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Startseite • Exhibitions • Exhibitions Abroad • Architecture • Two German Architectures • Living and Leisure
  In the decades following World War II, both in the Fedral Republic and in the GDR, the main task of architecture was to relieve the shortage of housing – with speed – to provide new homes for the millions of displaced persons and those who had lost their houses and flats in the bombing raids. Initially both states continued in the vein of the experiences gained from social housing in the 1920s and 1930s, only soon to go their distinctly different architectural ways, as a result of different modes of production, but also diverging architectural paradigms. In the beginning, the dominant model in the East was the compact urpan complex, while the West preferred ensembles of free-standing linear blocks, and high-rises as urban landmarks. Both countries favoured mass housing in multi-storey buildings. In the Federal Republic, a great number of single-family and modest terraced houses were built outside the cities. Artists' Database (in German) Mass Hosing  Weberwiese residential tower | Berlin-Friedrichshain Architects: Hermann Henselmann / Rolf Göpfert  Residential towers 'Romeo and Juliet' | Stuttgart Architect: Hans Scharoun  Blocks of flats on Luisenplatz | Berlin-Charlottenburg Architekt: Hans Kollhoff Single-Family Houses  Ungers House, Home and Library | Cologne Architect: Oswald Mathias Ungers Leisure  Cinema 'Kosmos' | Berlin-Friedrichshain Architects: Josef Kaiser / Günter Kunert Also in the exhibition |
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