Max Taut

max Taut (born the May 15th 1884 with Königsberg at the time in Germany - died the February 26th 1967 with Berlin) was a German Architecte .

Biography

Max Taut was the young brother of the architect Bruno Taut. In the Twenties it built buildings of offices for trade unions. He was member of the Gläserne Kette , of the Novembergruppe and the think tank of avant-garde Zehnerring . Its most important work includes/understands the building of the printers in Dudenstraße in Berlin (1924-1926) and the stores of the co-operative of consumers with Oranienplatz always in Berlin (1929-1932).

The importance of its work lies initially in the development of structures post/beam which expressed construction and symbolized the democratic opening of construction.

After the Second world war it created a new school of architecture in the Universität der Künste (University of Arts) of Berlin. Its work of post-war period includes/understands the Reutersiedlung in Bonn (1948-1952) and the college Ludwig George in Darmstadt (1951-1952).

Max Taut was buried in the cemetery of the Choriner monastery.

Its work

Janusz-Korczak College, old school of boys with Finsterwalde (1913)
Administrative buildings of the German general confederation of the trade unions (Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund) in Berlin-Mitte (1922-1923)
Two houses in the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart (1927).
Old federal house of the German printers in Berlin-Kreuzberg (1924 - 1926)
Alexander-von-Humboldt College in Berlin-Köpenick, at the time called Oberlyzeum “Dorotheenschule” (1929)
House of the trade unions Francfort-sur-le-Main (1929 - 1931)
School complex of Nöldnerplatz to Berlin Lichtenberg (1927 - 1932)
College Ludwig George with Darmstadt

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