The Many Faces of Modern Architecture: Building in Germany between the World Wars

The Germany of the Weimar Republic (1918-33) has long been recognized as one of the birthplaces, if not the home, of the Modern Movement in architecture. Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Bruno Taut are among the avant-garde architects whose buildings are familiar to historians and enthusiasts alike. Yet an extensive body of work was created by less well known architects throughout the 1920s and 1930s which, although less radical than that of their famous confreres, constitutes the mainstream of modern architecture in Germany. This book focuses on these more or less forgotten buildings.