Neufert's “Bauentwurfslehre” (Architects' Data)
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Ernst Neufert's 1936 reference book on standardized human-scale design became a foundational design tool, but its later development was compromised by his role serving Nazi wartime standardization.
Ernst Neufert's "Bauentwurfslehre" also simply known as the "Neufert" from 1936, aimed to rationalize design with standardized anthropometric data, seeking efficiency in human-scale spaces. … This became starker as Neufert later worked closely with Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect, spearheading standardization for the Nazi regime. His "Octametric system" and the subsequent "Bauordnungslehre" (1943), were explicitly formulated to serve the objectives of order and wartime efficiency pursued by the Third Reich, and these standards were implemented throughout Germany and occupied territories.
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