Bruno Taut was a pioneering German architect and urban planner in the early 20th century. He was known for his use of bold colors in architecture and his experimental designs using glass and other modern materials. Some of his most notable works included the Falkenberg Garden City in Berlin from 1913-1915, which was praised for its colorful design, and the Glass Pavilion built in 1914 to demonstrate the potential of using glass in architecture. Taut also designed the large Horseshoe Estate housing development in Berlin from 1925-1933, which featured terraced houses with brightly colored facades and balconies arranged around a central garden.
Bruno Taut was a pioneering German architect and urban planner in the early 20th century. He was known for his use of bold colors in architecture and his experimental designs using glass and other modern materials. Some of his most notable works included the Falkenberg Garden City in Berlin from 1913-1915, which was praised for its colorful design, and the Glass Pavilion built in 1914 to demonstrate the potential of using glass in architecture. Taut also designed the large Horseshoe Estate housing development in Berlin from 1925-1933, which featured terraced houses with brightly colored facades and balconies arranged around a central garden.
Bruno Taut was a pioneering German architect and urban planner in the early 20th century. He was known for his use of bold colors in architecture and his experimental designs using glass and other modern materials. Some of his most notable works included the Falkenberg Garden City in Berlin from 1913-1915, which was praised for its colorful design, and the Glass Pavilion built in 1914 to demonstrate the potential of using glass in architecture. Taut also designed the large Horseshoe Estate housing development in Berlin from 1925-1933, which featured terraced houses with brightly colored facades and balconies arranged around a central garden.
• Bruno Taut was a German architect, theorist, painter, pioneer of colour in modern architecture, urban planner and early fan of the Garden City Movement • Taut was educated at the Baugewerkeschule trade school, his career began in Berlin in 1903 working for Bruno Möhring an important art nouveau (Jugendstil) architect, • he moved to Stuttgart in 1904 to work for Theodore Fischer who had a special interest in public housing and it was here that Taut studied urban planning. • In 1909 Bruno Taut returned to Berlin to form an architecture practice with his brother Max and Franz Hoffman. • Taut’s Falkenberg Gartenstadt (garden city) in Berlin was fondly described by locals as ‘tuschkastensiedlungwhich’ the paintbox settlement, referring to its use of colour, built between 1913-15 it received wide acclaim. The Institute of Urban Dreaming has an excellent article about a recent visit. • By 1921 Bruno Taut had become Magdeburg’s city architect a role he managed from his Berlin office, he remained in the post for three years, his role to create and implement the municipal planning programme of the city, of special note is the Garden City Colony. •GLASS PAVILION •Built in 1914 •Constructed using concrete and glass •Concrete structure has inlaid coloured glass plates on the facade that acted as mirrors •The purpose of building was to demonstrate the potential of different types of glass for architecture.it also indicated how the material might be used to orchestrate human emotions •It had a 14 sided base constructed of thick glass bricks used for the exterior walls devoid of rectangles . •Each part of cupola was designed to recall the complex geometry of nature •The pavillion structure was on concrete plinth, the entrance reached by 2 flights of steps (one on either side of the building),which gave the pavilion a temple – like quality •First building made of importance made of glass bricks • TAUTS IDEA OF GLASS PAVILION • Doesnt have real function • It was more to provoke something in someone than a practical building • Created experiances ,where people would be able to feel,touch and primarily see • Similar to gothic cathedrals HORSESHOE ESTATE • The Hufeisensiedlung (Horseshoe Estate) is a modernist housing estate by architect Bruno Taut built on the site of the former Britz Manor in Berlin. • Built in 1925-1933 • In the late 1920s and early 1930s, architecture in Berlin reflected the political struggle between the Socialists and the Nazis. • Bruno Taut’s plans for the Hufeisensiedlung, drawn up in cooperation with Berlin’s chief city planner Martin Wagner, were in stark contrast to the traditional pitch-roofed houses preferred by the Nazis, that surrounded it. • The Hufeisensiedlung was awarded Unesco World Heritage site status in 2008 as one of the six Berlin Modernism Housing Estates along with: Gartenstadt Falkenberg, otherwise known as the Tuschkastensiedlung (Paintbox Estate); Siedlung Schillerpark; Wohnstadt Carl Legien; Weiße Stadt (White City) and Großsiedlung Siemensstadt, or the Ringsiedlung (Ring Estate). • Typical of Taut’s style, the Hufeisensiedlung and surrounding streets boast colourful balconies and doorways, crisp design elements and plenty of green space. It represents a calmer, prettier side of Neukölln, often described in articles about gentrification as Berlin’s gritty nightlife district. • The horseshoe of flats is arranged around a central garden, complete with pond, and a gravelled path that allows visitors to admire the views from every angle . • The heritage protected part of the Hufeisensiedlung, which was built between 1925 and 1930, extends over a total of six building sections and an area of around 29 hectares. • The facades of the terraced houses are painted in dark red, yellow ochre and - especially at the end of a terraced row – in deep blue or gleaming white. • Doors and windows and individual building elements of the blocks of flats like loggias, stairwells or low-ceilinged attic floors are painted to contrast clearly with the facades. • The front and rear sections are often designed in separate colour combinations. • Further contrasts in material and colour are created by the use of bright red and yellow clinker bricks in the area of the chimneys, the entrances and the base of the walls. • the most striking design feature is the construction and colour of the entrance doors