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

The year 2009 is marked by the eightieth anniversary of an unusual event - the construction of an experimental
housing estate built as part of the Wohnung und Werkraum (Living and Work Space) exhibition in 1929 in Wroclaw
(Breslau). The project was under the auspices of the Silesian section of the German Werkbund, an organisation which
played an instrumental role in promoting modern architecture. The exhibition became a major event reviewed and
commented upon not only in Germany but also in most European countries and the United States.
The WUWA housing estate in Wroctaw is an excellent example of the new architectural trends of the late 1920’s,
the final years of the Weimar Republic. It is Germany where an influential movement for modern housing estates
emerged, embodying the spirit of the Golden Twenties (Goldene Zwanziger Jahre). The housing estate built as part of
the project was one out of eight similar developments built under the auspices of the Werkbund in Europe.



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