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unusual facts about New Frankfurt


New Frankfurt

Catherine Bauer Wurster visited the buildings in 1930 and was inspired by the work of May.


Ferdinand Kramer

From 1925 through 1930 Kramer worked for architect and civic planner Ernst May building and furnishing the housing projects of New Frankfurt, and was a contributor to the second CIAM conference.

Mart Stam

Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th-century European architecture, including chair design at the Bauhaus, the Weissenhof Estate, the "Van Nelle Factory", an important modernist landmark building in Rotterdam, buildings for Ernst May's New Frankfurt housing project then to Russia with the idealistic May Brigade, to postwar reconstruction in Germany.

In the late 1920ies Stam was part of the team at the New Frankfurt project.


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