Guiding Architects, tour: 'Campus Westen' and 'Römerstadt' (Fig. 1)

Guiding Architects, tour: 'Campus Westen' and 'Römerstadt' (Fig. 2)

Guiding Architects, tour: 'Campus Westen' and 'Römerstadt' (Fig. 3)

Guiding Architects, tour: 'Campus Westen' and 'Römerstadt' (Fig. 4)

Guiding Architects, tour: 'Campus Westen' and 'Römerstadt' (Fig. 5)

Guiding Architects, tour: 'Campus Westen' and 'Römerstadt' (Fig. 6)

Tour in Frankfurt am Main:
'Campus Westen' and 'Römerstadt'

With this tour, we offer a journey into the 1920s, the era of the Bauhaus and the ‘Neues Frankfurt’. From 1926 to 1928, Hans Poelzig designed the largest office building in Europe, the headquarters of the IG Farben corporation. During the tour of the building, we of course explain the architecture, which here almost takes a back seat to its historical significance: crimes against humanity committed by IG Farben, its role as the American Army headquarters from 1945 until reunification, and later its conversion into a university building with the establishment of the university campus, which is followed by an architectural walk. The goal was to create affordable, comfortable apartments in green surroundings and close to the city. In Römerstadt, planned in the 1920s by Ernst May, we explain this still exemplary housing program with its green spaces and recall the Frankfurt Kitchen and its inventor, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky.