Design

The Dream of the Bauhaus Is Alive Just Outside Pittsburgh

Aluminum City Terrace was a project of the Federal Works Agency and the only multi-tenant housing taken on by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer in the U.S.

For all of Gropius and Breuer's fervid interest in introducing Bauhaus rationalism, prefabrication, and mass housing to the United States, their partnership mainly produced single-family home commissions. Aluminum City Terrace was their one joint foray into multi-tenant housing.Library of Congress

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By Anthony Paletta

March 12, 2019 at 1:00 PM UTC

A steep hillside site in a mill town 25 miles from Pittsburgh is an unlikely site for the one housing development in the United States designed by Bauhaus luminaries Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius.

But perhaps so would anywhere else.