Last Chance Bauten. Mit Einer Einleitung Von H. De Fries Accessory [HjeWZzVy]

First edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver and blue, lettering at spine partially rubbed off. Square format. pp. xvi + 96. Many photographs of buildings and related floor and structural plans. Covers slightly rubbed. Schneider was a German architect born in Mainz, Germany, who received his architectural training under Lussow and Kuehne (Dresden, 1911-1912), Walter Gropius (Berlin, 1912-1914), and Peter Behrens (Berlin, 1915-1916). After immigrating to the United States in 1938, he worked in Chicago for Sears, Roebuck and Company. After serving in the military from 1917 to 1919, Schneider established an architectural firm in Hamburg, which he directed until 1933. His Villa Michaelsen, well-received by critics when completed in 1923, brought him numerous private commissions for domestic architecture. In the later 1920s Schneider joined a group of architects known as Der Ring, whose goal was to reject past-enshrined forms and employ the latest technology to solve contemporary building problems. This group included among its members Otto Bartning, Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, among others. In 1926, Schneider's designs for the Großseidlung Jarrestadt-Barmbek, a city-sponsored competition, won first prize and brought further financial and artistic rewards.