Talk:Ernst May

Nazi architecture

For example Ernst May was commissioned by the city council of Frankfurt to design several large housing developments (Siedlungen).

See Page 6-7 of:

Taylor, Robert. Word in Stone: The Role of Architecture in the National Socialist Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. ISBN 0520021932. Endurance 20:29, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Endurance, just because Ernst May was German and practiced architecture in Germany during the Weimar years does not make him a Nazi architect. In May's case, on the contrary. May's public housing projects were not sponsored or admired by the National Socialists. After May went to Russia, the Nazis considered him a Bolshevik traitor. Unable to return to the country, he was an exile for the rest of his life. Upshot: clearly not a Nazi. --Lockley 20:54, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Lockley one does not have to be a Nazi Party member to be an architect of the Third Reich including architects on Albert Speer's own staff. Why don't you write up a fitting entry for Ernst May and we can go from there. Endurance 21:05, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Bauhaus

I removed the "Bauhaus" category because May was not associated with the Bauhaus nor with Walter Gropius. The work of May, Bruno Taut, the Deutsches Werkbund, Mendelsohn, Scharoun and maybe a dozen other significant German architects working in the 1920s responded to the same issues and possibilities as the Bauhaus. There's a tendency to lump all of this effort under the Bauhaus brand, which is inaccurate, gives Gropius more credit than he is due, and obscures some important stuff going on. If there's an all-encompassing term for this period it would be Neues Bauen. --Lockley 17:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

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