German architect and designer, 1868 to 1940, appointed artistic consultant to the electrical firm AEG in 1907, for which he designed the AEG Turbine Factory (1909) and the company's full visual identity, one of the first corporate design programmes of its kind. Born in Hamburg and trained as a painter before turning to architecture, his Berlin office between about 1907 and 1912 trained three architects who reshaped twentieth century building in turn: Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who later said he first heard the phrase "less is more" there.
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Defining ContributionAEG Turbine Factory and the first corporate design programme; trained Gropius, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe 1 Connections
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AEG chief designer and mentor to Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, credited as a pioneer of architectural Modernism.
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Le Corbusier worked four months in Behrens' office in 1910 and 1911, alongside Mies van der Rohe and Gropius.
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Gropius joined Behrens' office in 1908 and left to found his own practice in 1910.
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Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 - 27 February 1940) was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909.
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