I was surprised, afterwards, to learn that this was public
housing, such was its clarity and proximity to a lush,
seemingly uncontrived nature. It was only after I saw the
pale and interesting palette of Onkel Toms Hutte that I
made the connection with Taut's Glass Pavilion, which I
then learned was not of clear glass, but of inlaid colored
plates on the façade that acted as mirrors. Taut himself
described his "little temple of beauty" as "…reflections
of light whose colors began at the base with a dark blue
and rose up through moss green and golden yellow to
culminate at the top in a luminous pale yellow."
In 1924 Taut was made chief architect of GEHAG,
a housing cooperative in Berlin, and, in his work for
that organization, created several large residential
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