Already Taut's early work – Garden City Falkenberg – excellently captures the main ideas of his creation, namely the human dimension of buildings, healthy living, organic connections between urban development and landscape, and the use of unconventional combinations of vivid colors. His Glass Pavilion, presented to the public at the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne, became an iconic building of modernism. With his timeless ideas, Taut significantly contributed to the reform of housing in Germany. Evidence of this is more than 12,000 new apartments that were built according to his designs in Berlin over eight years. Four of his housing estates have even been included on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list since 2008.
Bruno Taut was also an active member of many artistic associations and state institutions and became the author of several theoretical publications. His connection with the Czech environment cannot be overlooked either. In the first half of the 1920s, he was in contact with Czech critic Bohumil Markalouse and the magazine Bytová kultura, and a detail of the glass exhibition tower of the Brno Exhibition Center was even used for the frontispiece of Taut's book “Die neue Baukunst in Europa und Amerika”.
An architect – a visionary, who excelled in the use of incredible color combinations and a strong social consciousness, and whose architecture hovers between functionalism and expressionism, will be presented to the public in the Czech Republic in a comprehensive exhibition for only the second time. The exhibition was prepared by the Berlin studio Brenne Architekten and Werkbund Berlin, and will be on display in the former kitchen of the Stiassni villa from May 20 to June 26 during the opening hours of the villa.
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