Hannes Meyer

Hannes Meyer was a swiss architect, he was the second director of the Bauhaus, the most important architecture school in twenty century after Walter Gropius. Before the Bauhaus, he work in Switzerland in trade union projects, as the Friedorf Siedlung. When he was director of the Bauhaus, Meyer gave the Bauhaus a comunist and scientific perspective, from a colective work focused in the development of the tecnic for build quality houses for the workers. Meyer was expelled in 1930 by the Major of the city of Dessau for organize a communist cell in the school.

After his expulsion he went to live and work in the USSR, where he had most of his professional activity as a loudspeaker to the world, of the achievements of socialism, and explaining what it means to be a leninist architect.

Later, at 1936, he returned to Switzerland to import the socialist experience inthe USSR, and later he traveled to Mexico turning into a mentor of latinamerican socialist architecture. He was expelled from Mexico by trotskyism, firstly by Diego Rivera and Juan O'Gorman, who charged him of participating in the execution of Trotsky.

During the second world war, Meyer dedicated a text into the defense of socialism, the quinquennial plans, the soviet culture and the fight against fascism. In spite of being one of the most important architects of the century (in my opinion the best architect of the twenty century), his name was censored in history for being communist and openly defending the soviet government. 
There is a book of the Gilberto Gili called "The architect and the class struggle and other works", that is a recopilation of the most importants works (architecture and texts) made by Meyer.