Bruno Taut

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Bruno Taut was a pioneering German architect and urban planner known for his colorful Expressionist designs and influential modernist housing estates in Berlin.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf architect
human
modernist architect
urban planner
countryOfCitizenship German Empire
Germany
dateOfBirth 1880-05-04
dateOfDeath 1938-12-24
educatedAt Charlottenburg Technical College
Königsberg building trade school
linked to: Königsberg
employer Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul
Deutscher Werkbund
GEHAG (Gemeinnützige Heimstätten-, Spar- und Bau-Aktiengesellschaft)
Stadtbauamt Magdeburg
Tokyo University NERFINISHED
familyName Taut
fieldOfWork architecture
urban planning
givenName Bruno
influenced modernist housing design
postwar social housing architects
influencedBy Deutscher Werkbund
Garden city movement
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned German
mannerOfDeath natural causes
movement Expressionism
Modernism
name Bruno Taut
notableIdea Expressionist architecture
linked to: Brick Expressionism

colorful housing estates
social housing
use of color in architecture
notableWork Berlin modernist housing estates
Glass Pavilion
Horseshoe Estate in Berlin-Britz
Hufeisensiedlung
Magdeburg housing estates
Onkel Toms Hütte housing estate
Uncle Tom’s Cabin estate in Berlin-Zehlendorf
occupation architect
professor
urban planner
participantIn German Expressionist movement
Weimar Republic housing programs
placeOfBirth East Prussia
Königsberg
placeOfDeath Istanbul
sexOrGender male
workLocation Berlin
Istanbul
Magdeburg
Moscow
Tokyo

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Deutscher Werkbund notableMember Bruno Taut
New Objectivity notableArchitect Bruno Taut
Deutscher Werkbund notableMember Bruno Taut
subject linked to: DWB
Bruno Taut name Bruno Taut
Hans Scharoun influencedBy Bruno Taut