#officetour Milestones – The Mannesmann-Haus by Peter Behrens
..."8 A comparison of the office as a living organism which reminds of, and amongst numerous other possible examples, Frank Lloyd Wright's 1902-06 Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo with its internal organisation defined by the flow of work through the space, or Le Corbusier and his Organisation rationelle, which as depicted, for example, in context of his 1933 competition entry for the new Rentenanstalt in Zürich is very much an office building as a organic entity... 20 Material such as the marble used for the vestibule staircase; a marble staircase which, according to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, had been his contribution to the Mannesmann-Haus21, for lest we forget, not only was Le Corbusier in Behrens' employ in the early years of the 20th century, but also Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies...