... able to accomplish all that except for houses, an edifice that an architect could be able to produce with the use of those new tools of the time. It will also serve the new needs of mankind. Hannes Meyer's view on architects is slightly different from Le Corbusier's. Even though both architects were interested in the mass production housing system, their views on the architect are different. Meyer's views correspond more to the ideals of the Bauhaus, partly because he was head of the Bauhaus in Dessau right after Gropius' retirement. Meyer sees the architect as more of a specialist like an economist, a statistician, a climatologist... "he was an artist and now becomes a specialist in organization!". Meyer also believed that "architecture as 'an emotional act of the artist' has no justification". It seems that Meyer's idea of an architect corresponds more to Le Corbusier's idea of an engineer. ...

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