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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).[1]

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  1. 88 relations: Adolf Behne, Ankara, Ankara Atatürk High School, Ankara University, Arbeitsrat für Kunst, Architect, Atami, Baugewerkschule, Königsberg, Berlin, Berlin Modernism Housing Estates, Britz, Bruno Möhring, Carl Krayl, Catafalque, Cesar Klein, Cologne, Color, Deutsche Wohnen, Deutscher Werkbund, Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery, Einstein Tower, England, Expressionism, Franz Hillinger, Garden city movement, Gary Berkovich, German Empire, German revolution of 1918–1919, Glass Pavilion, Gunma Prefecture, Hamburg, Hermann Beims estate, Hermann Muthesius, Housing cooperative, Hufeisensiedlung, Ise Shrine, Istanbul, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Jugendstil, Katsura Imperial Villa, Königsberg, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Magdeburg, Markus Breitschmid, Martin Wagner (architect), Masonry, Max Taut, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Modernism, ... Expand index (38 more) »

  2. Architects from Königsberg
  3. Burials at Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery
  4. Expressionist architects
  5. German architecture writers
  6. German expatriates in Japan
  7. German expatriates in Turkey
  8. German urban planners
  9. Housing in Germany
  10. Modernist architects from Germany
  11. Weimar culture

Adolf Behne

Adolf Bruno Behne (13 July 1885 – 22 August 1948) was a German critic, art historian, architectural writer, and artistic activist. Bruno Taut and Adolf Behne are 20th-century German architects, architectural theoreticians, Expressionist architects and German architecture writers.

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Ankara

Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (4,130 km2).

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Ankara Atatürk High School

Ankara Atatürk High School (Ankara Atatürk Lisesi), is an Anatolian High School located near Sıhhiye district of Çankaya, Ankara.

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Ankara University

Ankara University (Ankara Üniversitesi) is a public university in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey.

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Arbeitsrat für Kunst

The Arbeitsrat für Kunst (German: 'Workers council for art' or 'Art Soviet') was a union of architects, painters, sculptors and art writers, who were based in Berlin from 1918 to 1921.

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings.

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Atami

is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Baugewerkschule, Königsberg

The Baugewerkschule was a building trades school in Königsberg, Germany.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Berlin Modernism Housing Estates

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates (Siedlungen der Berliner Moderne) is a World Heritage Site designated in 2008, comprising six separate subsidized housing estates in Berlin. Bruno Taut and Berlin Modernism Housing Estates are housing in Germany.

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Britz

Britz is a German locality (Ortsteil) within the Berlin borough (Bezirk) of Neukölln.

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Bruno Möhring

Bruno Möhring (11 December 1863 – 25/26 March 1929) was a German architect, urban planner, designer and a professor in Berlin. Bruno Taut and Bruno Möhring are 20th-century German architects, architects from Königsberg, German urban planners and Technische Universität Berlin alumni.

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Carl Krayl

Carl Christian Krayl (17 April 1890 – 1 April 1947) was a German architect and artist of the early twentieth century, who was associated with several of the leading avant-garde art movements of German Expressionism. Bruno Taut and Carl Krayl are 20th-century German architects and Expressionist architects.

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Catafalque

A catafalque is a raised bier, box, or similar platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of a dead person during a Christian funeral or memorial service.

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Cesar Klein

César Klein (14 September 1876 – 13 March 1954) was a German Expressionist painter and designer, probably best known as one of the founders the November Group and the Arbeitsrat für Kunst.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Color

Color (American English) or colour (British and Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Deutsche Wohnen

Deutsche Wohnen SE is a German property company, and one of the 30 companies that compose the DAX index.

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Deutscher Werkbund

The Deutscher Werkbund (English: "German Association of Craftsmen") is a German association of artists, architects, designers and industrialists established in 1907.

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Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery

The Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery (Edirnekapı Şehitliği), one of the largest burial grounds of Istanbul, Turkey, is located in the neighborhood of Edirnekapı of Eyüp district, in the European part of the city.

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Einstein Tower

The Einstein Tower (German: Einsteinturm) is an astrophysical observatory in the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam, Germany built by architect Erich Mendelsohn.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Expressionism

Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.

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Franz Hillinger

Franz Hillinger (March 30, 1895, in Nagyvárad, Hungary – August 18, 1973, in New York) was an architect of the ''Neues Bauen'' (New Objectivity) movement in Berlin and in Turkey. Bruno Taut and Franz Hillinger are housing in Germany, Technische Universität Berlin alumni and Weimar culture.

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Garden city movement

The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts.

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Gary Berkovich

Gary Berkovich, AIA, NCARB (born May 26, 1935, in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is an American and Soviet architect, and the first Soviet architect of 1960s – 1980s immigration wave, who had opened his office (Gary A. Berkovich Associates, 1987) in the United States.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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German revolution of 1918–1919

The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution (Novemberrevolution), was an uprising started by workers and soldiers in the final days of World War I. It quickly and almost bloodlessly brought down the German Empire, then in its more violent second stage, the supporters of a parliamentary republic were victorious over those who wanted a soviet-style council republic.

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Glass Pavilion

The Glass Pavilion, designed by Bruno Taut and built in 1914, was a prismatic glass dome structure at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition.

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Gunma Prefecture

is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hermann Beims estate

The Hermann Beims Estate (Hermann-Beims-Siedlung) is a social housing project of the 1920s in Magdeburg, Germany.

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Hermann Muthesius

Adam Gottlieb Hermann Muthesius (20 April 1861 – 29 October 1927), known as Hermann Muthesius, was a German architect, author and diplomat, perhaps best known for promoting many of the ideas of the English Arts and Crafts movement within Germany and for his subsequent influence on early pioneers of German architectural modernism such as the Bauhaus. Bruno Taut and Hermann Muthesius are 20th-century German architects, German architecture writers and housing in Germany.

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Housing cooperative

A housing cooperative, or housing co-op, is a legal entity, usually a cooperative or a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure.

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Hufeisensiedlung

The Hufeisensiedlung ("Horseshoe Estate") is a housing estate in Berlin, built in 1925–33. Bruno Taut and Hufeisensiedlung are housing in Germany.

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Ise Shrine

The, located in Ise, Mie Prefecture of Japan, is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the solar goddess Amaterasu.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of California Press on behalf of the Society of Architectural Historians.

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Jugendstil

Jugendstil ("Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910.

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Katsura Imperial Villa

The, or Katsura Detached Palace, is an Imperial residence with associated gardens and outbuildings in the western suburbs of Kyoto, Japan.

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Königsberg

Königsberg (Królewiec, Karaliaučius, Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. Bruno Taut and Le Corbusier are architectural theoreticians.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer. Bruno Taut and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe are 20th-century German architects and modernist architects from Germany.

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Magdeburg

Magdeburg is the capital of the German state Saxony-Anhalt.

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Markus Breitschmid

Markus Breitschmid (born 20 April 1966, Lucerne, Switzerland) is an American architectural theoretician, architect, and the author of several books on contemporary architecture and philosophical aesthetics. Bruno Taut and Markus Breitschmid are architectural theoreticians.

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Martin Wagner (architect)

Martin Wagner (1885–1957) was a German architect, city planner, and author, best known as the driving force behind the construction of modernist housing projects in interwar Berlin. Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner (architect) are 20th-century German architects, housing in Germany and Technische Universität Berlin alumni.

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Masonry

Masonry is the craft of building a structure with brick, stone, or similar material, including mortar plastering which are often laid in, bound, and pasted together by mortar.

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Max Taut

Max Taut (15 May 1884 – 26 February 1967) was a German architect of Prussian Lithuanian heritage. Bruno Taut and Max Taut are 20th-century German architects, architects from Königsberg and Expressionist architects.

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Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University

Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, or MSGSÜ) is a public art university in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, also known as Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 until the Surname Law of 1934 (1881 – 10 November 1938), was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Nikkō

is a city in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

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Ortaköy

Ortaköy (Middle Village) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Beşiktaş, Istanbul Province, Turkey.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Prussian Lithuanians

The Prussian Lithuanians, or Lietuvininkai (singular: Lietuvininkas, plural: Lietuvininkai), are Lithuanians, originally Lithuanian language speakers, who formerly inhabited a territory in northeastern East Prussia called Prussian Lithuania, or Lithuania Minor (Prūsų Lietuva, Mažoji Lietuva, Preußisch-Litauen, Kleinlitauen), instead of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and, later, the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuania Major, or Lithuania proper).

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Sagami Bay

lies south of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshu, central Japan, contained within the scope of the Miura Peninsula, in Kanagawa, to the east, the Izu Peninsula, in Shizuoka Prefecture, to the west, and the Shōnan coastline to the north, while the island of Izu Ōshima marks the southern extent of the bay.

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School of Language and History – Geography

Faculty of Language and History – Geography (Dil ve Tarih – Coğrafya Fakültesi, abbreviated DTCF) is a school of the Ankara University, Turkey.

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Senate of Berlin

The Senate of Berlin (Senat von Berlin; unofficially: Berliner Senat) is the executive body governing the city of Berlin, which at the same time is a state of Germany.

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Shizuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Soviet democracy

Soviet democracy, also called council democracy, is a type of democracy in Marxism, in which the rule of a population is exercised by directly elected soviets (workers' councils).

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Stuttgart

Stuttgart (Swabian: italics) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Takasaki

is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

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Technische Universität Berlin

italic (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany.

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Theodor Fischer

Theodor Fischer (28 May 1862 – 25 December 1938) was a German architect and teacher. Bruno Taut and Theodor Fischer are 20th-century German architects.

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Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

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Trabzon

Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province.

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Truss

A truss is an assembly of members such as beams, connected by nodes, that creates a rigid structure.

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Tsuruga, Fukui

is a city located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Unterriexingen

Unterriexingen is a village in the district of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Urban planner

An urban planner (also known as town planner) is a professional who practices in the field of town planning, urban planning or city planning.

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Utopia

A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.

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Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius are 20th-century German architects and modernist architects from Germany.

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Weimar culture

Weimar culture was the emergence of the arts and sciences that happened in Germany during the Weimar Republic, the latter during that part of the interwar period between Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918 and Hitler's rise to power in 1933.

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Weissenhof Estate

The Weissenhof Estate (German: Weißenhofsiedlung) is a housing estate built for the 1927 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany.

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Werkbund Exhibition (1914)

The first Werkbund Exhibition of 1914 was held at Rheinpark in Cologne, Germany.

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Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden is the capital of the German state of Hesse, and the second-largest Hessian city after Frankfurt am Main.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Worpswede

Worpswede (Northern Low Saxon: Worpsweed) is a municipality in the district of Osterholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Zehlendorf (Berlin)

Zehlendorf is a locality within the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf in Berlin.

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See also

Architects from Königsberg

Burials at Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery

Expressionist architects

German architecture writers

German expatriates in Japan

German expatriates in Turkey

German urban planners

Housing in Germany

Modernist architects from Germany

Weimar culture

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Taut

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