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- In collaboration with the critic Adolf Behne, Taut gradually transferred ideas from Expressionist painting to tecture and helped move his designs, and with it modern architecture more generally, from on visual "objects/' to multisensory "experiences," an idea that continues to resonate in installations today.
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Bruno Julius Florian Taut (4 May 1880 – 24 December 1938) was a renowned German architect, urban planner and author of Prussian Lithuanian heritage ("taut" means "nation" in Lithuanian). He was active during the Weimar period and is known for his theoretical works as well as his building designs.
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His post-WWI designs and theories established his status as a revolutionary and innovate architect. In 1918, he was appointed the chairman of the Arbeitstrat fur Kunst. The following year, he published “Alpine Architektur”, a book containing his designs and drawings based on an ideological utopia.
Apr 26, 2017 · In 1917, he published a collection of fairy-tale-esque drawings under the name ‘Alpine Architektur’, which consisted of 30 plates depicting a city in the Alps. The vision was of a perfectly structured universe with buildings reaching higher and higher into the illuminated sky.
Bruno Julius Florian Taut (4 May 1880 – 24 December 1938) was a renowned German architect, urban planner and author of Prussian Lithuanian heritage ("taut" means "nation" in Lithuanian). He was active during the Weimar period and is known for his theoretical works as well as his building designs.
Taut is best known for his theoretical work, speculative writings and a handful of exhibition buildings. Taut's best-known single building is the prismatic dome of the Glass Pavilion at the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition (1914).
As the work of an émigré architect, expelled from Germany in 1933, it is not only a product of Taut’s broader horizons through his experiences as an exile in Japan and Turkey, but also as a result of his confrontation with the modernization process under Atatürk’s new republic.
This paper investigates how the architect Bruno Taut (1880–1938) developed a new religiosity for modern times and reconceptualized the notion of “sacred space” for European modernity in terms of reconnecting human beings with each other and the local environment.
