In the 1920s, population growth and extremely poor housing conditions in Berlin prompted the idea of building new, modern neighborhoods that met the standards of modern construction. 140,000 apartments were built between 1925 and 1930. The most prominent figure of this architectural era was Bruno Taut, who designed and built four of the six neighborhoods inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2008. During the tour, we will see the most striking of these: the Horseshoe Settlement, the Falkenberg Garden City, and the Schillerpark neighborhood. The unusual color, architectural, stylistic, and aesthetic solutions, as well as the new social standards of Bruno Taut’s buildings, influenced the development of architecture in many countries around the world.
5 hours by car and on foot
