page_title: Peter Behrens
section_title: List of projects
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Behrens / List of projects
caption_attribution_description: Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung, Haus von Peter Behrens
context_page_description: Peter Behrens was a leading German architect and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s. He was a foundation member of the German Werkbund in 1907, when he also began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design, producing typefaces, objects, and buildings for the company. In the next few years, he became a successful architect, a leader of the rationalist / classical German Reform Movement of the 1910s. After WW1 he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid 1920s increasingly to New Objectivity. He was also an educator, heading the architecture school at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1922-1936. As a well known architect he produced design across Germany, in other European countries, Russia and England. Several of the leading names of European modernism worked for him when they were starting out in the 1910s, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.
context_section_description: 1900–1901: Behrens house on Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt
  1905–1907: Villa Obenauer in Saarbrücken
  1905–1908: Eduard Müller Crematorium in Hagen-Delstern
  1906: Interior design of the state and city library in the extension of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Düsseldorf
  1908–1909: AEG Turbine hall, Berlin-Moabit
  1908–1909: Schröder house in Hagen (destroyed in World War II)
  1909–1910: Catholic Fellowship House in Neuss
  1909-1910: Villa Cuno in Hagen
  1909-10: High Voltage Factory, AEG, Berlin - Humboldthain
  1910: Boathouse "Elektra" for the Berlin rowing company "Elektra" in Berlin-Oberschöneweide, founded in 1908 as a rowing club for employees and civil servants of the AEG
  1910: Exhibition hall (temporary wooden structure, named Hetzerhalle) for the German Railways with a span of 43 meters for the Brussels World Exhibition in 1910, built by the entrepreneur Otto Hetzer from Weimar
  1911: Gasworks Ost in Frankfurt am Main, Osthafen
  1911: AEG factory settlement in Hennigsdorf
  1911–1912: Mannesmann House in Düsseldorf
  1911–1912: German Embassy in Saint Petersburg
  1911–1912: House for government architect C. H. Goedecke in Hagen
  1911–1912: Wiegand house, home for the archaeologist and museum director Theodor Wiegand in Berlin-Dahlem, today the seat of the German Archaeological Institute
  1912: AEG Large Motors Factory, Berlin - Humboldthain
  1912–1914: Administration building of Continental AG in Hanover (extension 1919–1920), today the House of Economic Development
  1913: AEG Small Motors Factory, Berlin - Humboldthain
  1914: Frank & Lehmann office building in Cologne, 37 Unter Sachsenhausen
  1914–1917: Factory for the National Automobile Society (NAG) in Berlin-Oberschöneweide (later the factory for television electronics , called Peter-Behrens-Bau)
  1915: Wuhlheide forest settlement in Berlin-Karlshorst, Hegemeisterweg
  1918: Oberschöneweide settlement in Berlin (built 1919-21 to plans by others, Behrens only designed some single family houses)
  1919: Workers' and master craftsmen's settlement for Deutsche Werft AG in Hamburg-Finkenwerder
  1921–1925: Technical administration building of Hoechst AG in Frankfurt-Höchst
  1921–1925: Administration building of the Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen
  1925: Tomb for Friedrich Ebert in Heidelberg, in the mountain cemetery
  1925-1926: College of St. Benedict in Salzburg
  1926:'New Ways', Northampton, UK
  1927: Apartment house in the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart (lots 31 + 32)
  1928: Reconstruction of Feller-Stern department store, Ban Jelačić Square in Zagreb, Croatia
  1928–1929: U-Bahn stations, line U 8 in Berlin (Moritzplatz, Bernauer Straße, Voltastraße, designed 1912)
  1928-1930: Franz-Domes-Hof in Vienna - Margareten
  1929: Residence for Kurt Lewin in Berlin- Nikolassee , Waldsängerpfad 3
  1929–1930: Group of apartment buildings in Berlin- Westend , Bolivarallee 9
  1929-1931: Villa Gans in Kronberg im Taunus, Falkensteiner Straße 19, Hesse
  1929-1931: Synagogue in Žilina , Kuzmányho 1
  1929-1935: Tobacco factory in Linz (with Alexander Popp)
  1930–1932: Alexanderhaus and Berolinahaus at Alexanderplatz in Berlin
  1931: “Ring der Frauen” house at the German Building Exhibition in 1931 in Berlin-Charlottenburg (demolished)
  1932–1933: Hohenlanke house near Neustrelitz (planned as a separate retirement home, partially completed)
  1933–1951: Christ the King Church in Linz (with Alexander Popp , Hans Feichtlbauer and Hans Foschum)
caption: 'Weissenhof' apartment building, Stuttgart, 1927
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