Biography
1886 - born on March 27 in Aachen in a stonemason's family
1897-99 - attended the cathedral school in Aachen
1900 - intern at various construction sites, project supervision, draftsman
1905 - moved to Berlin
1905-07 - worked in the studio of furniture designer Bruno Paul
1907 - first own project - the Riehl house in Neubabelsberg
1908-11 - employed in the office of Peter Behrens
1912-14 - own practice in Berlin
1930-33 - director of Bauhaus in Dessau
1937 - first visit to the USA
1938 - emigration to the USA, became director of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago
1944 - obtained American citizenship
The English translation is powered by AI tool. Switch to Czech to view the original text source.

Realizations and projects

Other Buildings

Dominion Square Project, Montreal, Canada, 1968-69
Northwest Plaza Project - project, Chicago, 1968-69
High Rose Apartment Building Nos. 2 and 3, Nuns' Island, 1968-69
Commerzbank A.G. - office and bank building project, Frankfurt, Germany, 1968
I.B.M. - regional office building (co. C.F. Murphy), Chicago, 1967
A New City Square and Office Tower - project, London, England, 1967
111 East Wacker Drive, Illinois Central Air Right Development, 1967-70
Esso - gas station, Nuns' Island, Canada, 1967-68
King Broadcasting Studios - project, Seattle, WA, 1967-79
High Rise Apartment Building No.1, Nuns' Island, Montreal, Canada, 1967-69
Blue Cross Apartment - project, Chicago, 1966-69
Houston Museum - project extension, Houston, 1966-69
District of Columbia Public Library, Washington, D.C., 1966-72
Foster City - project of apartment buildings, San Mateo, California, 1966
New Haven, Connecticut Redevelopment - project, 1966
Church Street South K-4 School - project, New Haven, 1966
Westmount Square, Toronto, Canada, 1965-68
Toronto-Dominion Centre, Toronto, Canada, 1963-69
Highfield House, Apartment building, Baltimore, 1963-69
Lafayette Towers, Lafayette Park, Detroit, 1963
The Science Center, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, 1962-68
Meredith Memorial Hall, Drake University, Des Moines, 1962-65
Social Service Administration Building, The University of Chicago, 1962-65
Mountain Place - project, Montreal, 1961
2400 Lakeview Apartment Building, Chicago, 1960-63
One Charles Center - office building, Baltimore, 1960-63
Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Des Moines, 1960-63
Schaefer Museum - project, Schweinfurt, Germany, 1960-61
Friedrich Krupp - project for an administrative building, Essen, Germany, 1959-63
Rockville Center Development - project, 1959
Mies van der Rohe - project for the 5th Biennale, Sao Paulo, 1959
Chicago Federal Center, Federal Office Building and U.S. Post Office, 1959
Chicago Federal Center, U.S. Courthouse and Federal Office Building, 1959-64
Pavilion Apartments and Colonnade Apartments, Colonnade Park, Newark, 1958-60
Seagram Office Building - project, Chicago, 1958-59
Municipal Housing, Lafayette Park, Detroit, 1958
Pavilion Apartments, Lafayette Park, Detroit, 1958
Bacardi - office building, Mexico City, 1957-61
Battery Park Apartment Development - project, New York, 1957-58
Housing for Pratt Institute - project, Brooklyn, NY, 1957
Commercial building project, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 1957
Kaiser - project for an office building, Chicago, 1957
Bacardi - project for an office building, Santiago de Cuba, 1957
Quadangles Apartments - project, Brooklyn, 1957
Consulate of the United States in Sao Paulo - project, Brasilia, 1957
Metals Research Building, I.I.T., 1956
Hyde Park - reconstruction, Chicago, 1956
Association of American Railroads Laboratory Building, I.I.T., 1955-57
Urban Plan for Lafayette Park (co. L. Hilbersheimer), Detroit, 1955-56
Lubin Apartment-Hotel - project, New York, 1955
Bensville - project of row houses, 1954
Urban Plan for Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1954
900 Esplanade Apartments, Chicago, 1953-56
Commonwealth Promenade Apartments, Chicago, 1953-56
Convention Hall - project, Chicago, 1953-54
Bailey Hall (co. Pace Associates), I.I.T., 1952-55
Cunningham Hall (co. Pace Associates), I.I.T., 1952-55
National Theatre - project, Mannheim, Germany, 1952-53
Commons Building (co. Friedman, Alschuler and Sincere), I.I.T., 1952-53
Carman Hall (co. Pace Associates), I.I.T., 1951-53
Pi Lambda Phi House - project of university fraternity house, Bloomington, Indiana, 1951-52
McCormick House, Elmhurst, Illinois, 1951-52
Berke Office Building - project, Indianapolis, 1950-52
Mechanical Engineering Research Building I, I.I.T., 1950-52
Fifty Foot by Fifty Foot House - project, 1950-51
Prefab Row Houses - project, 1950-51
Crown Hall, Architecture, City Planning and Design Building (co. Pace Ass.), I.I.T., 1950-56
Chicago Beach Apartments - project, Chicago, 1950
Student Dorms and Fraternity Houses - project, I.I.T., 1950-58
Leon J. Caine House - project, Winnetka, Illinois, 1950-53
Chapel, I.I.T., 1949-52
Cantor Commercial Center Office Building - project, Indianapolis, 1949-50
Mechanical Engineering Building for Association of American Railroads, I.I.T., 53
Algonquin Apartments - project, two variants, 1948-50
860 and 880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago, 1948-51
Association of American Railroads Administration Building, I.I.T., 1948-50
Student Union Building - project, I.I.T., 1948
Institute of Gas Technology (co. Friedman, Alschuler and Sincere), I.I.T., 1947-50
Swimming Pool - project, I.I.T., 1947
Theater - project, 1947
Central Shelter, I.I.T., 1947
Subsidized Housing (co. Pace Associates, Klekamp and Taylor), Chicago, 1946-49
Cantor House - project, Indianapolis, 1946-47
Boiler Plant, I.I.T., 1945-50
Cantor Drive-in - project for a restaurant, Indianapolis, 1945-46
Wishnick Hall, chemical building, I.I.T., 1945-46
Perlstein Hall, metallurgical and chemical building, I.I.T., 1945-46
Alumni Memorial Hall (co. Holabird and Root), I.I.T., 1945-46
Havana Power Station (co. Sagent and Lundy, Engineers), Illinois, 1945
Merdosia Power Station, Merdosia, Louisiana, 1945
Power Station - project, Moorningsport, Louisiana, 1945
Study of Buildings with Classes, I.I.T., 1945
Research Engineering Building for Armour Research Foundation, I.I.T., 1944-46
Library and Administrative Building - project, I.I.T., 1944
Research Building for Metals for Armour Research Foundation, I.I.T., 1942-43
Concert Hall - project, 1942
Museum for a Small Town - project, 1942
Urban Plan, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 1940-41
Preliminary Plan for IIT Campus, Chicago, Illinois, 1939
Resor House - project, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, 1937-38
Office Building for Vereinigte Seidenwebereien A.G., Krefeld, 1937-38
Ulrich Lange House - project, second version, Krefeld, 1935
Hubbe House - project, Magdeburg, 1934-35
Court-House - projects, 1934-35
Gas Station - project, 1934
German Pavilion for the International Exhibition - project, Brussels, Belgium, 1934
House in the Mountains - project, probably Merano, South Tyrol, Austria, 1934
Mining Exhibits, Deutsches Volk, Deutsche Arbeit Exposition, Berlin, 1934
Reichsbank - project, Berlin, 1933
Factory Building and Power Station for Vereinigte Seidenwebereien A.G., Krefeld, 33
Gericke House - project, Berlin-Wannsee, 1932
Bachelor's Apartment for IBA - demolished, Berlin, 1931
House for IBA - demolished, Berlin, 1931
Neue Wache - project for a war memorial, Berlin-Mitte, 1930
Golf Club - project, Krefeld, 1930
Interior of an Apartment, New York, 1930
Office Building on Friedrichstrasse - project, second design, Berlin-Mitte, 1929
Emil Nolde House - project, Berlin-Dahlem, 1929
Industrial Exhibition at the International Exhibition (co. Lilly Reich), 1928-29
Electricity Pavilion at the International Exhibition - demolished, Barcelona, 1928-29
German Pavilion at the International Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, 1928-29
Bank and Office Building - project, Stuttgart, 1928
S. Adam - project for a department store, Leipzigerstrasse, Berlin, 1928-29
Redevelopment of Alexanderplatz - project, Berlin, 1928
Extension Fuchs House (Perl House), Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1928
Hermann Lange House and Esters House - heavily damaged, Krefeld, 1927-30
Glass Exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany, 1927
Silk Exhibition (co. Lilly Reich), Exposition de la Mode, Berlin, 1927
Memorial to K. Liebknecht and R. Luxemburg (after the November Revolution) - destroyed, Berlin, 1926
Apartment Building Wiesenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart, 1926-27
Apartment - exhibition Werkbund, Wiesenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart, 1925-7
Municipal Apartment Building, Afrikanischestrasse, Berlin-Wedding, 1925-27
Erich Wolf House, Gubin, Poland, 1925-27 - heavily damaged during the war, now just a shell
Dexel House, Jena, 1925
Eliat House - project, Potsdam-Nedlitz, 1925
Transportation Tower - project, Berlin, 1924
Mosler House, Berlin-Neubabelsberg, 1924
Extension of the Gymnasium of the Private School of Mrs. Butte - project, Potsdam, 1924
Brick Country House - project, Berlin-Neubabelsberg, 1924
Lessing House - project, Berlin-Neubabelberg, 1923
Concrete Country House - project, 1923
Concrete Office Building - project, Berlin, 1923
Glass Skyscraper - project, 1922
Petermann House - project, Berlin-Neubabelberg, 1921
Eichstaedt House, Berlin-Nikolasee, 1921-23
Office Building - project, Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, 1921
Kempner House - destroyed, Berlin, 1921
Kempner House - project, Berlin, 1919
Urbig House, Berlin-Neubabelsberg, 1915-17
House for Two Architects - project, two versions, Werder, 1914
Werner House, Heerstrasse, Berlin-Zhlendorf, Germany, 1912-13
Kroeller House - project, Wassenaar, Netherlands, 1912-13
Perls House (formerly Fuchs House), Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany, 1911-12
Bismarck Monument - project, Bingen, Hesse, Germany, 1910
Riehl House, Berlin-Neubabelsberg, Germany, 1906-07

Furniture

chair Barcelona, 1929
chair Brno, 1930
chair Tugendhat, 1930


0 comments
add comment