A Birthplace of Modernity
Walter
Gropius. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Hugo Häring. Bruno Taut. Otto Rudolf
Salvisberg. Erich Mendelsohn. Richard Neutra. Hans Poelzig. What a name
dropping! They all built here in the 1920s, when Berlin was the centre
of modernism. Come with us on a tour that will show you why modern
architecture was developed here of all places. The magnificent
Onkel-Toms-Hütte forest estate by Taut alone... Or an underground
railway with an attached shopping mall; a sensation at the time. But
don't think that the rich, conservative Zehlendorf would have waited for
the world's overthrowers. Pitched roof or flat roof? That was the
beginning of the Zehlendorf roof war. And what is the situation today?
We will see...
Gropius. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Hugo Häring. Bruno Taut. Otto Rudolf
Salvisberg. Erich Mendelsohn. Richard Neutra. Hans Poelzig. What a name
dropping! They all built here in the 1920s, when Berlin was the centre
of modernism. Come with us on a tour that will show you why modern
architecture was developed here of all places. The magnificent
Onkel-Toms-Hütte forest estate by Taut alone... Or an underground
railway with an attached shopping mall; a sensation at the time. But
don't think that the rich, conservative Zehlendorf would have waited for
the world's overthrowers. Pitched roof or flat roof? That was the
beginning of the Zehlendorf roof war. And what is the situation today?
We will see...
Image gallery
Gropiushaus
Please note that this tour is very walk-intensive.
