Editing New Objectivity (section)

==Architecture==
[[Image:Goethe University Frankfurt Poelzig Building Panorama.jpg|thumb|380px|left|Panorama of the [[IG Farben Building]] from the south, demonstrating how the curved shape of the building's façade reduces the impact of its scale]]

{{Main|New Objectivity (architecture)}}

New Objectivity in architecture, as in painting and literature, describes German work of the transitional years of the early 1920s in the [[Weimar culture]], as a direct reaction to the stylistic excesses of [[Expressionist architecture]] and the change in the national mood.  Architects such as [[Bruno Taut]], [[Erich Mendelsohn]] and [[Hans Poelzig]] turned to New Objectivity's straightforward, functionally minded, matter-of-fact approach to construction, which became known in Germany as {{lang|de|[[Neues Bauen]]}} ("New Building"). The {{lang|de|Neues Bauen}} movement, flourishing in the brief period between the adoption of the [[Dawes plan]] and the rise of the [[Nazi]]s, encompassed public exhibitions like the [[Weissenhof Estate]], the massive urban planning and public housing projects of Taut and [[Ernst May]], and the influential experiments at the [[Bauhaus]].