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here to take its place in the avant-garde of the new Germany."426 "What has been accomplished here
by the persistent will have to contribute to the overcoming of the economic crisis that has confirmed
our nation's immense work potential and its strong resolve to rebound", wrote Ernst May in Das
Neue Frankfurt.427 The local business community, magistrates and city officials generally viewed the
WUWA exhibition as an extravagance which had neither contributed to solving the acute housing
problem nor improved an average citizen's quality of life. The buildings' modern architecture and
layouts seemed controversial, particularly to those with a more conservative outlook. They criticised
the estate's architecture as uprooted from tradition and non-German.428
426 M. [Ernst May ?], 'Die Ausstellung Wohnung und Werkraum in Breslau', Das neue Frankfurt 1929, p.204.
427 Ibidem.
428 Christine NIELSEN, op.cit.
here to take its place in the avant-garde of the new Germany."426 "What has been accomplished here
by the persistent will have to contribute to the overcoming of the economic crisis that has confirmed
our nation's immense work potential and its strong resolve to rebound", wrote Ernst May in Das
Neue Frankfurt.427 The local business community, magistrates and city officials generally viewed the
WUWA exhibition as an extravagance which had neither contributed to solving the acute housing
problem nor improved an average citizen's quality of life. The buildings' modern architecture and
layouts seemed controversial, particularly to those with a more conservative outlook. They criticised
the estate's architecture as uprooted from tradition and non-German.428
426 M. [Ernst May ?], 'Die Ausstellung Wohnung und Werkraum in Breslau', Das neue Frankfurt 1929, p.204.
427 Ibidem.
428 Christine NIELSEN, op.cit.