About
Co-founder of the architecture school at the Berlin University of the Arts; co-founded Berlin firm Taut & Hoffman.
Before Fame
He became known in the 1920s for his trade-union buildings and for constructing one house per year, all vastly different from each other, on Hiddensee island from 1922 until 1925.
Trivia
He was responsible for the Berlin heritage sites, Deutscher Buchdrucker building and the Oranienplatz consumer cooperatives' department store.
Family Life
He was the younger brother of architect Bruno Taut.
Associated With
He and Walter Gropius were members of the avant-garde architectural society, Zehnerring.
