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Hannes Meyer (18 de Novembro de 1889 – 19 de Julho de 1954), foi um arquitecto suíço e um dos directores de Bauhaus. Hannes Meyer sucedeu a Walter Gropius, mas acabou por ser despedido por ter ligações com o Partido Comunista, o que ia de encontro ao pensamento da política direitista vigente na Alemanha da época.
H. Meyer: Freidorf Dwelling Estate in Muttenz, Switzerland. Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (18 November 1889 – 19 July 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930.
The Bauhaus' second director, Swiss architect Hannes Meyer, led the Bauhaus between the giants of Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe.
Hannes Meyer was an advocate of functionalism and social reform in modern architecture. Meyer’s "scientific" rationalism and negation of aesthetics continue to inspire Marxist theorists today (Hays, 1992).
Under Hannes Meyer the Bauhaus enjoyed a very special period of flourishing. Yet this Director, who took over from Walter Gropius in 1928, rubbed people up the wrong way and was criticised. Why...