Urbanik, Jadwiga; Muzeum Architektury <Breslau> [Hrsg.]: WUWA 1929 - 2009: the Werkbund exhibition in Wrocław (Wrocław: Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu, 2010)

2. Model of the Weissenhof housing estate. Die Form 1927, p. 25

structural engineers, chemists and industry to provide new solutions that could have initiated a ra-
tional approach to housing design. Extisting modern materials are often employed with no regard
for their properties. One of the exhibition's prime objectives would be to test a range of modern
materials already available on the market and new types of construction. The focus would first of all
be on assembling buildings from prefabricated elements on site thus, transferring most of the work
from the site to the factory and shortening the actual construction process. Typification and standar-
disation of all elements is a necessary condition for industrialisation.112
The exhibition then was aimed at finding solutions for the new apartment and all related tech-
nical and structural problems. The project's programmatic manifesto contained no requirements
concerning the style of the new architecture and its formal features. The show apartments were

112 WerkbundAusstellung "Die Wohnung" 1927. Exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart 1927, p.5. In the introductory essay, Mies van der Rohe insisted that
standardization was not an end in itself but a means to reach the goal of changing lifestyles, and the quest for the new living space was an
important instrument to make the project successful.