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The Weissenhof Estate (or Weissenhof Settlement; in German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 Weißenhofsiedlung) is an estate
Housing estate

A housing estate is a group of buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Accordingly, a housing estate is usually built by a single contractor, with only a few styles of house or building design, so they tend to be uniform in appearance....
 of working class
Working class

Working class is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe, depending on context and speaker, those employed in specific fields or types of work....
 housing
Housing

Housing may refer to:* Houses* Federal Housing Administration* Enclosure , containing some equipment or mechanism...
 which was built in Stuttgart
Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
 in 1927. It was an international showcase of what later became known as the International style
International style

International style may refer to:*International style , the early 20th century modern movement in architecture*International style , the International style in medieval art...
 of modern architecture
Modern architecture

Modern architecture is a set of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of Ornament ....
.

The estate was built for the Deutscher Werkbund
Deutscher Werkbund

The Deutscher Werkbund was a Germany association of artists, architects, designers, and industrialists. The Werkbund was to become an important event in the development of modern architecture and industrial design, particularly in the later creation of the Bauhaus school of design....
 exhibition of 1927
1927 in architecture

The year 1927 in architecture involved some significant events....
, and included twenty-one buildings comprising sixty dwellings, designed by sixteen European architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
s, most of them German-speaking.






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The Weissenhof Estate (or Weissenhof Settlement; in German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 Weißenhofsiedlung) is an estate
Housing estate

A housing estate is a group of buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Accordingly, a housing estate is usually built by a single contractor, with only a few styles of house or building design, so they tend to be uniform in appearance....
 of working class
Working class

Working class is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe, depending on context and speaker, those employed in specific fields or types of work....
 housing
Housing

Housing may refer to:* Houses* Federal Housing Administration* Enclosure , containing some equipment or mechanism...
 which was built in Stuttgart
Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
 in 1927. It was an international showcase of what later became known as the International style
International style

International style may refer to:*International style , the early 20th century modern movement in architecture*International style , the International style in medieval art...
 of modern architecture
Modern architecture

Modern architecture is a set of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of Ornament ....
.

The estate was built for the Deutscher Werkbund
Deutscher Werkbund

The Deutscher Werkbund was a Germany association of artists, architects, designers, and industrialists. The Werkbund was to become an important event in the development of modern architecture and industrial design, particularly in the later creation of the Bauhaus school of design....
 exhibition of 1927
1927 in architecture

The year 1927 in architecture involved some significant events....
, and included twenty-one buildings comprising sixty dwellings, designed by sixteen European architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
s, most of them German-speaking. The German architect Mies van der Rohe was in charge of the project on behalf of the city, and it was he who selected the architects, budgeted and coordinated their entries, prepared the site, and oversaw construction. Le Corbusier was awarded the two prime sites, facing the city, and by far the largest budget.

The twenty-one buildings vary only slightly in form, consisting of terrace
Terraced house

In architecture and city planning, a terrace or row house or townhouse is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls....
d and detached houses and apartment building
Apartment building

An apartment building, block of flats or tenement, is a Multi-family residential made up of several apartments , or flats . A difference may be drawn such as in San Francisco, California, between an apartment and a flat, where an apartment is one of many units on a floor and a flat is the only unit on a given floor....
s, and display a strong consistency of design. What they have in common are their simplified facade
Facade

A facade or fa?ade is generally one side of the exterior of a building, especially the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. The Word comes from the French language, literally meaning "frontage" or "face"....
s, flat roof
Roof

A roof is the covering on the uppermost part of a building. A roof protects the building and its contents from the effects of weather. Structures that require roofs range from a letter box to a cathedral or stadium, dwellings being the most numerous....
s used as terraces, window
Window

File:OldShipWindows.jpgA window is an opening in a wall that allows the passage of light and, if not closed or sealed, air and sound. Windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparency or translucent material....
 bands, open plan
Open plan

Open plan is the generic term used in architectural and interior design for any floor plan which makes use of large, open spaces and minimizes the use of small, enclosed rooms such as private offices....
 interiors, and the high level of prefabrication
Prefabrication

Prefabrication is the practice of assembling components of a structure in a factory or other manufacturing site, and transporting complete assemblies or sub-assemblies to the construction site where the structure is to be located....
 which permitted their erection in just five months. All but two of the entries were white. Bruno Taut
Bruno Taut

Bruno Julius Florian Taut , was a prolific German architect, urban planner and author active in the Weimar culture period.Taut is best known for his theoretical work, speculative writings and a handful of exhibition buildings....
 had his entry, the smallest, painted a bright red.

The estate was designed with tenant participation, and a streamlined building process
Construction

In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking....
 in mind. Advertised as a blueprint
Blueprint

A blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction usually of a technical drawing, documenting an architecture or an engineering design. More generally, the term "blueprint" has come to be used to refer to any detailed plan....
 for future workers' housing, in fact each of these houses was customized and furnished on a budget far out of a normal workers reach. The exhibition opened to the public on July 23, 1927, a year late, and drew large crowds.

Of the original twenty-one buildings, eleven survive as of 2006.

Participating architects

  • Peter Behrens
    Peter Behrens

    *Peter Behrens was a Germany architect and designer....
  • Victor Bourgeois
    Victor Bourgeois

    Victor Bourgeois was a Belgian architect and urban planner, considered the greatest Belgian modernist architect.Bourgeois studied at the Royal Academy in Brussels from 1914 through 1918, and was mentored by Henry van de Velde....
  • Le Corbusier
    Le Corbusier

    Charles-?douard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also Painting, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International Style....
     (Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris) and Pierre Jeanneret
    Pierre Jeanneret

    Pierre Jeanneret was a Swiss architect who collaborated with his more famous cousin Charles Edouard Jeanneret for about twenty years. Their working relationship ended when he joined the French Resistance and Le Corbusier did not....
  • Richard Döcker
  • Josef Frank
  • Walter Gropius
    Walter Gropius

    Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a Germany architect and founder of Bauhaus who along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
  • Ludwig Hilberseimer
    Ludwig Hilberseimer

    Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer was a German architect and urban planning best known for his ties to the Bauhaus and to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well as for his work in urban planning at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago, Illinois....
  • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies was a Germany architect. He was commonly referred to and addressed by his surname, Mies, by most of his American students and others....
  • Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud
  • Hans Poelzig
    Hans Poelzig

    Hans Poelzig was a Germans architect, painter and set designer....
  • Adolf Rading
    Adolf Rading

    Adolf Peter Rading was a German architect of the Neues Bauen period, also active in Palestine and Great Britain.After finishing architecture school in Berlin, Rading briefly worked in the office of Peter Behrens in 1919....
  • Hans Scharoun
    Hans Scharoun

    File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-E0324-0047-004, Berlin, Otto Nagel-Ausstellung, Scharoun.jpgBernhard Hans Henry Scharoun was a Germany architect best known for designing the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall and the in L?bau, Saxony....
  • Adolf Gustav Schneck
  • Mart Stam
    Mart Stam

    Mart Stam was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and chair designer. Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th century European architecture, including chair design at the Bauhaus, the Weissenhof Estate, the "Van Nelle Factory", an important modernist landmark building...
  • Bruno Taut
    Bruno Taut

    Bruno Julius Florian Taut , was a prolific German architect, urban planner and author active in the Weimar culture period.Taut is best known for his theoretical work, speculative writings and a handful of exhibition buildings....
  • Max Taut
    Max Taut

    Max Taut was a German Architect.Max Taut was the older brother of Bruno Taut and in the 1920s built office buildings for the Trades Unions....
  • Ferdinand Kramer
    Ferdinand Kramer

    Ferdinand Kramer was an important German architect and Functionalism designer.Kramer's father was owner of the most well-known of Frankfurt hat shops....

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