Individual and Functional
Detached Houses in Berlin from 1950

Ambitiously designed single-family homes were built from the 1950s onwards, especially in West Berlin. Their architects drew consciously on the modernist aesthetic of the 1920s. Styles ranged from organic architecture with its free-flowing, irregular forms in the manner of Hans Scharoun to a revival of Bauhaus ideals based on functionality and clarity. The needs of the occupants influenced the floor plans as well as the fluid transitions between indoor and outdoor space. Each house was given its own distinctive character.