Breuer's student in the furniture workshop at the Bauhaus. He also took architecture courses in the newly established Department of Architecture. From 1928 to 1931, he served as Breuer's draftsman and collaborator on a number of projects such as a competitions for housing in Spandau-Haselhorst, a hospital in Elberfeld, and a theater in Kharkov along with exhibitions for the 1930 Paris Werkbund exhibition and the 1931 Deutsche Bauaustellung. He left Berlin in 1931 for Moscow where he worked with Ernst May to plan new cities in Siberia. He later became a Professor, teaching at the Munich Technische Hochschule.