(b Mechernich, nr Euskirchen, 17 June 1881; d Baltrum, East Friesian islands, 24 July 1929). German architect and teacher. He trained as a cabinetmaker and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Düsseldorf, where he was particularly influenced by J. L. M. Lauwerik’s theory of proportion. From 1907 to 1908 he worked in Peter Behrens’s office, and from 1909 to 1910 he worked in Bruno Paul’s office in Berlin. From 1910 until 1925 he worked in close collaboration with Walter Gropius and directed his offices in Berlin and Weimar. In addition he was an outstanding teacher of architecture at the Bauhaus in Weimar (1919–25). When the school moved to Dessau, Ernst May appointed him director of the planning consultancy at the structural engineering office in Frankfurt am Main. He also taught structural engineering at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Frankfurt. In 1919 he signed the manifesto of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst and was a member of the architects’ group Der Ring. In 1928 he founded the Frankfurt Oktobergruppe with, among others, Willi Baumeister, Mart Stam and Josef Gantner.

• Meyer, Adolf (1881-1929)
  • Behrens, Peter, §1: Studies and early designs to c 1907
  • Gropius, Walter, §2: From Bauhaus to Berlin, 1918–34
  • collaboration
    • Brick, §II, 3(ii)(d): Western world: 20th century
    • Factory
    • Germany, §II, 7(i): Architecture, 1900–39
    • Glass, §IV, 2(ii): Uses: Architecture, 1800–1913
    • Glass, §IV, 2(iii): Uses: Architecture, 1914 and after
    • Gropius, Walter, §1: The early years, 1903–18
    • Gropius, Walter, §3: England and the USA, 1934–69
  • competitions
    • Competition, §I, 4: Architecture, after 1900
  • groups and movements
    • Expressionism, §2: Architecture
    • Modern Movement, §2: Deutscher Werkbund and the aesthetics of Functionalism, c 1907–16
    • Modern Movement, §4: Towards an international style, 1926–32
    • Rationalism (ii)
    • Ring, Der
  • staff
    • Heep, Franz