Weissenhof 1927 and the Modern Movement in Architecture

by Richard Pommer and Christian F. Otto

In the summer of 1927, in a suburb of Stuttgart, an exhibition housing settlement built by sixteen of the leading architects of the Modern Movement opended to the public. Greeted as a major event by advocates and opponents of the new architecture, the Weissenhof Siedling continues to excite strong interest. This unusally cohesive yet varied group of apartment buildings, row houses, and single-family houses--hailed by Philip Johnson as "the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226675157
• ISBN13: 9780226675152
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"