Bruno Taut ( b. Konigsberg, Germany 1880; d. Istanbul, Turkey 1938)
Taut, B. completed his high school education at 1987 and Königsberg civil vocational school of higher education at 1990. He worked with various architects in Hamburg and Wiesbaden cities at 1902.Moreover, he joined Theodor Fischer’s Office in Berlin in 1910.After joining the Office, Taut opened his own Office in Berlin at the same year.
He interested in garden city movement after the suggestion of Hermann Muthesius and Muthesius introduced Taut about some of the figures of the Deutscher Werkbund, including Walter Gropius. Taut was directly influenced by the humane functionalism and urban design solutions of the garden city movement. Another significant characteristic of Taut is that he is a painter and the feature renders Taut unique in terms of his devotion to color among his European modernist contemporaries. Taut used colors as a design principle. Moreover, the essay in the new possibilities of glass, the 1914 glass pavilion, is the marked of the distinction between Taut and his modernist contemporaries however , it was not clearer than at the 1927 Weissenhofsiedlung housing exhibition. Taut ‘s nineteenth house was painted in primary colors which opposed to Mies van der Rohe’s, Le Corbusier’s and Walter Gropius’s pure white entries. Taut’s salient design features are controversially modern flat roofs, generous amenities like gas, electric light, and bathrooms and humane access to air, sun and gardens. The additive of the critics on the political right render these developments were too opulent for people.
After the rise of the Nazis, Taut was forced out of Germany and he had been various country. The Taut’s story in Turkey was started with the offer of the ‘’State Academy of Fine Arts’’ in Istanbul. He designed educational buildings in Ankara and Trabzon. The most significant of these buildings were the "Faculty of Languages, History and Geography" at Ankara University, "Ankara Atatürk High School" and "Trabzon High School" and catafalque used for the funeral of The Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
