#adolf meyer

Design entry for the competition for an office building for the Chicago Tribune, by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer, 1922.

Another book ticked off my list after a long time: Annemarie Jaeggi’s monograph „Adolf Meyer - Der zweite Mann: Ein Architekt im Schatten von Walter Gropius“, published on the occasion of the Bauhaus’s 75th anniversary in 1994 by Argon. Since 1910 Adolf Meyer (1881-1929) was a key associate of Walter Gropius involved in the latter’s most significant projects and between 1919 and 1925 Bauhaus master. When the Bauhaus relocated to Dessau Meyer remained in Weimar as independent architect. In 1926 he moved to Frankfurt/Main and became Baurat in the „Neues Frankfurt“ project. Meyer’s life abruptly ended when he drowned offshore the island of Baltrum.

The major achievement of Annemarie Jaeggi’s research into the life and work of Adolf Meyer is the assignment of authorship to the projects Adolf Meyer designed in the office of Walter Gropius and which projects they designed in collaboration. As a result the contribution and pivotal role of Adolf Meyer finally became visible and allowed for a differentiated view on the inner workings of the Gropius office.

Adolf Meyer