Adolf Meyer

A Bauhaus Experimental House

Bauhausbücher 3

Adolf Meyer was Walter Gropius’s right-hand man, his planner and close confidant. As early as 1910, they jointly created the Fagus Factory, one of the most important modernist buildings. The experimental single-family home “Haus am Horn” was built for the first Bauhaus exhibition, in the summer of 1923 in Weimar. The house was planned by Georg Muche (design) and the architectural department at the Bauhaus. Adolf Meyer and Walter March were responsible for construction management.

The book about the project was compiled in the summer of 1924 and became the third volume of the Bauhausbücher. Following an essay by Walter Gropius that supplies information on the “Housing Industry,” Georg Muche presents the design of the model building. Adolf Meyer then describes its technical execution, giving details on the companies involved.

The series is published with the generous support of the Rudolf-August Oetker-Stiftung.

Adolf Meyer was Walter Gropius’s right-hand man, his planner and close confidant. As early as 1910, they jointly created the Fagus Factory, one of the most important modernist buildings. The experimental single-family home “Haus am Horn” was built for the first Bauhaus exhibition, in the summer of 1923 in Weimar. The house was planned by Georg Muche (design) and the architectural department at the Bauhaus. Adolf Meyer and Walter March were responsible for construction management.

The book about the project was compiled in the summer of 1924 and became the third volume of the Bauhausbücher. Following an essay by Walter Gropius that supplies information on the “Housing Industry,” Georg Muche presents the design of the model building. Adolf Meyer then describes its technical execution, giving details on the companies involved.

The series is published with the generous support of the Rudolf-August Oetker-Stiftung.

Author(s): Adolf Meyer

Edited by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy (original series), Lars Müller (English edition) in collaboration with Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin

With a contribution by Walter Gropius, Georg Muche

Design: László Moholy-Nagy (original German edition)

18 × 23 cm, 7 × 9 in

80 pages, 60 illustrations

hardback

2020, 978-3-03778-627-7, English
CHF 40.00

Adolf Meyer

From 1895 to 1897 Adolf Meyer completed an apprenticeship as an art carpenter in Mechernich in the Eifel. After working as a carpenter in Cologne, Krefeld, and Düsseldorf, he went to the Kunstgewerbeschulen (Schools of Applied Arts) in Cologne and later in Düsseldorf in 1904. In 1910 Walter Gropius hired him as head clerk of his studio. During this time they erected the Fagus factory Karl Benscheidt in Alfeld and the building of the Cologne Werkbund exhibition. After his military service in 1919 he became head of Walter Gropius’ construction studio and extraordinary Master of Architecture at the Bauhaus. With Walter March he took over the construction management of the model house Am Horn and was also responsible for the typographical editing of the third volume of the Bauhaus book Ein Versuchshaus. After the closure of the Bauhaus, Meyer remained in Weimar and worked as a freelance architect. In 1926 he was government building officer in Frankfurt am Main, headed the building consultancy of the municipal building department, and taught at the Frankfurt Art School. In 1929 Adolf Meyer drowned while bathing in the North Sea off Baltrum.

Albert Gleizes

Cubism

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