Westhausen
Although I am living near Frankfurt for many years, I don't really know this city. My small trip to “Siedlung Westhausen” was a positive surprise, Westhausen welcomed me, open, colorful and more spacious than I had expected.
Westhausen is one of several settlements planned by Ernst May (1886 - 1970), a German architect and city planner. In the context of a housing shortage, May assembled a powerful staff of progressive architects and initiated the large-scale housing development program “New Frankfurt” in 1925. May's developments were remarkable for the time for being compact, semi-independent, well-equipped with community elements like playgrounds, schools, theatres, and common washing areas. For the sake of economy and construction speed May used simplified, prefabricated forms.
