History of Architecture and Design - Season 1 Episode 9 Berlin Siedlungen
The most notable success of the New Objectivity in architecture was the solution of most of the problems posed by mass housing in Germany. In Television broadcast 9, Tim Benton traces the development of the Siedlungen (housing estates) built in Berlin during the 1920s through the work of Bruno Taut, Hans Scharoun, Walter Gropius, Hugo Häring, and Otto Bartning. He shows that, despite the large scale of these projects, the garden city ideal was never far away.
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Season
Season 1
Episode
An architect at work : Fletcher's Well Ponteland
Universal International Exhibition : Paris 1900
Charles Rennie Mackintosh : Hill House
Industrial architecture : AEG and FAGUS factories
Frank Lloyd Wright : the Robie House
R. M. Schindler : The Lovell Beach House
Erich Mendelsohn : the Einstein Tower
Bauhaus at Weimar 1919-1925
Berlin Siedlungen
The Weissenhof Siedlung 1927
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, Paris 1925
Adolf Loos
Le Corbusier : the Villa Savoye
English flats of the thirties
English houses of the Thirties
Hans Scharoun
English furniture : technique and design
Wood or metal : English furniture of the thirties
The London Underground
Moderne and modernistic
The other tradition
Mechanical services in the cinema
The semi-detached house : the suburban style
The housing question
Episode 25