Hannes Meyer

E40453

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.

Aliases (1)

Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Bauhaus teacher
architect
human
urban planner
architecturalStyle functionalism
socially oriented modernism
countryOfCitizenship Switzerland
designed public buildings
schools
workers' housing estates
designPhilosophy architecture as an instrument of social reform
collective design over individual authorship
priority of function over aesthetics
educatedAt Basel School of Arts and Crafts
employer Bauhaus Dessau
fieldOfWork architecture
housing
urban planning
followedBy Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
follows Walter Gropius
influenced later functionalist architects
social housing design
influencedBy Russian constructivism
Walter Gropius
knownFor collective and cooperative design methods
emphasis on functional design
socially oriented approach to architecture
movement Bauhaus
functionalism
modern architecture
name Hannes Meyer
notableWork ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau
Laubenganghäuser Dessau-Törten
occupation architect
educator
urban planner
politicalIdeology Marxism
left-wing politics
positionHeld director of the Bauhaus
taught architecture
urban planning
taughtAt Bauhaus Dessau
schools in Mexico
schools in the Soviet Union
workLocation Basel NERFINISHED
Dessau
Mexico City
Moscow


Please wait…