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These six estates also provide really extraordinary examples on how new urban and architectural typologies have developed during an economic depression. Bruno Taut, Martin Wagner, and Walter Gropius (the founder of the Bauhaus Art Movement), these members were the leading architects of the modern housing estates. As mentioned earlier, this housing estate was for the low-income families in Berlin, all these apartments share a standardized apartment and room sizes. Leberecht Migge was the architect of landscape for this project and responsible for planning the open space. Therefore, Scharoun (the man in charge of the zone planning) "envisioned a north-south alignment of multi-story row buildings as a lush green city". This helped in the preservation of the old tree population. The original population in the housing estate grew up in the districts of Charlottenburg and the eastern part of Spandau, in Berlin. With the closeness of all the production plant, and with the existence of railways, the member had to obtain a special permission from the government to build a large-scale urbanization. During the walk through of Siemensstadt, it is worth noticing these very few details to design by the architects. When vising Hans Scharoun's building Jungfernheideweg, its entrance to the estate is designed to look like a funnel. He also borrowed ideas from maritime architecture, which are include in his building such as circular windows reminiscent of portholes, differences in height such as in the decks on board. With all the different approaches and styles applied by all the participant architecture involved in the project, they all surprisingly shared many similarities with using building materials. As Walter groupies was a part of this project, it was strongly influenced by Bauhaus Art Movement. Many examples of Bauhaus architecture can be seen through every house in the estate with all the interior walk are built with thick brick or stone, exposing the raw 'true' form of the material. UNESCO named Siemensstadt on its World Heritage List. After the completion of the estate, it set a new housing standard for other projects with allowing good natural lighting and ventilation to all its units. Late in the year Siemensstadt also served as a model, in the production of new housing blocks to be built after the Second World War.

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To conclude, this tour focuses on the different historical architecture and art that was inspired by the Bauhaus movement in the mid-20th century. This movement was highly controversial at the time as the main goals of the movement were to unite modern art with functional design to create an aesthetically beautiful style of architecture. Through our research we have learned that the movement was very unique as it inspired a more modern style of design and art while defying societal conceptions at the time, facing much controversy due to the Nazi influence at the time. Through the opening of the Bauhaus school of art by Walter Gropius in 1919 the gap was bridged between art and industry. Gropius hoped to instill in the students that art, architecture and geometric design can work together in harmony to create a cheap, aesthetically pleasing, simplistic plan. Overall, this tour encompasses the growth of this art movement through architecture and functional yet simplistic design. Through the various architecture, you see in the buildings on the tour to the artwork and resources found in the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Archiv you are able to see how the Bauhaus movement was about practicality and simplicity with mass production and using the material in its 'real' form.

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