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Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

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Aluminum City Terrace, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

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See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data.
Significance: Aluminum City Terrace, the only housing project in America designed by world-renowned architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, was built by the federal government to house defense workers during World War II. The Terrace was the first defense housing development sold under the federal government's Mutual Home Ownership Plan and continues to operate as a successful cooperative.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N766
Survey number: HAER PA-302
Building/structure dates: 1941- 1942 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1965 Subsequent Work

The Bauhaus was influenced by 19th and early-20th-century artistic directions such as the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as Art Nouveau and its many international incarnations, including the Jugendstil and Vienna Secession. In the Weimar Republic, a renewed liberal spirit allowed an upsurge of radical experimentation in all the arts. The most important influence on Bauhaus was modernism, a movement whose origins lay as early as the 1880s. After World War Germans of left-wing views were influenced by the cultural experimentation that followed the Russian Revolution, such as constructivism. The Bauhaus style, however, also known as the International Style, was marked by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design. Bauhaus is characterized by simplified forms, rationality, and functionality, and the idea that mass production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit.

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Gropius, Walter
Breuer, Marcel
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Location

New Kensington (Pa.)40.57116, -79.73607
Google Map of 40.5711602, -79.73606989999999
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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