This particular strain of humane, functionalist urban planning would eventually lead to the extensive German housing projects of Ernst May and Bruno Taut in the 1920s, May's plans for Magnitogorsk and other Russian cities, and then widespread influence through Tessenow's student Otto Koeningsberger, an urban planner who worked in Asia, Latin America, Africa and particularly India, for instance the 1948 plan for the Indian city of Bhubaneswar.

Bruno Taut and Adolf Behne founded the Arbeitsrat für Kunst ( Workers ' Council for Art ) in 1919.

Architect Martin Wagner ( with Bruno Taut ) was responsible for the thousands of dwellings built in and around Berlin, including the Horseshoe Siedlung ( named for its shape ), and Uncle Tom's Cabin Siedlung ( named for a local restaurant ).

In the 1930s, German architect Bruno Julius Florian Taut ( May 4, 1880, Königsberg, Germany-December 24, 1938, Istanbul ) lived and conducted research for a while in Takasaki, Gunma Ken.

* Dynamic Positioning-Controlled by a computer with input from position reference systems ( DGPS, Transponders, Light Taut Wires or RadaScan ), it will maintain the ships position over a dive site by using multi-directional thrusters, other sensors would compensate for swell, tide and prevailing wind.

Taut is known best for his theoretical work, speculative writings and the buildings he designed.

During 1924 Taut was made chief architect of GEHAG, a housing cooperative in Berlin, and was the main designer of several successful large residential developments (" Gross-Siedlungen ") in Berlin, notably the 1925 Horseshoe Development (" Hufeisensiedlung "), named for its configuration around a pond, and the 1926 Uncle Tom's Cabin Development (" Onkel-Toms Hutte ") in Zehlendorf, named oddly for a local restaurant and set in a thick grove of trees.

It was the Bauhaus contemporaries Bruno Taut, Hans Poelzig and particularly Ernst May, as the city architects of Berlin, Dresden and Frankfurt respectively, who are rightfully credited with the thousands of socially progressive housing units built in Weimar Germany.

* Bruno Taut ( 1880 – 1938 ), city architect 1921-1923, completed two housing projects in Magdeburg

* Bruno Taut – architect and city planner

The idea of a monolithic tower as an " urban crown " was developed by Bruno Taut, who was city architect in Magdeburg in the 1920s.

Taut completed two housing projects in Magdeburg from 1912 through 1915, influenced directly by the humane functionalism and urban design solutions of the garden city philosophy.

Taut served as city architect in Magdeburg from 1921 to 1923.

The latter was built in 1931, ( the architect was Max Taut ), and was then the biggest skyscraper in the city.

In 1938 Schütte-Lihotzky, together with her husband, was called to Istanbul, Turkey, to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts, and to reunite with exiled German architect Bruno Taut.

Internationally well-known are: Erwin Bälz ( German internist ), Julius Scriba ( German surgeon ), Bruno Taut ( German architect ), Ernest Satow ( British researcher of Japan and diplomat ), Kakuei Tanaka ( Japanese prime minister 1972-1974 ), Rikidōzan ( famous pro wrestler ).

Bruno Julius Florian Taut ( 4 May 1880, Königsberg, Germany – 24 December 1938, Istanbul ), was a prolific German architect, urban planner and author active during the Weimar period.

With his Weimar architect contemporaries like Bruno Taut and Ernst May, Poelzig's work developed through Expressionism and the New Objectivity in the mid-1920s before arriving at a more conventional, economical style.

Ernst May, Bruno Taut, and Martin Wagner, among others, built large housing blocks in Frankfurt and Berlin.

Still another influential affiliation of architects was the group Der Ring ( The Ring ) established by ten architects in Berlin in 1923-24, including: Otto Bartning, Peter Behrens, Hugo Häring, Erich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Bruno Taut and Max Taut.

After training in Berlin and joining the office of Theodor Fischer in Stuttgart, Taut established his own Berlin office during 1910.

* Deutscher Werkbund, Winfried Brenne ( 2008 ): Bruno Taut: Master of colorful architecture in Berlin, Verlagshaus Braun, ISBN 978-3-935455-82-4

Image: Hufeisensiedlung rotefront. jpg | Bruno Taut, " Red Front " building, Horseshoe Estate, Britz, Berlin

* Britz / Hufeisensiedlung in Berlin by Bruno Taut & Martin Wagner ( with drawings and photos )

The subsidized housing estate was built on the fields of Britz manor between 1925 and 1933 according to plans by Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner.

Taut rebound nets on either side of the posts bounce any missed field goals back into the field of play.

File: 20080715 14995 DSC01768 Siedlung Schillerpark Bristolstraße 5 bis 11. JPG | Schillerpark housing estate ( by Bruno Taut ) on Bristolstraße

Taut had socialist sympathies, and before World War I this hindered his advancement.

An entire group of working architects, including Erich Mendelsohn, Bruno Taut and Hans Poelzig, turned away from fanciful experimentation, and turned toward rational, functional, sometimes standardized building.

The mass housing projects of Ernst May and Bruno Taut are evidence of markedly creative designs being incorporated as a major feature of new planned communities.

Her ideas were taken up in the 1920s by architects in Germany and Austria, most notably Bruno Taut, Erna Meyer, and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky.

Other Tribune tower entries by figures like Walter Gropius, Bertram Goodhue, Bruno Taut, and Adolf Loos remain intriguing suggestions of what might have been, but perhaps not as intriguing as the one surmounted by Rushmore-like head of an American Indian.

Taut, tough, and entirely without macho-glorification, it's a gem, with first-class performances from its three protagonists, deftly characterised without resort to cliché.

His acquaintance with German architects Hermann Muthesius and Bruno Taut resulted in the application of humane design principles in many large housing projects built in the Weimar Republic.

Between 1933 and 1937 Bruno Taut stayed in Japan.

( Unfortunately Taut died soon after their arrival.

In discussing architecture, Janco described himself and the other Artistes Radicaux as the mentors of Europe's modernist urban planners, including Bruno Taut and the Bauhaus group.

Taut, imaginative and complex, this is one of the best American films of the year and a wonderful antidote to the numbing sameness of movies.

In 2008 the company purchased the Taut sports drink range.

The buildings, and to a lesser extent the gardens, of Katsura became influential to a number of well known modernist architects in the 20th century via a book produced by Bruno Taut.

Taut foliations were brought to prominence by the work of William Thurston and David Gabai.

Taut wire systems can operate with a variety of switches or detectors that sense movement at each end of the tensioned wires.