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Mart Stam (1899 - 1986) was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and chair designer. Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th century European architecture, including chair design at the Bauhaus, the Weissenhof Siedlung, an important modernist landmark factory in Rotterdam, buildings for Ernst May's Weimar Frankfurt housing project then to Russia with the idealistic May Brigade, to postwar reconstruction in Germany. The Bauhaus Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. ...
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Stam studied at the Royal School for Advanced Studies in Amsterdam, then worked as a draftsman in an architectural practice through the year 1922. In Zurich in 1923 he co-founded the magazine 'ABC Beitrage zum Bauen' (Contributions on Building) with architect Hans Schmidt, future Bauhaus director and Swiss communist Hannes Meyer, and El Lissitzky. Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,295 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 4°89E - 52°37N Website www. ...
General view showing Grossmünster church. ...
The Bauhaus Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. ...
Lazar Mikhailovitch Lissitsky (also known as El) (November 23, 1890 - December 30, 1941) was one of the main disciples of Kazimir Malevich. ...
Stam is also credited for at least part of the design of the Van Nelle Fabriek in Rotterdam, built from 1926 through 1930 (dates vary). This coffee and tea factory is still a powerful, gorgeous example of early modernist industrial architecture, recently rehabilitated into offices. An embarrasing dispute over the authorship of this design caused Stam to leave the office of Leen Van der Vlugt, the credited designer. Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands (after Amsterdam), located in the province of South Holland. ...
After moving to Berlin, in 1926 Stam devised the prototypical steel-tubing cantilever chair and took a prototype to a conference to prepare for the Weissenhof Siedlung. This immediately inspired variations on the tubular-steel theme by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, and Eileen Gray, and began an entire genre of chair design. A cantilever chair has no back legs, relying for support on the tensile properties of the material from which it is made (originally steel tubing). ...
The reconstructed Barcelona Pavilion Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies) (March 27, 1886 - August 17, 1969) was an architect and designer. ...
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Bibendum chair by Eileen Gray E1027 table by Eileen Gray Eileen Gray (August 9, 1878 – October 31, 1976) was an Irish lacquer artist, furniture designer, and architect now well-known for incorporating luxurious lacquer work into the stark International Style aesthetic. ...
Stam actually contributed a house to the 1927 Weissenhof Siedlung, the permanent housing project developed and presented by the exhibition "Die Wohnung" ("The Dwelling"), organized by the Deutscher Werkbund in Stuttgart. This put him in a class with Le Corbusier, Peter Behrens, Bruno Taut, Hans Poelzig, and Walter Gropius, and the exhibition had as many as 20,000 visitors a day. The Deutscher Werkbund (English: German Association of Craftsmen) was an association of artists, founded in 1907 in München by Hermann Muthesius, promoting innovation in applied arts and architecture through good design and craftmanship. ...
Stuttgart, a city located in southern Germany, is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of approximately 600,000 as of June 2004. ...
The Villa Savoye near Paris Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887–August 27, 1965) was a Swiss architect famous for what is now called the International Style, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Theo van Doesburg. ...
Peter Behrens (April 14, 1868–February 27, 1940) was a German architect and designer. ...
Bruno Julius Florian Taut (May 4, 1880, Konigsberg, Germany - December 24, 1938, Istanbul), was a prolific German architect, urban planner and author active in the Weimar period. ...
Hans Poelzig (April 30, 1869 Berlin - June 14, 1936 Berlin) was a German architect active in the Weimar years. ...
Walter Adolph Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus. ...
In 1927 he became a founding member, with Gerrit Rietveld and Hendrik Petrus Berlage, of the Congrès Internationaux d`Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Red and Blue chair Lamp, designed by Rietveld Rietveld-Schröder house Gerrit Rietveld (Utrecht June 24, 1888 – Utrecht June 26, 1964), was a Dutch designer, architect and cabinet maker. ...
Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934) was a prominent Dutch architect. ...
In 1930 Stam became one of the 20 architects and urban planners organized by Frankfurt city planner Ernst May who traveled together to the Soviet Union to create a string of new Stalinist cities, including Magnitogorsk. The "May Brigade" included Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, her husband Wilhelm Schuette, and Hans Schmidt. Stam was there in February 1931 to participate in the struggle to build rational worker housing from the ground up, an effort ultimately defeated by adverse weather, corruption, and poor design decisions. Stam moved to planning activities in Makeyevka in Ukraine in 1932, then to Orsk, with his friend Hans Schmidt (again) and with Bauhaus student and future wife Lotte Beese, then to the copper-mining Soviet city of Balgash. Stam returned to the Netherlands in 1934. Frankfurt am Main? [ˈfraÅ‹kfÊŠrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany. ...
Ernst May (July 27, 1886 Frankfurt am Main - September 11, 1970 Hamburg, Germany) was a German architect and city planner. ...
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (January 23, 1897 – January 18, 2000) was the first female Austrian architect and an activist in the anti-Nazi resistance movement. ...
Stam was later named director of the Institute of Industrial Art in the Netherlands. From 1948 to 1952 he moved to postwar Germany, with its major reconstruction projects. In 1948 he took a professorship at the Academy of Figurative Arts in Dresden and began advocating a modern, strict structure for the heavily destroyed city, a plan which most of the citizens rejected as an "all-out attack on the identity of the city", and which would have obliterated most of the city's remaining landmarks. In 1950 Stam became director of the Advanced Institute of Art in Berlin. Returning to Amsterdam in 1953, beginning in about 1966 Stam and his wife moved to Switzerland and withdrew from public view. Brühls Terrace and the Frauenkirche Dresden? [ˈdreËsdnÌ©] (Sorbian/Lusatian Drježdźany = the people who live in the marshy woods), the capital city of the German federal state of Saxony, is situated in a valley on the river Elbe. ...
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