Neues Bauen
Neues Bauen. Avant-garde architecture in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, originally associated with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst, then with Häring, and later with new architecture in general, especially of the International Modernist style.
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Lampugnani (ed.) (1988)
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