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Chapter 15
Architecture and Urban Life
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Weimar Germany (1918/19–1933)
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Bruno Taut, “An Architectural Program” (1919)
Walter Gropius, Program of the State Bauhaus in Weimar (1919)
Poster for Bauhaus Exhibition in Weimar (1923)
Bruno Taut, The Dissolution of Cities (1920)
Bruno Taut, Horseshoe Housing Estate in Berlin-Britz (built 1925-30)
Bruno Taut, Carl Legien Housing Settlement in Berlin (built 1928-30)
Educational Film about Road Safety (1920)
Nikolaus Braun, Berlin Street Scene (1921)
Berlin’s Siemensstadt district (1921)
Erich Mendelsohn, Einstein Tower in Potsdam (built 1920-21)
Erich Mendelsohn, Mosse House in Berlin (built 1921-23)
Erich Mendelsohn, “The International Consensus in New Architectural Thought, or Dynamics and Function” (excerpts, 1923)
Walter Gropius and Paul Schultze-Naumburg, “Who Is Right? Traditional Architecture or Building in New Forms” (1926)
Walter Gropius, Dessau Bauhaus, View from the Southwest (built 1926)
Newspaper Report on the Bauhaus School Opening in Dessau (December 7, 1926)
Hannes Meyer, “The New World” (1926)
Grete Lihotzky, “Rationalization in the Household” (1926-27)
Frankfurt Kitchen (left) Grete Schütte-Lihotzky (seated) with colleagues from the Frankfurt Municipal Building Department (c. 1928)
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky on Modern Kitchen Design in the 1920s (retrospective account, 1992)
Ufa’s Universum Movie Palace on Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm (built 1926-28)
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders, “A Construction, not a Dwelling” (1927)
Weissenhof Housing Settlement in Stuttgart (built 1927)
Hans Ostwald, “All Tables Occupied” (1920s)
Werner Richter, „Russians in Berlin“ (February 1927)
Housing Standards as They Were, Are, and Should Be! (1928)
“One Hundred and Fifty per Minute,” Berliner Tageblatt (September 4, 1928)
Erich Mendelsohn, “Architecture and Politics” (December 28, 1928)
Erich Mendelsohn, Schocken Department Store in Chemnitz (built 1926-28)
Erich Mendelsohn, “The Modern Commercial Building” (1929)
Otto Steinicke, “A Visit to a New Apartment” (1929)
Effects of the Housing Shortage in Hamburg (1929)
Effects of the Housing Shortage in Munich (1929)
Franz Hessel, “Sightseeing Tour” (1929)
Harold Nicolson, “The Charm of Berlin” (1929)
Berlin Street Scenes (1929)
Brisk Traffic on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz (1930)
Friedrich Seidenstücker, A Young Woman Jumps Over a Puddle (1930)
Walter Ruttmann, Weekend (1930)
Erich Kästner, “Visitors from the Country” (1930)
Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz as Seen from Café Josty (c. 1930)
Potsdamer Platz with the Columbus House in the Background (1932)
Richard Forst and His Orchestra, “Hast Du schon Berlin bei Nacht gesehen” (1932)
Walter Gropius on the Creative Responsibility of the Architect (1955)
Franz Meyers, Daily Town Life in 1918 (Retrospective Account, 1990)
Rural Life