Weissenhofsiedlung
Subtitle: Experimental Housing Built for the Deutscher Werkbund, Stuttgart 1927
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges GmbH
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9783936681604
Subjects: Architecture, domestic, germany; Architecture, modern, 20th century
Description: The fundamental significance of the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart for the history of early modern architecture should not be underestimated. Almost all the influential architects of the 20th century built their proposed solutions in response to the theme "a home for modern city dwellers" on the beautifully located slope on the north side of Stuttgart. The choice of architects and the fact that a project of this type could be implemented at all so few years after World War I and the inflation, is one of the outstanding characteristics of this building exhibition. How did this project ever come to Stuttgart, anyway? What made it possible was a favorable constellation of both personnel and chronological circumstances. Gustaf Stotz must be regarded as the project's initiator. It was he who managed to fire up the enthusiasm of the leadership of the German Werkbund and of the city about the project. It is also thanks to him that Mies van der Rohe undertook to be its artistic director.