described his "little temple of beauty"
