Emil Fahrenkamp (November 8, 1885 - May 24 1966) was a German architect and professor, one of the most prominent architects of the interwar period, best known for his 1930 Shell House in Berlin.
Fahrenkamp was born in Aachen, and came to Duesseldorf to work in the office of Wilhelm Kreis from 1909 to 1912. He became assistant, then professor at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art. His work in the 1920s and early 1930s can be seen as an integration of progressive Neues Bauen (simplified forms, flat roofs, repeated window patterns) with features of traditional styles. Düsseldorf in Germany The Düsseldorf Coat of Arms Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ... Wilhelm Kreis was one of Adolph Hitlers architects. ...
During the war Fahrenkamp accepted commissions from the National Socialists, although he considered himself apolitical. After the war he remained active as an architect but withdrew from public life. The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ...
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