B

etween 1922 and 1936, peter behrens taught at the vienna academy of arts while maintaining his architectural office in Berlin. During the

1920s and 1930s, he did practically no work as a designer but was very active as an architect, producing plans very much in the spirit of the architectural avant-garde. His high-rise hoechst company office building (1920–1924) in Frankfurt is one of the most effective

examples of expressionism in architecture, while his buildings from the second half of the 1920s are modernist.

Headquarters of the Hoechst AG. Architect peter

behrens, built in 1920–1924. © AKG/East

Interior of Hoechst AG headquarters,

ceiling view. Photo courtesy of Stern