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The design of the "Rundling" was inspired by ship building
Reconstructed colour scheme in the Ernst-May-House
Typography by Paul Renner who designed in Frankfurt also the typeface "Futura"

New Frankfurt was an affordable public housing program started in 1925 and completed in 1930.[1] It was also the name of the accompanying magazine that was published from 1926 to 1931 dedicated to international tendencies in architecture, the renewal of art, housing and education.

The project was initiated by Frankfurt's mayor Ludwig Landmann, who hired the architect Ernst May as a general manager of many communal departments. Renowned architects like Max Cetto, Martin Elsaesser, Walter Gropius, Ferdinand Kramer, Adolf Meyer, Bruno Taut, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Mart Stam worked in Frankfurt.

Under May 12,000 apartments were built, 2,000 more than planned. The buildings not only met the basic needs of housing, they set standards for urban development and design but brake also with traditional house building. All apartments and mansions were equipped with a Frankfurt kitchen. Catherine Bauer Wurster visited the buildings in 1930 and was inspired by the work of May.[2]

One two-storey terrace house was renovated and restored into the standard of 1928 by the Ernst-May-Society, it is called Ernst May House and is a museum today.

Selected projects

Westhausen
  • Villa May, Frankfurt am Main, 1925
  • Villa Elsaesser, Frankfurt am Main, 1925–1926
  • Estate Höhenblick, Frankfurt am Main, 1926–1927
  • Estate Bruchfeldstraße (Zickzackhausen), Frankfurt am Main, 1926–1927
  • Estate Riederwald, Frankfurt am Main, 1926–1927
  • Estate Praunheim, Frankfurt am Main, 1926–1928
  • Estate Römerstadt, Frankfurt am Main, 1926–1928
  • Estate Bornheimer Hang, Frankfurt am Main, 1926–1930
  • Estate Heimatsiedlung, Frankfurt am Main, 1927–1934
  • Estate Hellerhof, Frankfurt am Main, 1929–1932
  • Röderberg school, Frankfurt am Main, 1929–1930
  • Estate Westhausen, Frankfurt am Main, 1929–1931
  • House in Dornbusch, Frankfurt an Main, 1927–1931

See also

References

  1. ^ MOMA: "The Frankfurt Kitchen". retrieved 11 April 2013
  2. ^ Leill Levine: Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930, 2008 pg.ix
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