1927 was designed by the architect Le Corbusier two landmark residences for the Stuttgart Weissenhof Estate. Now it has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It is one of the more powerful and best photos of modernity: In front of a white and slender, elegant building is a dark car, a Mercedes. By this, one foot casually on the running board, leaning a sophisticated young woman dressed. With her short haircut she looks so life-affirming, as if they would rather leave instead for shopping in the future
The photo -. It is not from the Baudokumentationsabteilung but by the advertising department of the company Daimler and from 1927 – brings modernity to the point. It aims at a progressive society to self-confident women, the cars drive (unheard of at the beginning of the 20th century), on people who are mobile – and their properties look like sleek steamer who also want to take the same. From here, from this photo, took modernity not only as a building, but even more as a way of life and mentality ride on.
On Saturday was this and a second in 1927 built by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret residential buildings explained in the Stuttgart Weissenhof estate Unesco world heritage site – together with 15 other buildings of the French-Swiss architect in seven countries. These include the government building in Chandigarh, India, and the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. Among the other new entries Heritage ensemble of buildings by Oscar Niemeyer was the Brazilian Pampulha. Originally, the decision had to fall as early as Saturday. The World Heritage Committee, which met in Istanbul had, but his session interrupted because of the attempted coup in Turkey.
Daytime disappeared the bed in the closet. The idea came from the night trains
The application for which accommodate 17 buildings by Le Corbusier (1887 bis 1965) in the world heritage list, France, Argentina, Belgium, Japan, Switzerland, Germany and India had submitted jointly , Previously, they had been rejected twice. The universal significance Corbusier had not yet proven, it had then told.
The Weißenhofsiedlung, also called Werkbundsiedlung, der Rohe designed the German Werkbund under the direction of Ludwig Mies van. Involved were important representatives of the Bauhaus and the De Stijl movement. It was a kind of built exhibition with walk, often commercial or rentable exhibits. Title: “The apartment”. It was intended as a bold experiment. There new building materials have been tried, you tried to modern construction technologies. was experimenting with new forms of living.
Also the resting almost dainty columns, narrow is pulling in the length of semi-detached house is to be understood as a laboratory of life. And as a laboratory building practice because Corbusier had much too late and many curses of Mies van der Rohe his plans submitted. To the supervision he cared between many other appointments hardly.
Actually, so you need to also acknowledge the architect Alfred Roth, who oversaw the construction and had to realize some without detailed planning. The “artist architect”, ie someone who is a genius, but does not care about costs and schedules, is indeed quite also an invention of the 20th century, at the Le Corbusier was involved. Even today, architects effort therefore to revise this image of architecture.
Le Corbusier was ahead of its time too far. The house stood empty for long, it was considered a “unvermietbar”
Of the original 33 buildings of Weißenhofsiedlung are now only eleven. Here Le Corbusier’s double house is now more relevant than ever. It is a space-saving wonder what it would be in demand again in times of housing and densification. In the apartments you could let the beds disappear in a kind of bedside cabinet daytime. Corbusier had been inspired to do so by the night trains.
Also, the flexible, adaptable and modular changeable housing, as it is in vogue today, was tested for the first time in Stuttgart. Unfortunately Corbusier was ahead of its time too far. For years the house was empty, it was considered a “unvermietbar”. Residing in the visitors presented as too used to.
Behind the façade is a transitory window band, typical of Corbusier in horizontal proportions, lurking narrow corridors and small rooms on the residents. But outside the house makes great. This is the deep cut on the ground floor and on the striking Dachrahmung. The rooftop behind it was an innovation. Previously had only locks walkable roofs – now also apartments for the middle and lower classes should be equipped with it
The duplex, also bautypologisch a novelty acts glamorous and extravagant in this way, while behind the facade though. marvel chamber experiment, but also to endure a certain amount is US. But this also applies to other buildings of the settlement, as for detached by Mart Stam or Josef Frank’s double house.
Le Corbusier’s second Stuttgarter Werkbund, House Citrohan on Bruckmannweg, however, is designed a bit more conventional. It was not nearly as well known as the semi-detached house at the Rathenaustraße. However, what was also due to the lady with hat and car.
The Nazis want Weißenhofsiedlung not incidentally. It circulated postcards caricatured the white flat roof homes of modernity with camels and date palms as Orient spinning. The decision of Unesco means discovering so far a complete rehabilitation.
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