The ensemble with its prominent twin towers that Egon Eiermann
(1904-1970) built in Frankfurt am Main for the Italian office
machinery company Olivetti, was the Karlsruhe architect's last
major project. His priorities lay in the slender form, derived from
the task, the construction and the material to create a
characteristic silhouette. Adriano Olivetti, the son of the
company's founder, valued not only the firm's products, which
became cult objects of Italianita in the field of design and which
established the 'Stile Olivetti'. He also made the same demands
regarding quality in architecture. The grandson, Roberto Olivetti,
commissioned Eiermann, a famous representative of German postwar
Modernism, to design the German branch offices. For the architect
the project formed the culmination of his career, while for the
Karlsruhe student Klaus Kinold it marked the beginning of a career
as a photo g-rapher of architecture. He maintained that he had
learned more for his future profession from his teacher Egon
Eiermann than from anyone else.
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