Color Planning in Modern Architecture: Focusing on Housing Estates in Germany during the Weimar Period

Abstract

Modern architects developed color planning during the period of Germany’s history known as the Weimar Republic. This study discusses its use in modern architecture by focusing on the Britz housing estate, designed by Bruno Taut in the second half of the 1920s in Berlin. This housing estate consists of threestory apartment houses and two-story townhouses, each of which has different color-planning characteristics. The author tries to clarify them by analyzing an architectural model made with the help of a field study and concludes that Taut's approach to color planning seemed to change within a short period of time.