Quartiere Weissenhof 1927

Neighbourhood Weissenhof Stuttgart 1927. Planimetry dwg. Built for the exhibition organised by the Deutscher Werkbund.

The Weissenhof district (in German Weißenhofsiedlung) is a district built in Stuttgart in 1927 for the exhibition organised by the Deutscher Werkbund. It was a kind of international ‘showcase’ to display the innovations, both architectural and social, proposed by the Modern Movement. It included twenty-one buildings, with a total of sixty dwellings, 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 plots and funds, and supervised the entire project.