Hannes Meyer
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Hannes Meyer was a Swiss architect and urban planner who served as the second director of the Bauhaus, known for his functionalist, socially oriented approach to design and architecture.
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Bauhaus teacher
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architect → human → urban planner → |
| architecturalStyle |
functionalism
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socially oriented modernism → |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Switzerland
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| designed |
public buildings
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schools → workers' housing estates → |
| designPhilosophy |
architecture as an instrument of social reform
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collective design over individual authorship → priority of function over aesthetics → |
| educatedAt |
Basel School of Arts and Crafts
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| employer |
Bauhaus Dessau
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| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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housing → urban planning → |
| followedBy |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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| follows |
Walter Gropius
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| influenced |
later functionalist architects
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social housing design → |
| influencedBy |
Russian constructivism
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Walter Gropius → |
| knownFor |
collective and cooperative design methods
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emphasis on functional design → socially oriented approach to architecture → |
| movement |
Bauhaus
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functionalism → modern architecture → |
| name |
Hannes Meyer
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| notableWork |
ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau
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Laubenganghäuser Dessau-Törten → |
| occupation |
architect
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educator → urban planner → |
| politicalIdeology |
Marxism
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left-wing politics → |
| positionHeld |
director of the Bauhaus
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| taught |
architecture
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urban planning → |
| taughtAt |
Bauhaus Dessau
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schools in Mexico → schools in the Soviet Union → |
| workLocation |
Basel
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Dessau → Mexico City → Moscow → |
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La Sarraz Congress
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La Sarraz Congress ("Sven Markelius") → |
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Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne
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Bauhaus
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Hannes Meyer
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