Bruno Taut

Who was Bruno Taut?

Bruno Julius Florian Taut was a prolific German architect, urban planner and author active during the Weimar period.

Taut is known for his theoretical work, speculative writings and the buildings he designed. Taut's best-known single building is probably the prismatic dome of the Glass Pavilion for the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition. His sketches for the publication "Alpine Architecture" are the work of an unabashed Utopian visionary, and he is classified as a Modernist and in particular as an Expressionist. Much of Taut's literary work in German remains untranslated into English.