1. Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930.
15 Facts About Hannes Meyer
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Between 1919 and 1921, Hannes Meyer completed planning the housing estate "Freidorf" near the Swiss city of Basel.
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In 1923, Hannes Meyer co-initiated the architectural magazine ABC Beitrage zum Bauen with Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam, and the Suprematist El Lissitzky in Zurich.
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In 1926, Hannes Meyer established a company with Hans Wittwer and produced his two most famous designs, for the Basel Petersschule and for the Geneva League of Nations Building.
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Hannes Meyer brought his radical functionalist philosophy which he named, during 1929, Die neue Baulehre.
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Hannes Meyer's philosophy was that architecture was an organizational task without relationship to aesthetics, that buildings should be low cost and designed to fulfill social needs.
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Hannes Meyer brought the two most significant building commissions for the school, both of which still exist.
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Walter Gropius appointed Hannes Meyer to replace him as the school's director on 1 April 1928.
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Hannes Meyer continued with Gropius' innovations to emphasize designing prototypes for serial mass production and functionalist architecture.
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Hannes Meyer taught at WASI, a Soviet academy for architecture and civil engineering.
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Outside Moscow, Hannes Meyer realised his ideas especially in the recently created Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Soviet Far East.
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Hannes Meyer fell increasingly out of favour with the Stalinist authorities from 1933 onwards.
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Hannes Meyer therefore returned to Geneva in his Swiss homeland in 1936.
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In 1939 Hannes Meyer emigrated to Mexico City to work for the Mexican government as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planificacion from 1939 through 1941.
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Hannes Meyer returned to Switzerland in 1949 and died in 1954.