The Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart was built for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition, with Mies van der Rohe overseeing the project on behalf of the city. Seventeen European architects designed 21 buildings, and Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret designed Houses 13 to 15. The text says the exhibition opened on July 23, 1927, and calls that a year late. The infobox lists only the 2016 World Heritage inscription.
The article calls the style modernist, with simplified facades, flat roofs, window bands and open-plan interiors. Construction was highly prefabricated, and one cellar was built of gravel rather than concrete. The heritage area is 0.1165 hectares, with a buffer zone of 33.6213 hectares.
World War II bombing destroyed several houses, and two more were demolished in the 1950s. Eleven of the original 21 buildings survived as of 2006. The article gives no current use, hours or ticket details.
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