Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates is a collective term for six in July 2008 recorded by the UNESCO list of world heritage housing estates in various parts of the city and former suburbs of Berlin. These were designed and built 1913-1934 by architects of the classical modern style of the new style. The settlements in the present-day districts Bohnsdorf, Britz, North Charlottenburg, Prenzlauer Berg, Reinickendorf and Wedding later developed for social housing in housing influenced by time after the First World War. With its clear and new forms as well as the social claim settlements have come to define the architecture and urbanism of the 20th century.
Responsible for the planning of the settlements were mainly Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner, but it also participated in other architects such as Hans Scharoun or Walter Gropius in the projects. The oldest of the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates is designed by Taut Falkenberg Garden City, until the early 1930s, built in the style of New Objectivity White City and the large settlement of Siemens City were completed.