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	Project	Architect	Field	Typology	Location	Publication	Page
5067	Orchard Garden at the House of Prof. Aubin in Halle	Harry Maaß	Garden Design	Residential garden/Orchard	Halle	Die Form 1928 / 03	18
5066	Perennial Terraces	Harry Maaß	Garden Design	Garden	Lübeck	Die Form 1928 / 03	17
5065	Hereditary Burial Site in the Park of Neindorf Castle, Harz	Fr. Gildemeister	Garden Design	Cemetery/Memorial garden	Schloss Neindorf, Harz	Die Form 1928 / 03	16
5064	Driveway from a Villa Garden in Bremen-Vahr	Fr. Gildemeister	Garden Design	Residential garden	Bremen-Vahr	Die Form 1928 / 03	15
5063	Rose Garden from a Park in Bremen-Horn	Fr. Gildemeister	Garden Design	Garden	Bremen-Horn	Die Form 1928 / 03	14
5062	Hedge Detail of a Driveway in Bremen-Vahr	Fr. Gildemeister	Garden Design	Garden/Residential landscaping	Bremen-Vahr	Die Form 1928 / 03	13
5060	Newly Created Perennial Garden Made from an Old Orchard	Hermann Koenig	Garden Design	Garden	Landsitz Qu. bei Hamburg	Die Form 1928 / 03	12
5059	Model Post Office at the Annual Show of German Work, Dresden 1927	Oberpostdirektion Dresden, Hochbauabteilung	Exhibition Design / Architecture	Exhibition / Public	Dresden	Die Form 1928 / 02	27
5057	Telephone Exchange Berlin, Winterfeldtstraße	unattributed (Reichspost)	Architecture	Public/Postal, Telecommunications	Berlin, Winterfeldtstraße	Die Form 1928 / 02	25
5056	Motor Vehicle Building of the Reichspost, Augsburg	Postbaurat Werner mit Dipl.-Ing. Goetzger	Architecture	Industrial	Augsburg	Die Form 1928 / 02	23
5052	Parcel Delivery Office Munich	Oberregierungsbaurat Vorhoelzer und Postbaurat Holzhammer	Architecture	Public/Postal, Industrial	Munich	Die Form 1928 / 02	19
5049	Deukon House (Renovation)	Erich Mendelsohn	Architecture / Interior Design	Office / Commercial	Markgrafenstraße, Berlin	Die Form 1928 / 02	10
5048	Housing Group in Hoek van Holland	J. J. P. Oud	Architecture	Housing	Hoek van Holland, Netherlands	Die Form 1928 / 02	6
5047	Ship Lift Niederfinow	Hans Poelzig	Engineering / Architecture	Infrastructure	Niederfinow, Hohenzollernkanal between Berlin and Stettin	Die Form 1928 / 02	1
5036	Crucifix, King-Christ Church	Hans Wissel	Religious Metal Sculpture	Cultural / Religious Art	Bischofsheim bei Mainz	Die Form 1928 / 01	22
5034	Sheet Metal Sculptures by Hans Wissel	Prof. Hans Wissel	Metal Sculpture	Sculpture	Köln	Die Form 1928 / 01	19
5021	Cologne-Kalkerfeld Housing Estate	Wilhelm Riphahn und Caspar Maria Grod	Architecture	Housing	Köln (Cologne)	Die Form 1928 / 01	2
5019	Furniture by Ferdinand Kramer (Combination Furniture, Kitchen Table, Daybed, Door Handle etc.)	Ferdinand Kramer	Furniture Design / Industrial Design	Furniture	Frankfurt am Main; installed in Haus Mies van der Rohe, Stuttgart	Die Form 1927 / 09	63
5018	Stuttgart Gas Laundry Kitchen	Hilde Zimmermann	Industrial Design / Interior Design	Laundry	Stuttgart, Werkbundausstellung	Die Form 1927 / 09	53
5016	Kitchen in the Oud House	J. J. P. Oud	Interior Design	Kitchen	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	46
5015	Stuttgart Teaching Kitchen	Hilde Zimmermann, Dr. Erna Meyer, Architekt Dipl.-Ing. Metzke-Rovira	Industrial Design / Interior Design	Kitchen / Educational	Stuttgart, Werkbundausstellung	Die Form 1927 / 09	45
5014	Stuttgart Small Kitchen	Dr. Erna Meyer, Hilde Zimmermann, Baurat Keuerleber, Dipl.-Ing. Zimmermann	Industrial Design / Interior Design	Kitchen	Stuttgart, Werkbundausstellung	Die Form 1927 / 09	41
5013	Terrace House (Professor Peter Behrens House, Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	Peter Behrens	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	37
5012	Scharoun House (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	Hans Scharoun	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Breslau (architect based), Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	36
5011	Houses by M. Stam (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	M. Stam (Mart Stam)	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	34
5010	Dr. Frank House (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	Josef Frank	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	32
5009	Single-Family House by Prof. A. Rading (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	Adolf Rading	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	29
5008	Houses by Dr. Docker (Houses 21 and 22, Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	Dr. Richard Docker	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	26
5007	Worker's House (Bruno Taut House, Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	Bruno Taut	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	25
5006	Poelzig House (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	Professor Hans Poelzig	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	23
5005	House by Ludwig Hilberseimer (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	Ludwig Hilberseimer	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	21
5004	House by Professor Walter Gropius (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	Walter Gropius	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	18
5003	Houses by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	Le Corbusier und Pierre Jeanneret	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	14
5002	Houses by Oud (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	J. J. P. Oud	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	13
5001	Schneck House (House No. 12, Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)	Adolf G. Schneck	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung	Die Form 1927 / 09	9
5000	Weissenhof Estate - Apartment Block	Mies van der Rohe	Architecture	Housing	Stuttgart, Weißenhof	Die Form 1927 / 09	1
4998	New School in Hilversum	W. M. Dudok	Architecture	School	Hilversum, Netherlands	Die Form 1927 / 08	31
4997	Competition Entry for the League of Nations Palace in Geneva (Fahrenkamp/Deneke)	Prof. Emil Fahrenkamp, Düsseldorf; Stadtbaurat Deneke, Düsseldorf	Architecture	Office/Cultural	Geneva, Switzerland	Die Form 1927 / 08	30
4996	Competition Entry for the League of Nations Palace in Geneva (Klophaus-Schoch-zu Putlitz)	Klophaus, Schoch, zu Putlitz, Hamburg	Architecture	Office/Cultural	Geneva, Switzerland	Die Form 1927 / 08	29
4995	Textile Room (Hall Exhibition)	Lilly Reich, Berlin	Interior/Exhibition Design	Textile	Stuttgart	Die Form 1927 / 08	28
4994	Werkbund Exhibition 'The Dwelling' (Trade Hall Exhibition)	Lilly Reich (exhibition design), Willy Baumeister (lettering)	Exhibition Design	Cultural	Stuttgart	Die Form 1927 / 08	27
4993	The Weissenhof Estate	Mies van der Rohe (site plan), various architects	Architecture / Urban Planning	Housing	Weißenhof, Stuttgart	Die Form 1927 / 08	25
4982	Amsterdam-West Urban Expansion	Piet Kramer, and commission including Gratama, Hulshof, Versteeg; contributing architects: van Andel, Dr. H. P. Berlage, Blauw, Heineken und Kuipers, Piet Kramer, Frau Kropholler, Kruijswijk, van de Linde, van der Meij, J. de Meijer, van den Nieuwen Amstel, Roodenburg, Rutgers, Staal, Westerman, Wijdeveld	Urban Planning / Architecture	Housing / Urban Expansion	Amsterdam-West, Netherlands	Die Form 1927 / 07	30
4981	Werkbund Exhibition 'The Dwelling' (Weissenhof Estate)	Mies van der Rohe (director), with Peter Behrens, J. J. P. Oud, Mart Stam, Josef Frank, Victor Bourgeois, Adolf Schneck, Le Corbusier with Pierre Jeanneret, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Hans Poelzig, Bruno Taut, Richard Döcker, Max Taut, Adolf Rading, Hans Scharoun	Architecture / Urban Planning / Exhibition Design	Housing	Stuttgart	Die Form 1927 / 07	24
4980	Large Garage on Gutleutstraße	Ernst May	Architecture / Signage Design	Industrial/Garage	Frankfurt am Main, Gutleutstraße	Die Form 1927 / 07	17
4979	Volksstimme Kiosk at the Magdeburg Theater Exhibition	Carl Krayl	Exhibition Design	Exhibition Pavilion	Magdeburg	Die Form 1927 / 07	17
4976	Georgsgarten Settlement	Otto Haesler	Architecture	Housing	Celle	Die Form 1927 / 07	5
4973	Berlin Weekend House Exhibition	Various architects (unnamed individually)	Exhibition Design / Architecture	Housing (weekend/vacation houses)	Berlin, near the Funkturm	Die Form 1927 / 06	30
4972	Split-Level House / Double-Storey House	H. de Fries	Architecture / Urban Planning	Housing		Die Form 1927 / 06	28
4971	Krauss Steam Washing Machine with Ball Sieve Drum	Unknown	Industrial Design	Household Appliance	Schwarzenberg i. S.	Die Form 1927 / 05	30

Orchard Garden at the House of Prof. Aubin in Halle

Harry Maaß

An orchard garden designed adjacent to the house of Professor Aubin in Halle, combining fruit cultivation with garden design.

Residential garden/Orchard Built

Location

Halle

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Perennial Terraces

Harry Maaß

Terraced perennial planting design by Harry Maaß, illustrating landscape-oriented garden composition.

Garden Built

Location

Lübeck

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Hereditary Burial Site in the Park of Neindorf Castle, Harz

Fr. Gildemeister

A hereditary burial site designed within the park of Neindorf Castle in the Harz region, integrating architectural and planted elements.

Cemetery/Memorial garden Built

Location

Schloss Neindorf, Harz

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Driveway from a Villa Garden in Bremen-Vahr

Fr. Gildemeister

Driveway design for a villa garden in Bremen-Vahr, shown in two views illustrating Gildemeister's architectural garden approach.

Residential garden Built

Location

Bremen-Vahr

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Rose Garden from a Park in Bremen-Horn

Fr. Gildemeister

A rose garden within a park in Bremen-Horn, exemplifying the interplay of art and nature in Gildemeister's garden work.

Garden Built

Location

Bremen-Horn

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Hedge Detail of a Driveway in Bremen-Vahr

Fr. Gildemeister

A hedge detail using Rhododendron and Taxus planting at a driveway entrance in Bremen-Vahr, illustrating Gildemeister's approach to garden architecture.

Garden/Residential landscaping Built

Location

Bremen-Vahr

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Newly Created Perennial Garden Made from an Old Orchard

Hermann Koenig

A perennial garden created on a private estate near Hamburg out of an old orchard, presented as an example of modern plant-focused garden design.

Garden Built

Location

Landsitz Qu. bei Hamburg

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Model Post Office at the Annual Show of German Work, Dresden 1927

Oberpostdirektion Dresden, Hochbauabteilung

A model post office built for the 1927 Dresden exhibition 'Jahresschau Deutscher Arbeit,' including telephone booths, designed by the Dresden postal building department and executed by Deutsche Werkstätten.

Exhibition / Public Built

Location

Dresden

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Telephone Exchange Berlin, Winterfeldtstraße

unattributed (Reichspost)

A telephone exchange whose roof design evokes an old oriental observatory, criticized for excessive formalistic and picturesque-decorative treatment of its cubic forms; interior staircase criticized for kitsch-leaning lighting fixtures and ceiling painting.

Public/Postal, Telecommunications Built

Location

Berlin, Winterfeldtstraße

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Motor Vehicle Building of the Reichspost, Augsburg

Postbaurat Werner mit Dipl.-Ing. Goetzger

A vehicle garage building for the Reichspost (project 1925, partial execution 1926/27) with clear and functional design; decorative brick patterning well integrated into the overall composition.

Industrial Built

Location

Augsburg

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Parcel Delivery Office Munich

Oberregierungsbaurat Vorhoelzer und Postbaurat Holzhammer

A parcel sorting facility with a round building (Rundbau) for the sorting hall, praised as achieving genuine modern monumentality arising from the demands of the postal operation itself.

Public/Postal, Industrial Built

Location

Munich

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Deukon House (Renovation)

Erich Mendelsohn

A renovation of a magazine publishing house for the textile industry in Berlin's garment district, featuring a travertine and bronze facade, a dramatic staircase redesign, and exhibition spaces with controlled diffuse lighting.

Office / Commercial Built

Location

Markgrafenstraße, Berlin

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Housing Group in Hoek van Holland

J. J. P. Oud

A housing block combining urban and village characteristics, with ground-floor shops separated by open grille work, balconies, front and back gardens, 41 apartments total, and a community library in the middle of the block.

Housing Built

Location

Hoek van Holland, Netherlands

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Ship Lift Niederfinow

Hans Poelzig

A monumental ship lift design comparing the government engineers' preliminary design with Poelzig's alternative, which emphasizes vertical structural expression through a clear frame system rather than a complex triangular truss.

Infrastructure Unbuilt

Location

Niederfinow, Hohenzollernkanal between Berlin and Stettin

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Crucifix, King-Christ Church

Hans Wissel

A monumental brass sheet crucifix, with the Christ figure 5 m high, made for the König-Christus-Kirche in Bischofsheim near Mainz, using Wissel's hammered sheet-metal technique.

Cultural / Religious Art Built

Location

Bischofsheim bei Mainz

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Sheet Metal Sculptures by Hans Wissel

Prof. Hans Wissel

A body of sheet-metal sculpture works (heads, torsos, figures) by Hans Wissel using a hammered and soldered sheet-brass/copper technique, in which the seams are deliberately left visible rather than smoothed over.

Sculpture Built

Location

Köln

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Cologne-Kalkerfeld Housing Estate

Wilhelm Riphahn und Caspar Maria Grod

A suburban housing estate in Cologne built using a single standardized housing type for the whole complex, emphasizing typification, rationalization, and cost reduction; discussed with attention to window details using Mannstaedt steel frames.

Housing Built

Location

Köln (Cologne)

Publication

Die Form · 1928

Open project

Furniture by Ferdinand Kramer (Combination Furniture, Kitchen Table, Daybed, Door Handle etc.)

Ferdinand Kramer

A series of functionalist furniture pieces (combination kitchen cabinet/stool, kitchen table, daybed with folding table, door handles) exemplifying a pure, non-historicist modern style rooted in practical use and material logic.

Furniture Built

Location

Frankfurt am Main; installed in Haus Mies van der Rohe, Stuttgart

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Stuttgart Gas Laundry Kitchen

Hilde Zimmermann

A model gas-heated laundry room with hot water supply via a gas-heated bath heater with a long swivel arm, gas-heated washing machine, and gas ironing setup.

Laundry Built

Location

Stuttgart, Werkbundausstellung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Kitchen in the Oud House

J. J. P. Oud

A built-in kitchen adapted to the housewife's daily workflow, featuring a well-lit work surface, ventilated food cupboard, waste bin, and a serving hatch with glass door to the dining room.

Kitchen Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Stuttgart Teaching Kitchen

Hilde Zimmermann, Dr. Erna Meyer, Architekt Dipl.-Ing. Metzke-Rovira

A teaching kitchen composed of individual booths, each equipped as a complete four-person household kitchen, designed for realistic domestic science instruction rather than communal cooking classes.

Kitchen / Educational Built

Location

Stuttgart, Werkbundausstellung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Stuttgart Small Kitchen

Dr. Erna Meyer, Hilde Zimmermann, Baurat Keuerleber, Dipl.-Ing. Zimmermann

A compact 8.6 sqm model kitchen made from standardized element furniture, designed for maximum flexibility and efficient work flow, featuring a rotating stool and adjustable ironing table.

Kitchen Built

Location

Stuttgart, Werkbundausstellung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Terrace House (Professor Peter Behrens House, Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

Peter Behrens

A stepped 'terrace house' conglomerate of one- to four-story units where the flat roof of a lower unit forms the terrace for the unit behind, designed with hygienic and moral considerations such as separable sleeping quarters.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Scharoun House (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

Hans Scharoun

One of the smallest single-family houses in the estate, designed with clear separation of living, sleeping, and service zones and strong scale contrasts between living and sleeping areas, integrating the surrounding landscape.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Breslau (architect based), Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Houses by M. Stam (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

M. Stam (Mart Stam)

Housing type aiming for maximum economy through serial production, intended as a step toward a standardized 'Neues Wohnen' housing typology to address housing shortage.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Dr. Frank House (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

Josef Frank

A house discussed in the context of an essay opposing over-industrialization of housing design, furnished with upholstered furniture by Gustav Carl Lehmann of Cologne; noted for interior warmth over machine-like functionalism.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Single-Family House by Prof. A. Rading (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

Adolf Rading

A house on an irregular plot with the entire ground floor developed on one level to avoid unnecessary stair-climbing; living rooms open outward via folding doors, while bedrooms are reached through the whole house for privacy.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Houses by Dr. Docker (Houses 21 and 22, Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

Dr. Richard Docker

Two staggered houses (Nos. 21 and 22) adapted to differing street levels, each with a large living/dining room of 35-45 sqm and spacious bathrooms doubling as gymnastic rooms, plus large terraces.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Worker's House (Bruno Taut House, Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

Bruno Taut

A modest workers' house for a family of six, designed for approximately 10,000-12,000 Marks in serial production, using the 'Thermos' construction method by Pohlmann of Hamburg for thermal insulation.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Poelzig House (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

Professor Hans Poelzig

A house built with dry-construction methods using a timber frame with heat-insulating panels (Fonitram panels), oriented to maximize southern and eastern views while keeping service spaces to the north/west.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

House by Ludwig Hilberseimer (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

Ludwig Hilberseimer

A single-family house for a garden-city-type urban park setting, with a main floor and partly developed basement, featuring an oversized living room connected to a terrace and garden.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

House by Professor Walter Gropius (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

Walter Gropius

A house exemplifying an industrialized, standardized approach to housing construction with prefabricated, factory-made building components; interiors featured Marcel Breuer's metal furniture.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Houses by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

Le Corbusier und Pierre Jeanneret

Two houses (a single-family house and a semi-detached house) demonstrating the 'Five Points of a New Architecture': pilotis, roof gardens, free plan, ribbon windows, and free facade design.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Houses by Oud (Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

J. J. P. Oud

Row houses conceived as a typical excerpt from a larger housing estate, with living quarters facing south and service areas facing north, using a cast-concrete system (Kossel).

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Schneck House (House No. 12, Werkbund Estate Stuttgart)

Adolf G. Schneck

A single-family house of 72.2 sqm footprint with flexible floor plan divisible by partition walls, flat roof for economic reasons, built with pumice stone and reinforced concrete floors.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhofsiedlung

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Weissenhof Estate - Apartment Block

Mies van der Rohe

A steel-framed apartment block allowing 24 different floor plans within a uniform structural grid, avoiding monotony while exploiting economic advantages of a standardized frame.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart, Weißenhof

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

New School in Hilversum

W. M. Dudok

A newly completed school building by Dudok in Hilversum, part of his celebrated body of school designs including the well-known school on the Boschdrift.

School Built

Location

Hilversum, Netherlands

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Competition Entry for the League of Nations Palace in Geneva (Fahrenkamp/Deneke)

Prof. Emil Fahrenkamp, Düsseldorf; Stadtbaurat Deneke, Düsseldorf

A first-prize-winning competition entry by Emil Fahrenkamp and Stadtbaurat Deneke for the League of Nations Palace competition in Geneva.

Office/Cultural Unbuilt

Location

Geneva, Switzerland

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Competition Entry for the League of Nations Palace in Geneva (Klophaus-Schoch-zu Putlitz)

Klophaus, Schoch, zu Putlitz, Hamburg

A first-prize-winning competition entry by a Hamburg architect group for the League of Nations Palace competition, a large office building with assembly halls on Lake Geneva.

Office/Cultural Unbuilt

Location

Geneva, Switzerland

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Textile Room (Hall Exhibition)

Lilly Reich, Berlin

A room within the Werkbund exhibition hall dedicated to textiles, designed by Lilly Reich.

Textile Built

Location

Stuttgart

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Werkbund Exhibition 'The Dwelling' (Trade Hall Exhibition)

Lilly Reich (exhibition design), Willy Baumeister (lettering)

The hall exhibition portion of the Werkbund show displaying household appliances, technical fittings, and furnishings, with exhibition design by Lilly Reich and lettering by Willy Baumeister.

Cultural Built

Location

Stuttgart

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

The Weissenhof Estate

Mies van der Rohe (site plan), various architects

A model housing estate built for the Werkbund exhibition 'Die Wohnung' in Stuttgart, with a site plan by Mies van der Rohe organizing houses by multiple modern architects on a hillside site.

Housing Built

Location

Weißenhof, Stuttgart

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Amsterdam-West Urban Expansion

Piet Kramer, and commission including Gratama, Hulshof, Versteeg; contributing architects: van Andel, Dr. H. P. Berlage, Blauw, Heineken und Kuipers, Piet Kramer, Frau Kropholler, Kruijswijk, van de Linde, van der Meij, J. de Meijer, van den Nieuwen Amstel, Roodenburg, Rutgers, Staal, Westerman, Wijdeveld

A major planned residential expansion of Amsterdam on marshy polder land requiring special pile foundation systems (Händl, Bronwasser, van der Schaar systems), coordinated by an architects' commission to ensure aesthetic street unity, with government subsidies per dwelling; 6000 dwellings planned, thousands completed by 1926.

Housing / Urban Expansion Built

Location

Amsterdam-West, Netherlands

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Werkbund Exhibition 'The Dwelling' (Weissenhof Estate)

Mies van der Rohe (director), with Peter Behrens, J. J. P. Oud, Mart Stam, Josef Frank, Victor Bourgeois, Adolf Schneck, Le Corbusier with Pierre Jeanneret, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Hans Poelzig, Bruno Taut, Richard Döcker, Max Taut, Adolf Rading, Hans Scharoun

Major Werkbund housing exhibition in Stuttgart (23 July - 9 October 1927) featuring experimental apartment blocks, row houses, and single-family houses by leading modernist architects, using varied construction systems (steel frame, pumice block, reinforced concrete), alongside an international exhibition of plans and models of new architecture.

Housing Built

Location

Stuttgart

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Large Garage on Gutleutstraße

Ernst May

A large garage building in Frankfurt whose lettering/signage design closely follows the Grotesk typeface, cited as an example of well-integrated architectural signage.

Industrial/Garage Built

Location

Frankfurt am Main, Gutleutstraße

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Volksstimme Kiosk at the Magdeburg Theater Exhibition

Carl Krayl

A small exhibition kiosk built as a lettering/signage carrier for a newspaper (Volksstimme) at the Magdeburg Theater Exhibition, illuminated at night.

Exhibition Pavilion Built

Location

Magdeburg

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Georgsgarten Settlement

Otto Haesler

A large-scale organized housing block settlement with three-story blocks oriented perpendicular to access streets, featuring central heating, central laundry, communal baths, shops, kindergarten, and individual gardens for each unit; regarded as a standard-setting achievement in small-apartment housing.

Housing Built

Location

Celle

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Berlin Weekend House Exhibition

Various architects (unnamed individually)

An exhibition of small weekend house prototypes near the Berlin radio tower, showing a range of quality from well-considered architect-designed houses to poorly executed examples, alongside a large unrelated trade exhibition.

Housing (weekend/vacation houses) Built

Location

Berlin, near the Funkturm

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Split-Level House / Double-Storey House

H. de Fries

A housing concept using split half-storeys around a double-height common living room to eliminate stairwell space losses and improve small-apartment living conditions, developed further from the author's 1919 book 'Wohnstädte der Zukunft'.

Housing Unbuilt

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

Krauss Steam Washing Machine with Ball Sieve Drum

A steam washing machine with a seamless, double-folded boiler, ball-type sieve drum with hinged lid, and hot-dip galvanized components, presented as an exemplary piece of quality mass-produced ware.

Household Appliance Built

Location

Schwarzenberg i. S.

Publication

Die Form · 1927

Open project

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