be its most important element: the architect's use of
a vivid color scheme. Although the contours of Taut's
buildings are often austere, they are distinct from other
similarly streamlined early Modernist buildings insofar
as Taut used color as a design principle rather than a
decorative afterthought—which most architects of the
period eschewed altogether.
Besides the Glass Pavilion (demolished soon after the
Exhibition), Taut, based in Berlin, created monuments
of quite a different kind that survive and are lived in to
this day in that city. One of these, the Onkel-Tom'sHutte housing estate (Uncle Tom's Cabins, named after
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