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32 TENNISCLUBHAUS HELLER BY ATELIER SINGER DICKER Year 1928 Status Demolished Material Paper Tape Scale 1:100 Model maker Barbara Gruber Franz Singer and Friedl Dicker both studied under Johannes Itten at the Viennese Art School from 1917. When Itten was appointed as professor at the newly founded Bauhaus University in Weimar in 1919, Franz Singer and Friedl Dicker followed him there. In 1925, Franz Singer and Friedl Dicker returned to Vienna where they started the architecture studio Singer-Dicker, which quickly became well known within the architecture scene in Vienna.1 One of their first building projects was a tennis court and a clubhouse for Dr. Hans Heller at the crossing of Reichgasse and Leopold-Müller- Gasse in the 13th district of Vienna. The clubhouse was a one storey building with a flat roof. On top of the roof there was a round platform, which was used as a terrace and was connected to the ground floor by a spiral staircase. The cloakrooms and showers were located around the staircase. The office and the ground keeper’s common room was placed in the centre of the building. The tennis player’s common room was at the front facing end of the building. This room, with its large glazed doors, overlooked and opened out onto the tennis court. During the Second World War, the clubhouse was used as a storage facility.The building was demolished after the war and had been one of the few typical Bauhaus style architecture projects still existing in Vienna.2 The model of the building was reconstructed with the help of some photos and fragments of planning material. 1 Thun-Hohenstein, Christoph (Ed.) (2013): Wien 1900. Design / Kunstgewerbe 1890-1938. München: Prestel-Verlag. 198. 2 Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien (Ed.) (1988): Franz Singer, Friedl Dicker: 2x Bauhaus in Wien. Wien: Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien. 74.