Hannes meyer biography of martin kieran

Meyer was born in Basel , Switzerland, trained as a mason, and practiced as an architect in Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany. From to , he briefly served as a department manager at the Krupp works in Essen. Between and , Meyer completed planning the housing estate "Freidorf" near the Swiss city of Basel.

The radical functionalism of Hannes Meyer, the second director of the Bauhaus who wrote in that “the idea of the 'composition of a dock.

We examine the daily routine of everyone who lives in the house and this gives us the functional diagram - the functional diagram and the economic programme are the determining principles of the building project. Neither was built. The Petersschule was designed to be a new primary school for girls, such that the school itself would be raised as high above the ground as possible to allow for sunlight and fresh air.

Walter Gropius appointed Meyer director of the Bauhaus architecture department when it was finally established during April , though Mart Stam had been Gropius's first choice. Meyer brought his radical functionalist philosophy which he named, during , Die neue Baulehre the new way to build. He was dismissed for allegedly politicizing the school.

Meyer brought the two most significant building commissions for the school, both of which still exist. The apartments are considered to be 'real' Bauhaus buildings because they originated with the Bauhaus department of Architecture. It was the second largest project ever undertaken by the Bauhaus, after the Bauhaus school buildings in Dessau. The building now has historic protection status and it experienced an extensive restoration which was completed during Walter Gropius appointed Meyer to replace him as the school's director on 1 April In the increasingly dangerous political era of the Weimar Republic , Dessau's Mayor, Hesse, alleged that Meyer allowed a Communist student organization to flourish and bring bad publicity to the school, threatening its survival.

Hesse dismissed Meyer as head of the Bauhaus school, with a monetary settlement, on 1 August As head of the Bauhaus, I fought the Bauhaus style".