Date
1928
Project Types
Competition
Residential
Location
Berlin Germany
Languages
Dutch
English
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Spanish
People/Firms
A. L. Colombo
A. N. Marquis Co.
Abraham and Straus, Inc.
Agostini, Alfredo
Albers, Josef
Albert, Edouard
Aldrich, Nelson
Allen, Deborah
American Architect and Architecture
American Designers Committee for French Civilian Relief
American Embassy (Bogotá, Colombia)
Amsterdamsche Bank
Andrews, Wayne
Andruss, D.
Aoyagi, Tetsu
The Reichsforschungsgesellschaft für Wirtschaftlichkeit im Bau- und Wohnungswesen (National Research Institute for Efficiency in Housing Construction) sponsored a competition for a workers housing settlement in the Spandau-Haselhorst section of Berlin. Breuer and his colleague and former student, Gustav Hassenpflug, set three parallel, eighteen-story, slab apartment buildings in a park containing playgrounds and promenades. Rows of single-family, two-story houses with gardens inhabited the space between the high-rise apartment buildings. Communal facilities such as nurseries and laundries were to be found in the lower stories of the tall buildings, whose height was determined by the limitations of elevator technology at the time. Like many other modernist housing projects, the facades were oriented so that the apartments received north-south light and the narrow ends of the building faced the street.
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