biography
pronunciation:
[bayrens]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1868–1940)
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| biography:
| Architect and designer, born in Hamburg, N Germany. Trained as a painter, he was appointed director of the Dusseldorf Art and Craft School (1903–7). In 1907 he became artistic adviser to Walther Rathenau at the AEG electrical company in Berlin, for whom he designed a turbine assembly works (1909) of glass and steel, a landmark in industrial architectural style. He was professor at Dusseldorf and Vienna, and trained several notable modern architects, including Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius. |
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