Bruno Julius Florian Taut’s Onkel Toms Hütte, or Uncle Tom’s Cabin, stands as a vibrant example of his socialist vision for a better life and the evolution of workers' housing.
A few years later, critics argued that Minimalism was still too extravagant for most people, prompting the movement to shift toward functionalism.
Buildings became simpler, focusing only on purpose and function. But the utopian goals of the New Objectivity movement started to fall apart in Germany under the Nazis and in Russia under Soviet rule. The Great Depression in 1929 made things worse, and the loss of Soviet support led Modernism to change direction in unexpected ways.
