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Article: The Many Faces of Modern Architecture: Building in Germany Between the World Wars.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Time was, not so very long ago, when modern German architectural history began with Behrens' AEG Turbine Hall and then moved via Gropius' Werkbund Exhibition Factory and the aberration of the Einstein Tower to the triumph of the Neue Sachlichkeit in the 1920s with the Bauhaus and the Weissenhof Siedlung. Then came a black hole lasting from 1933 to 1945, and the Modern Movement popped up again in the 1950s. This is of course, a simplification to the point of caricature, but the fact remains that in recent years the reputations of the big Pioneer heroes have overshadowed the many other good architects practising in Germany.
The true picture - as in Britain - is much ...