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The workshops were laboratories for developing models “ripe for mass production, implements typical of the present day”.

WA LT E R G R O P I U SG R O P I U SG R O P I U SG R O P I U SG R O P I U SG R O I

DIRECTOR: 1 9 1 9 - 1 9 2 8 .

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lo·co·mo·tive/,loke’motiv/

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NESTING TABLES

DESIGNED IN 1926FIT IN TO THEFOOTPRINT OF ONESPACE SAVING ANDF U N C T I O N A L .

DIRECTOR: 1 9 2 8 - 1 9 3 0 .

HANNES MEYER

Meyer brought his radical functionalist viewpoint, in 1929, which he named: Die neue Baulehre (the new way to build), that architecture was an organizational task with no relationship to aesthetics, that buildings should be low cost and designed to fulfill social needs.

LESSIS MORE

ty·pog·ra·phy/ ti’pägrəfē/

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M I E S V A N D E R R O H E .

D I R E C T O R : 1 9 3 0 - 1 9 3 2 .

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