* 1884 in Königsberg
† 1967 in Berlin
- trained at the Baugewerbeschule Königsberg
- 1905–1906 architect at the municipal building administration of Rixdorf; collaboration with Mies van der Rohe
- 1906–1911 worked at Hermann Billing in Karlsruhe
- from 1911 self-employed architect in Berlin
- 1912 joined the office of his brother Bruno Taut and Franz Hoffmann, Berlin
- 1918 founder member of the November Group and the Work Council for Art
- 1919 co-founder of the artistic movement “Gläserne Kette” (Glass Chain)
- 1922 participaed in the Chicago Tribune Building competition
- 1922–1925 office building of the General Confederation of German Trade Unions; residential and commercial building of the Deutsche Buchdrucker, both in Berlin
- 1927 house for the Weißenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart
- 1945–1954 professorship at the Hochschule der Künste (now UdK), Berlin
