Deco Auf Deutsch: The Berlin Modernism Housing Estates Video Event

About the Event:

During the 1920s, Germany and France shared a special aesthetic connection, with artists in both countries freely collaborating across the creative spectrum, particularly in the area of modern design. This had a profound effect on housing in the German capital, which after the Greater Berlin Act of 1920 became the third largest municipality in the world. This consolidation resulted in the need for significant urban planning reforms, much of which centered on the creation of new, state-initiated apartments which were intended to not only alleviate overcrowding, but also introduce a better, more hygienic mode of living. 

In a true reflection of the period, architectural elements from both the Art Deco and Bauhaus movements were utilized in this city-wide construction project, and the result was a series of six groundbreaking modernist housing complexes — all distinctly individual in style, and designed by some of the era’s most prominent architects, including Bruno Taut, Martin Wagner, Walter Gropius, and Hans Scharoun, among others — which still exist today and together have been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This profusely illustrated presentation will explore not only the history of this unique architectural and social endeavor, but also how its international integration of stylistic methodologies created a lasting testament to the power and impact of modern design. 

Even though this event is online, it will include a live PowerPoint — with wonderful images that you will be able to see directly on your computer screen, tablet, or mobile device — as well as a Q&A session with participants. 

Can’t join us at the time of the live event? No problem! Those who register will receive a recording of the entire program a few days after the live presentation. When you sign up for the program you have the opportunity to watch, or rewatch, the recording at a time more convenient for your schedule.

About the Speaker:

Lauren Miller Walsh is both ADSNY’s Executive Director and a design historian with a Master’s degree in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies from Cooper Hewitt/Parsons, where she specialized in late 19th—mid-20th-century European and American decorative arts, architecture, and printed material. She is the author of several papers on Art Deco and modernist design, and her graduate thesis, Weimar Rococo: The Cinema Posters of Josef Fenneker in 1920s Berlin, examined how the era's film industry impacted German society and aesthetics, with comparative sections on contemporaneous work in France and the United States.

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