The relatively short period of industrial bloom during the 1920s and 1930s left behind numerous remarkable buildings of early Modernism. These buildings deserve far more attention than has been granted until now. The cities of Berlin and Breslau, which became significant European cultural centers during the 1920s, provided the essential impulses for building and social-reformist utopias in architecture and urban planning.

This project looks at buildings and housing projects in East Germany and Poland. These buildings comprise a largely unknown testimony to the 1920s. They document in an impressive way the changes and the progressive thinking of the Weimar republic to this day. Besides individual outstanding buildings, experimental models of housing projects will be documented.

 
Management: Dr. Lars Scharnholz
Period: 2002-2007
Organization: INIK e. V.
Topics: Models for housing projects, modern housing projects