Steel pavilion bruno taut biography

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German architect. He worked with Theodor Fischer (–8), then practised with Franz Hoffmann (d.), designing several works before gaining critical attention with his Steel Industry Pavilion at the International Building Trades Exhibition, Leipzig ().

In that year he met Adolf Behne and Paul Scheerbart, whose ideas about glass in architecture influenced Taut, notably in his Expressionism, and in his brother, Max, joined the firm, which became Brothers Taut & Hoffmann.

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Taut also became adviser to the German Garden City movement. At the Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne () his polygonal Glass Pavilion with dome-like roof (constructed of a space-frame with diamond-shaped glass panels) employed glass of various forms and colours, and water cascades as well.

It caused something of a sensation, and is his most celebrated work, a paradigm of Expressionism.

During the –18 war he published Pacifist polemical works, some of which came out as Alpin Architektur (Alpine Archite