Weissenhof Estate, Stuttgart
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1927
In this prototype housing estate, 17 European architects, among them Le Corbusier, J.J.P. Oud, Hans Scharoun, Victor Bourgeois, Richard Döcker, Josef Frank, Walter Gropius, Mart Stam and Peter Behrens, built 21 buildings with a total of 60 flats. Mies participated with a four-storey residential block of four row houses. In the 12 rental units, which Mies had arranged and furnished by 29 interior designers, he realised the concept of a flexible floor plan for the first time, facilitated by the use of moveable dividing walls in a skeleton construction.
Schulte, Karin (1998): Die Weissenhof-Siedlung, in: Mies van der Rohe – Möbel und Bauten in Stuttgart, hg. v. Vegesack, Alexander von / Kries, Matthias, Barcelona, Brno, Weil, S. 136-155.