The Werk­bund Estate at Weißen­hof – Pio­neers, Plans, Poten­tial

The Werk­bund Estate at Weißen­hof – Pio­neers, Plans, Poten­tial

Pre­sen­ta­tion of the 6th Pub­li­ca­tion on Tues­day, Novem­ber 10, 2026, at 6:30 p.m., State Acad­e­my of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
Am Weißen­hof 1 / New Build­ing 2 / Lec­ture Hall, Ground Floor
70191 Stuttgart

With the sixth vol­ume of the Weißen­hof series, Eva-Maria Seng and Michael Kim­mer­le con­clude the series they con­ceived on the Weißen­hof Estate in Stuttgart.

The Stuttgart Werk­bund hous­ing estate at Weißen­hof, which was devel­oped and built as part of the 1927 exhi­bi­tion Die Woh­nung, is a world-renowned mod­el hous­ing estate and a par­a­dig­mat­ic exam­ple of the Neues Bauen move­ment.

This sixth vol­ume, pub­lished to mark the 100th anniver­sary of the hous­ing estate, once again sheds light on the var­i­ous approach­es to the his­to­ry of the Weißen­hof Estate. The vol­ume intro­duces key fig­ures from this inno­v­a­tive era who have recent­ly been redis­cov­ered by researchers, such as the tim­ber con­struc­tion pio­neer Kon­rad Wachs­mann, Erna Meyer—the trail­blaz­er in mod­ern kitchen design—and the many tex­tile design­ers who worked for Pausa in Mössin­gen. In addi­tion, the media por­tray­al of the Weis­senhof Estate—and thus its endur­ing influ­ence right up to the present day—is sub­ject­ed to crit­i­cal scruti­ny.

Edi­tors: Eva-Maria Seng and Michael Kim­mer­le

The sixth vol­ume in the pub­li­ca­tion series is pub­lished by arnold­sche Art Pub­lish­ers and is avail­able in book­stores and on-site for 28 euros!

Die Werk­bund­sied­lung am Weißen­hof