In his discourses, Taut developed as solutions for existing problems he discussed architecture based on the “spirit of the place” and universal solution proposals for the “replacing architects and architecture”, which arose out of the problems of the day.

He was an architect “who did not belong to a single place”, and who had addressed even today as he approached the architectural problems of his era with specific references to his day. Taut left his mark in every place he lived in, even Turkey, which he often called “the land of Sinan”. In this aim, the proposed paper intends to lead to a discussion within the framework of the congress, on the architecture of Bruno Taut, who was considered as a “stateless architect”, and who stayed in numerous locations including Koenigsberg (East Prussia), Hamburg, Wiesbaden, Magdeburg, Berlin, (Germany), Osaka, Tokyo (Japan), Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Trabzon (Turkey) through years, due to various political, social and economic reasons. Within this fact and in reference to the Livenarch-VI’s theme of “Replacing Architecture”, “the uprooted architects” who are expatriated and lived abroad, and the buildings they produced are certainly worthy of debate. Many concepts such as population growth, economic crises, revolutions, wars, unemployment, immigration and refugee movements forced the act of producing architecture, away from its original purpose, into an endeavor to build characterless and spiritless buildings which are actually incompatible with the context, isolated from their places, not alive but nonetheless serve as forced habitats.

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