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While Eisenhüttenstadt’s original developments constitute an ambitious program for socialist daily life, the 1960s saw the SED party embrace new architectural styles and building technologies which had previously been dismissed as “Western” or “capitalist.” In this archival photo from 1963 the fifth living complex, the first in the city to adopt modes of prefabrication that would mark the last two decades of architectural design in the GDR. Staatsarchiv Eisenhüttenstadt.
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