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9. Detached house No. 20, designed by Adolf Rading, Weissenhof housing estate, Stuttgart 1927. Die Form 1927, p. 287
of study: certain areas were designated for specific functions leaving the remaining space flexible
and adjustable to the residents' current needs. The second building's layout was even more open:
in both houses, one half of the ground floor formed a kind of gallery opening into the outside and
gardens, additionally extending living spaces were arranged on roof terraces.
The houses by Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe attracted enormous interest but it was the
complex of row-houses by Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud and Mart Stam that emerged as the most
fitting answer to the exhibition's professed objective. The dwellings for working class families were
based on a very simple and economical layout, reflecting the Dutch home's tradition and the prin-
ciple of functionalism: the ground floor was occupied by a unified living space and a kitchen while
the first floor accommodated three sleeping rooms.
The significance of the Weissenhof housing estate consisted not only in its pioneering role as
the first project of this type but also in the diversity of architectural conceptions presented, from the
9. Detached house No. 20, designed by Adolf Rading, Weissenhof housing estate, Stuttgart 1927. Die Form 1927, p. 287
of study: certain areas were designated for specific functions leaving the remaining space flexible
and adjustable to the residents' current needs. The second building's layout was even more open:
in both houses, one half of the ground floor formed a kind of gallery opening into the outside and
gardens, additionally extending living spaces were arranged on roof terraces.
The houses by Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe attracted enormous interest but it was the
complex of row-houses by Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud and Mart Stam that emerged as the most
fitting answer to the exhibition's professed objective. The dwellings for working class families were
based on a very simple and economical layout, reflecting the Dutch home's tradition and the prin-
ciple of functionalism: the ground floor was occupied by a unified living space and a kitchen while
the first floor accommodated three sleeping rooms.
The significance of the Weissenhof housing estate consisted not only in its pioneering role as
the first project of this type but also in the diversity of architectural conceptions presented, from the