Weissenhof Quarter 1927

Weissenhof Quarter Stuttgart 1927. Plan dwg. Built on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Deutscher Werkbund.

The Weissenhof district (in German Weißenhofsiedlung) is a district built in Stuttgart in 1927, on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Deutscher Werkbund. It was a sort of international “showcase” to show the architectural and social innovations proposed by the Modern Movement. The complex included twenty-one buildings, for a total of sixty homes, designed by sixteen European architects, most of them German.

Mies van der Rohe was entrusted with the management of the project as architectural director. of the Werkbund and it was he who chose the architects, distributed the lots and funds, and supervised the entire project.