Sommerfeld House

The house was built in Berlin as a villa for Adolf Sommerfeld who was a building contractor, lumbermill owner, and real-estate developer.

[2] This changed in 1920 when Adolf Sommerfeld gave a private commission to Walter Gropius to build a personal villa for him in Berlin.

Johannes Itten disagreed with taking private commissions altogether while Gropius believed that they were necessary to keep the Bauhaus afloat financially and to avoid the school becoming "an island of recluses.

[1] The house was also full of wooden carvings created by Joost Schmidt who included various geometric shapes such as triangles, circles, zigzags, and squares, in addition to human shapes, industrial scenes, Stars of David, and the names of cities and towns which Sommerfeld was associated with.

[1] There was a large ceremony to celebrate the completion of the house in which the men of the school wore clothing with a neckerchiefs and the women had headscarves which were specially designed in order to a uniform and homogenous image.