Bruno Taut
Bruno Julius Florian Taut (born the May 4th 1880 with Königsberg at the time in Germany, and dead the December 24th 1938 with Istanbul) was an architect, a town planner and a German author prolific, very active at the time of the Weimar Republic. He was the brother of max Taut, him also architect.
Biography
Bruno Taut is better known apart from Germany for his theoretical work, his speculative writings and his handle of buildings built during exposures. Most known of its buildings is the house of glass for the exposure of the Deutscher Werkbund to Cologne in 1914. Its sketches for a alpine architecture in 1917 result from work visionary nourished of a vision utopian assumed. He is as well arranged among the architects Modernes as among the expressionnists.
Its reputation does not reflect exactly the integrality of its production and its social and practical achievements.
After formbeing formed in Berlin and to have joined the agency of Theodor Fischer with Stuttgart, Bruno Taut opened his own agency in Berlin in 1910. Its older fellow-member Hermann Muthesius suggested to him making a study trip in England to include/understand the step of the garden cities. This voyage had a durable impact on him. Muthesius also presented it to some important figures Deutscher Werkbund of which Walter Gropius. Bruno Taut had socialist inclinations, and, before the First World War, those nuirent with its professional progression.
After the war, Bruno Taut completed two projects of dwelling with Magdeburg of 1912 to 1915, directly influenced by a human functionalism and solutions of an urban nature coming from the ideas of the garden cities. He officiated as a town planner of the town of Magdeburg of 1921 to 1923.
In 1924 it was named architect as a chief of GEHAG, a company of private property development, and drew several great allotments ( Large-Siedlungen ) with Berlin which had success, in particular the Hufeisensiedlung (the city of the horseshoe) in 1925, called thus because of its configuration around a pond, and the residence of the Onkel-Toms Hutte (Uncle Tom's cabin) in 1926 with Zenlendorf, strange name due to a restaurant of the corner established in a thick thicket of trees. The design is characterized by modern flat roofs, charitable accesses to the sun, the air, the gardens, and a generous offer of service the such gases, the electric light and bathrooms. The critics emanating of the spirits of right-hand side complained that these residences were too opulent for “simple people”. Gustav Böss, the mayor progressist of Berlin, defended it: “ We want to upwards draw the lowest layers from the company. ”
The team of Taut delivered more: 12000 dwellings between 1924 and 1931. The GEHAG is always in activity, and it has like logo a horseshoe in reference to Taut.
Bruno Taut worked in Soviet Union in 1932 and 1933, and returned at his place in February 1933 in a very hostile political context. He flees in Suisse, then with Takasaki with the Japan where he produced three important books on the culture and Japanese architecture, and produces a work of furnishing and installation of interiors.
Having received the proposal of a post of professor of architecture to the Academy of State of Visual arts of Istanbul, Bruno Taut moved in Turkey in 1936. Before its untimely death in 1938, it wrote at least another book and, after being commissioned by the Turkish Minister of education, it drew many equipment for this ministry with Ankara and Trébizonde.
Painter during all his life, Bruno Taut is a rare case among his modernistic European contemporaries has to have carried a worship with the color.
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