Skogskyrkogården

Skogskyrkogården

Skogskyrkogården / Forest CemeteryCompletion: 1940Location: Stockholm, SwedenDesign: Gunnar AsplundWorld Heritage A communal graveyard on the outskirts of Stockholm. There are three chapels and a crematorium in the vast cemetery. Architecture…

Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando 1941- Japanese architect    One of the world’s most active Japanese architects, known for his style of exposed concrete and the use of geometric shapes. He traveled around the world…

Triadisches Ballett

Triadisches Ballett

1922 The Triadic Ballet Oscar Schlemmer Bauhaus Avant-garde artistic dance

Oskar Schlemmer

Oskar Schlemmer

1888-1943 German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer  Bauhaus Meister, party of form and colour, Theory of Performance  『Triadisches Ballett』 『Bauhaustreppe』 

Lyonel Feininger

Lyonel Feininger

 1871-1956 German-American painter Expressionism, Cubism, Blaue Reiter, Die Brücke, Berlin Secession, Novembergruppe, Bauhaus 『Cathedral of Socialism』 『Gelmeroda』 『The High Shore』

Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten 1888-1967 Swiss artist, theorist, educator Bauhaus Meister Spiritualism Theory of Color 『Color Sphere in 7 Light Values and 12 Tones』 『The Meeting』 『Horizontal Vertical”

Hannes Meyer

Hannes Meyer

Hannes Meyer 1889-1954 Swiss architect Bauhaus 2nd Principal, CIAM Far East Department Director Soviet Construction Academy 『All-German Trade Union Union School』 

Sone Tatsuzo

Sone Tatsuzo

Sone Tatsuzo 1853-1937 Japanese architect 1st graduate student of Department of Architecture, Office building design in Marunouchi, Tokyo『Mitsubishi Ichigokan』 『Nagasaki Shipyard』 『Keio University Library』 『Former Kagoshima Prefectural Office』

Katayama Tokuma

Katayama Tokuma

Katayama Tokuma 1854-1917 Japanese architect the Imperial College of Engineering, Assistant for Josiah Conder『Akasaka Palace / State Guest House』 『Tokyo National Museum Hyokeikan』 『Nara National Museum Main Building”

Gottfried Semper

Gottfried Semper

Gottfried Semper 1803-1879 German architect Classicism Neoclassical Eclectic Pictureless 『Dresden Opera House』 『Dresden Museum』 『Museum of Art』 

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1781-1841 Prussian architect, city planner, and painterNeoclassicalism 『Berlin Old Museum』 『Babelsberg Palace』 『Neue Wache Memorial』 

Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka

1886-1980 Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher ExpressionismErasmus Prize 『The Bride of the Wind』 『Adolf Loos』 

Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens

1868-1940 German architect and industrial designer  German Werkbund Munich Secession 『Behrens’ house』 『AEG Turbine Factory』 『Hoechst Administration Building』

Hermann Muthesius

Hermann Muthesius

1861-1927 German architect, author and diplomat Arts and Crafts movement Deutscher Werkbund 『Bernhard house』 『Cramer house』

Henry van de Velde

Henry van de Velde

1863-1957 Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist Art Nouveau German Jugendstil Bauhaus 『Van-de-Velde-Building』 『Kröller-Müller Museum』

Bruno Taut

Bruno Taut

1880-1938 German architect, urban planner and author Deutscher Werkbund 『Glass Pavilion』 『Großsiedlung Britz』