The Weissenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart: Experimental Housing Built for the Deutscher Werkbund, Stuttgart, 1927

The Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart, Germany, has without any doubt a fundamental signifance for the history of early modern architecture. Almost all the influential architects of the 20th century, for example Mies van der Rohe as artistic director, Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, Hans Scharoun, Mart Stam, Max Taut, built their proposed solutions in response to the theme »a home for modern city dwellers«. The choice of architect...