„Third Reich“: the Architect Paul Schmitthenner

Wolfgang Voigt, Frankfurt

New Tradition and Politics during Weimar Republic and „Third Reich“: The Architect Paul Schmitthenner

Colloque: „Architectures de la politique, politiques de l’architecture“ Collège de France, Paris 15 June 2018

Le Corbusier House at Weissenhof Settlement Paul Schmitthenner, Debatin House Stuttgart. 1927 Stuttgart. 1928 Edouard Spittler Orphelinat Colmar, Bas-Rhin 1909 Illustration from Revue Alsacienne Illustrée

Paul Schmitthenner (1884-1972) Edouard Spittler Orphelinat Colmar, Bas-Rhin 1909

Paul Schmitthenner (1884-1972)

„Dolder“ City Gate, Riquewihr, Haut-Rhin restored by Paul Schmitthenner ca. 1908 Edouard Spittler Orphanage Colmar, Bas-Rhin 1909

Paul Schmitthenner (1884-1972)

Paul Schmitthenner Customs Station Colmar, Bas-Rhin 1908 Paul Schmitthenner (1884-1972)

Staaken near Berlin Garden City 1914-17

Hans Kampffmeyer: Die Gartenstadtbewegung (The Garden City Movement), 1909 Garden City Scheme after Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities of Tomorrow, 1902 Paul Schmitthenner (1884-1972)

Staaken near Berlin Garden City 1914-17

Staaken: Five standardized Floor Plans Staaken near Berlin Garden City 1914-17

Staaken: Five standardized Floor Plans Staaken near Berlin Holländisches Viertel (Dutch Quarter) Garden City Potsdam 18th Century 1914-17 Berlin ca. 1900, Residential block with speculative housing: High density, dark courts, low standards of hygiene

Paul Schmitthenner: Staaken Garden City, 1914-17 Market Place Max Pechstein: Leaflet of Arbeitsrat für Kunst (Workers Council for the Arts), 1919

Architects as Members of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst (Workers Council for the Arts), 1919/20

Walter Gropius (1883-1969) Bruno Taut (1880-1938) Hans Scharoun (1893-1972) Architects as Members of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst (Workers Council for the Arts), 1919/20

Walter Gropius (1883-1969) Bruno Taut (1880-1938) Hans Scharoun (1893-1972) Bruno Taut „Glashaus“ Pavilion of the Glass Industry Exhibition of the German Werkbund Cologne 1914

Hans Scharoun: „Volkshausblatt“ 1919

Architects as Members of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst (Workers Council for the Arts), 1919/20

Paul Schmitthenner Heinrich Tessenow Walter Curt Behrendt (1884-1972) (1876-1950) (1884-1945)

Die Volkswohnung. Zeitschrift für Wohnungsbau und Siedlungswesen 1919-23 (Review for Housing and Settlement) Weimar Republic Constitution 1919 Article 115: Right to an appropriate habitat Paul Schmitthenner: System of normalized Windows, published in Die Volkswohnung in 1920

Die Volkswohnung. Zeitschrift für Wohnungsbau und Siedlungswesen 1919-23 (Review for Housing and Settlement) Paul Schmitthenner: System of normalized Windows, published in Die Volkswohnung in 1920

Paul Schmitthenner: System of normalized Windows, published in Die Volskwohnung in 1920

Das Neue Frankfurt, Review 1926/27-1931 Ernst May: Window Normalization at „New Frankfurt“ 1927 Franz Schuster „Anbaumöbel“ Sideboard composed from Furniture Kit ca. 1927

Paul Schmitthenner: Model Furniture Staaken near Berlin Garden City of the Reich 1914-17

„Frankfurt Register“ Nr 16 Das Neue Frankfurt, Review 1926/27-1931 Model Furniture for Social Housing Walter Gropius (1883-1969)

Bauhaus Weimar 1919

„Kunst und Handwerk, eine neue Einheit“ (Crafts and Art a new Unity)

Bauhaus Logo 1919-22

Lyonel Feininger Illusttration for the Manifesto of the Bauhaus March 1919 Walter Gropius (1883-1969)

Bauhaus Weimar 1919

„Kunst und Handwerk, eine neue Einheit“ (Crafts and Art a new Unity)

Bauhaus Logo 1922-25

Lyonel Feininger Illustration for the Manifesto of the Bauhaus March 1919 Construction Kit for Typification and Prefabrication of Housing Gropius with Bauhaus Weimar 1923

Walter Gropius (1883-1969)

Bauhaus Weimar 1923

„Kunst und Industrie, eine neue Einheit“ (Industry and and Arts united)

Bauhaus Logo 1922-25

Georg Muche: Model Hluse „Am Horn“, Weimar 1923 Paul Schmitthenner Paul Bonatz (1884-1972) (1878-1956)

„Die Architektur-Schule Stuttgart“ Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst, 1928

Paul Schmitthenner Paul Bonatz (1884-1972) (1878-1956) Bonatz Central Station Stuttgart 1911-1922 (-1927)

Paul Schmitthenner Gartenstadt Ooswinkel Baden-Baden 1918-24 Paul Schmitthenner (1884-1972)

Paul Schmitthenner „Gebaute Form“ (Built Form) (How architectural form is based in detail) Paul Schmitthenner (1884-1972)

Paul Schmitthenner Linsenmayer House Nassach, 1935 Goethe’s „Gartenhaus" Am Horn, Weimar, 18. Century Foto 2005

After Restoration 2010

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) Goethe ’s „Gartenhaus" Am Horn, Weimar, 18. Century Foto 2005 Heinrich Tessenow House in Hellerau Garden City near Dresden, 1910

Villas in ecclectic Historism Berlin, Stuttgart 1895-1904

Goethe’s „Gartenhaus" Am Horn, Weimar, 18. Century Foto 2005 Building Measurement by Student of Schmitthenner, 1920s

Paul Schmitthenner Roser House, Stuttgart 1925

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Mosler House, Berlin 1924-26

Paul Schmitthenner Roser House, Stuttgart 1925

Analysis of Proportions Nicola Panzini, Politecnico di Bari Paul Schmitthenner Bruno Taut Haus in Settlement Fischtalgrund Row Houses in Settlement Onkel Toms Hütte Berlin 1928 Berlin 1926 ff.

Gunnar Asplund. Villa Snellman, Djursholm 1917/18

Paul Schmitthenner Baugestaltung I. Das deutsche Wohnhaus Stuttgart 1932 Deutscher Werkbund (DWB), Weissenhof Settlement with exhibition Die Wohnung, Stuttgart 1927

Day 2 Day 3 Day 6 Paul Schmitthenner: Construction System „Fafa“ (Fabricated Timberwork) Stuttgart 1927/28

Paul Schmitthenner Sander House (Fafa System) Stuttgart 1927/28

Paul Schmitthenner: Schnellbausystem „Fafa“ (Fabriziertes Fachwerk) Stuttgart 1927/28

Paul Schmitthenner Settlement Im Hallschlag, Stuttgart 1929/30

Walter Curt Behrendt (1884-1945)

Walter Curt Behrendt: Der Sieg des neuen Baustils, 1927 (Victory of the new Architectural Style) Walter Curt Behrendt (1884-1945)

Walter Curt Behrendt: Der Sieg des neuen Baustils, 1927 (Victory of the new Architectural Style)

aus: Deutsche Bauhütte, 1928 (A new movement among German Architects. The new Group of Architects „Der Block“) Hans Poelzig Werner Hegemann Fritz Schumacher (1869-1936) (1881-1936) (1869-1947)

aus: Deutsche Bauhütte, 1928 (A new movement among German Architects. The new Group of Architects „Der Block“) Hans Poelzig Werner Hegemann Fritz Schumacher German Bestelmeyer Heinz Stoffregen Hans Hertlein (1869-1936) (1881-1936) (1869-1947) (1874-1942) (1879-1929) (1881-1963)

Paul Schmitthenner Paul Bonatz Paul Schultze-Naumburg (1884-1972) (1878-1956) (1869-1949)

Paul Schultze-Naumburg Kunst und Rasse, 1928 Hans Poelzig Werner Hegemann Fritz Schumacher German Bestelmeyer Heinz Stoffregen Hans Hertlein (1869-1936) (1881-1936) (1869-1947) (1874-1942) (1879-1929) (1881-1963)

Paul Schmitthenner Paul Bonatz Paul Schultze-Naumburg (1884-1972) (1878-1956) (1869-1949)

Alexander Klein (1879-1961) Hans Poelzig German Bestelmeyer Heinz Stoffregen Hans Hertlein (1869-1936) (1874-1942) (1879-1929) (1881-1963)

Paul Schmitthenner Paul Schultze-Naumburg (1884-1972) (1869-1949) AlbertSpeer Flag Decoration National Labour Day 1st of May, 1933

Paul Schmitthenner Roser House Stuttgart 1925 Vocational Schol Stuttgart 1928

Paul Schmitthenner (1884-1972)

„Architecture of the Nazis. May 1933 and before“ Architectural Review (London) 60.1933

Albert Speer and Adolf Hitler with the Model of the German Pavilion at Exposition Internationale, Paris 1937

Paul Schmitthenner: Sketch of a Project for a German Pavilion at Brussels World Fair 1935, not realized

Albert Speer and Adolf Hitler with the Model of the German Pavilion at Exposition Internationale, Paris 1937

Paul Schmitthenner: Sketch of a Project for a German Pavilion at Brussels World Fair 1935, not realized Albert Speer, GBI Office: North South Axis, Plan for Rebuilding Berlin as Capital of the Reich, ca. 1939

Paul Schmitthenner: Das sanfte Gesetz in der Kunst 19411/43 (About the Gentle Law in the Arts)

Paul Schmitthenner: Das sanfte Gesetz in der Kunst 19411/43 (About the Gentle Law in the Arts) Friedrich Tamms: „Das harte Gesetz in der Baukunst“ (About Greatness in Architecture) in: Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich. Baukunst (Review) 1944

Paul Schmitthenner: Polytechnical School at Linz. Court with Arcades and Galleries. 1939. Not realized. Paul Schmitthenner: Assembly Hall for „New Strasbourg“, 1941/42

Paul Schmitthenner: Project for the Competition „New Strasbourg“, 1941/42

Paul Schmitthenner: All-Bank at Koenigsplatz, Stuttgart 1949-55 Wolfgang Voigt, Frankfurt

New Tradition and Politics during Weimar Republic and „Third Reich“: The Architect Paul Schmitthenner

Colloque: „Architectures de la politique, politiques de l’architecture“ Collège de France, Paris 15 June 2018