Eugen Carl Kaufmann or Eugene Charles Kent (8 January 1892 in

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

– 21 June 1984 in

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) was German-born English Jewish architect. From 1925, he was engaged at the

New Frankfurt New Frankfurt (German: ''Neues Frankfurt'') was an affordable public housing program in Frankfurt started in 1925 and completed in 1930. It was also the name of the accompanying magazine that was published from 1926 to 1931 dedicated to interna ...

project under the leadership of

Ernst May Ernst May (27 July 1886 – 11 September 1970) was a German architect and city planner. May successfully applied urban design techniques to the city of Frankfurt am Main during the Weimar Republic period, and in 1930 less successfully expor ...

. Later, he joined in a city planning with E. May, at the invitation of the

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s. From there he went to London where he opened his own architectural office.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20070628021930/http://www.ikg.uni-karlsruhe.de/projekte/exilarchitekten/architekten/kent.htm Architects from London British urban planners Jewish architects 1892 births 1984 deaths Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom Architects from Frankfurt {{UK-architect-stub