New Objectivity
Photo: Pat & Patachon
New Objectivity
This tour leads you to the Openair Museum of Architecture and Urban Planning. It gives you glimpses into a trailblazing architectural reform movement: the “New Objectivity" of the 1920s.
Neues Bauen was a movement in architecture and urban planning in Germany from the 1910s to 1930s. Due to pressing social problems and a massive demand for housing, it attempted to create affordable living space for workers and employees as well as families. At the time, tenements shaped the Berlin cityscape. The Neues Bauen architects responded to the partially disgraceful living conditions with a radically new concept: Light and airy apartments in a green setting, with plenty of sunlight. They were characterised by the industrial design style, with simple, strictly geometric forms and – the distinguishing feature, as it were – the flat roof. You can find a number of important examples of this in the Weitling neighbourhood.
