MEYER, HANNES

hänˈəs mīˈər, 1889–1954, Swiss architect. Meyer was a lecturer and studio master at the Bauhaus in Dessau. He succeeded Gropius as its director (1928–30). Meyer is noted for his rejection of the concept of individual design in favor of designs produced by the collaboration of architects. He worked in Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, and the USSR. One of his best-known designs is the German Trades Union School at Bernau (1928–30).

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books on: Meyer Hannes  - 76 results

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The Politics of Music in the Third Reich
Book by Michael Meyer; Peter Lang, 1993
Subjects: Music--Germany--20th Century--History And Criticism, National Socialism And Music
Kreiten, Theo 248 Kremer, Hannes 251 Krenek, Ernst 11 , 60 , 123 , 273 , 294 , 298 , 308 , 380 Kreuder, Peter 170 Kreutzberg, Harold 236 , 264 Kreutzer, Leonid...
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Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture - Vol. 2
Book by R. Stephen Stennott; Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004
Subjects: Architecture, Modern--20th Century--Encyclopedias
...Posthumanist Subject: The Architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer , Cambridge...Production Cooperative: The Director Hannes Meyer in Bauhaus , edited by Jeannine...Cologne: Konemann, 1999 Meyer, Hannes, Bauen und Gesellschaft: Schriften...
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The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics
Book by Eva Forgacs, John Batki; Central European University Press, 1995
Subjects: Bauhaus--History
...Metropolis 125 Meumann, Klaus 179 Meyer, Adolf 65, 66, 1 12. 129, 164...and Gropius 32, 61, 133, 206n Meyer. Hannes 1 16, 153-S, 156-7, 159...163 see also Gropius. Wolter, and Hannes Meyer Meyer. Otto 207n Michaud...
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Leopoldo Mbendez: Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print
Book by Deborah Caplow; University of Texas Press, 2007
Subjects: Art And Society--Mexico--History--20th Century, Maendez, Leopoldo--1902-1969--Criticism And Interpretation, Taller De Graafica Popular (Mexico City, Mexico)
...Mexikansk Konst. Stockholm: Liljevalchs Konsthall, 1952. Meyer, Hannes. El Taller de Grafica Popular. Graphis (Zurich...of twelve years of collective work. Introduction by Hannes Meyer. Prologue by Leopoldo M6ndez. Mexico City: La Estampa...
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Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture - Vol. 2
Book by Michael S. Werner; Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997
Subjects: Mexico--Civilization--Encyclopedias
...Mexico: Su evolucion social Sierra , 647, 1343 Mexico viejo Gonzalez Obregon , 1139 Meyer, Hannes, 92-93 Meyer, Jean, 184, 649, 871 , 872 , 947 Meyer, Lorenzo, 185, 650, 667-68 Meyer, Michael C., 649, 1607 Meyer, Rosa Maria...
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journal articles on: Meyer Hannes  - 20 results

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Scientific Management's Lost Aesthetic: Architecture, Organization, and the Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical
Journal article by Mauro F. Guillen; Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 42, 1997
Subjects: Aesthetics--Analysis, Architecture--Social aspects, Engineering--Social aspects, Industrial management--Analysis, Modernism (Art)--Analysis, Organizational research--Analysis
...than mere designers of good-looking buildings. For Hannes Meyer, the architect "was an artist and is becoming a specialist...social problems by increasing the size of the pie. As Hannes Meyer stated in 1926, "The new artwork is a collective work...
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A Pioneer 'global Intelligence Corps'? the Internationalisation of Planning Practice, 1890-1939
Journal article by Stephen V. Ward; The Town Planning Review, Vol. 76, 2005
Subjects: Consulting firms, Globalization, Professional practice, Urban development
...Swiss former head of the Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer, played an important, though ultimately...This was true of, for example, Hannes Meyer and Fred Forbat, and others...planning (Sewell, 1993, 53-76). Hannes Meyer played a significant role in...
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Living Life in Pictures: Isotype as Modernist Cultural Practice
Journal article by Michelle Henning; New Formations, 2010
...life via his involvement with the Dessau Bauhaus under Hannes Meyer. Galison points out that, Throughout their writings...Dessau Bauhaus after 1928 (when it was directed by Hannes Meyer) and the architectural projects in which Neurath was...
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Anonymous Textiles, Patented Domains: the Invention (And Death) of an Author
Journal article by T'Ai Smith; Art Journal, Vol. 67, 2008
Subjects: Art, Design, Historians, Patents, Textiles
...1928, the new director, Hannes Meyer, only increased the...institution as a corporate entity. Meyer called on the workshops to...the Bauhaus achieved, with Meyers tenure, the most explicitly...Bauhaus, Baumhoff describes how Meyers concept of collectivity and...weaving workshops products: Meyer strongly opposed aesthetics...remain anonymous. During Meyers tenure, one third of the...
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Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy. the Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia out in the Cold
Journal article by Milka Bliznakov; Utopian Studies, Vol. 16, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold (Book)--Book reviews
...engineer and planners were invited to work in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s. The groups of Ernst May and Hannes Meyer moved from Germany to Moscow in 1930. These two groups participated in the design and construction of Magnitogorsk...
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magazine articles on: Meyer Hannes  - 18 results

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Monument: Antimonument
Magazine article by Jeremy Melvin; The Architectural Review, Vol. 212, October 2002
...thought that his near contemporary Hannes Meyers claim that architecture function...architects who came close to sharing Meyers puritanical Func tionalism had...ignores the Expressionists. Only Hannes Meyer spoke out explicitly: Architecture...
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Previews: Three Times a Year Artforum Looks Ahead to the Coming Season. the Following Survey Previews Fifty Shows Opening around the World between September and December
Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 45, September 2006
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Evaluation, Art museum curators--Management, Art--Evaluation, Art--Exhibitions
...two--Constructivism in Moscow and the Bauhaus under Hannes Meyer--the artists had direct contact and conflict with Kandinsky...KUNST October 18, 2006-January 21, 2007 Curated by Eva Meyer-Hermann and Stephanie Rosenthal ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
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Mertins Has Interesting Things to Say on Every Theme He Touches
Magazine article by Richard Weston; The Architectural Review, Vol. 230, September 2011
Subjects: Architecture Words 7: Modernity Unbound (Nonfiction work), Books--Book reviews
...example, proved to be a decisive influence upon such disparate figures as Kurt Schwitters and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hannes Meyer and Mies van der Rohe. Flowing freely across the supposed divides constructed by many mainstream histories, their...
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Brandt Conscious
Magazine article by Louis Hellman; The Architectural Review, Vol. 220, September 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Tempo, Tempo: The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt (Book)--Book reviews
...for various industries but her brilliant career was ended by a combination of the depression, new Bauhaus director Hannes Meyer (who combined the metal and cabinet-making workshops into an interior design department), and the rise of the Nazis...
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Cranked Krankenhaus
Magazine article by Peter Blundell Jones; The Architectural Review, Vol. 198, October 1995
Subjects: Hospitals--Design and construction
...the kind of quantitative functionalism first advocated by Hannes Meyer.(3) So many are the rules and regulations, so strict...group theory, but also a telling metaphor for architects. 3 Meyers manifesto Bauen, published at the Bauhaus in 1928, epitomises...
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newspaper articles on: Meyer Hannes  - 3 results

 
 
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Homework for Grown-Ups; Everything You Learnt at School. but Can You Remember?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 12, 2011
...bread d) wine 9. Who founded the Bauhaus art movement in Weimar, Germany, in 1919? a) Mies van der rohe b) hannes Meyer c) Walter Gropius d) Wassily Kandinsky 10. Where were the first Commonwealth Games (then called the British Empire...
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Golf Previews
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 19, 2006
...quick." Elk Grove Coach: Mike Meyer (fifth year) Home Course...keep up with the Joneses as Meyer will be counting on Brian and...boys could be our stars," Meyer said. "Eric played very well...Larson, Shaun Levine; sophomore Hannes Seeman Outlook: It was another...
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Lying in Wait for the Lions; Your Full Guide to the Stadiums and Teams McGeechan's Boys Will Visit on Their 10-Match South African Tour
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 25, 2009
...Key players (possible): Michael Bondesio, Dennis Brits, Hannes Franklin. History: An invitational team likely to comprise...Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales) Coach (possible): Heyneke Meyer. Key players (possible): Michael Vermaak, Solly Tybilika...


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encyclopedia articles on: Meyer Hannes  - 2 results

 
 
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Meyer, Hannes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MEYER, HANNES han s mi r, 1889 1954, Swiss architect. Meyer was a lecturer and studio master at the Bauhaus in Dessau. He succeeded Gropius as its director (1928 30). Meyer is noted for his rejection of the concept of individual...
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Bauhaus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...buildings to house the various departments. Gropius resigned in 1928, and the leadership was continued by the architect Hannes Meyer , who in turn was replaced in 1930 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe . In the summer of 1932 opposition to the school had...


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