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Ernst May was a German architect and urban planner celebrated as a pioneer of modernist public housing. He is best known for leading the "Neues Frankfurt" (New Frankfurt) initiative in the 1920s, which built thousands of functional, standardized housing units to alleviate severe postwar shortages. H...
Cornelis van Eesteren (1897-1988) was a Dutch architect and urban planner associated with De Stijl and the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), of which he became president in 1930. His most influential work was the 1934 Algemeen Uitbreidingsplan van Amsterdam (General Extension Pla...
Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) was a German architect and urban planner who taught at the Bauhaus school in Dessau from 1929 until its closure in 1933, leading courses in building theory and urban planning. He is best known for his radical modernist city schemes, particularly the 'Hochhausstadt' (H...
Martin Wagner was a German architect and urban planner notable for directing Berlin's modernist housing programs in the 1920s, including the famous Hufeisensiedlung estate.
Werner Hebebrand was a German architect and urban planner notable for designing modernist housing settlements during the 1920s and later leading major planning projects for the UN.
