developments that aspired to make of row houses and
apartment buildings subtly colored temples of beauty for
the middle class. The designs were marked by modern
flat roofs, plentiful sun and air, private gardens (in the
case of one-family houses) and then-state-of-the-art
gas, electricity and bathrooms. Today Taut's modernist
housing estates, notably the 1925 Hufeisensiedlung
(Horseshoe Development), named for its configuration
around a pond, are recognized as UNESCO World
Heritage Sites. The Hufeisensiedlung combines private
two story villas with an impressive apartment complex in
a convex whiplash form.
Taut himself occupied a Horseshoe villa as a vacation
house, and today it is possible to stay in this small shrine as
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