multi-family settlement ( built somewhen between 1927 & 1928 ) along ludwig-landmann-straße. when you think of frankfurt, what comes to mind immediately, is always the skyline with its tall skyscrapers, a city made out of glass and shiny facades. but did you know that frankfurt is not only known for these pure embodiments of capitalism, but also as a place in which modern architecture as we know it today was established? y'all heard of bauhaus already ( one of my alltime favourite architectural styles ), which is germany's answer to the new objectivity movement that started to bloom between 1920 and 1930 - a building style that shifted away from maximalism, historism and monumentalism to the complete opposite - minimalist design, functional architecture, built under socialist aspects, considering the bad economy of that era, trying to fulfill the huge demand of housing space after world war 1. what walter gropius did with his bauhaus-concept was simply just that, creating ...
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