Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
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How it came to be
Between 1910 and 1933 Berlin built a series of housing estates as part of a reform movement to improve homes and living conditions, applying new social and hygienic standards. Most date from the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), and they became a guide for social housing built later.
From the earliest, the Falkenberg garden city of 1913-1916, Bruno Taut planned many of them. The Horseshoe Estate in Britz (1925-1930) was planned by Taut and Martin Wagner, and the Siemensstadt estate (1929-1934) by Hans Scharoun, with Walter Gropius among its architects.
Six estates were inscribed in 2008. In 2026 the Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf (1926-1932) was added, completing a series of seven.
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