I am reading David H. Haney's
When Modern was Green: Life and Work of Landscape Architect Leberecht Migge (Routledge, Abingdon 2010). Two internal reserve developments - very different ones - leap out.
1926 Onkel Toms Hutte was, Haney writes, built in 'a much-loved conifer forest on the edge of the wealthy Zehlendorf villa district... simple modernist housing blocks among stands of evergreen trees... stood out against the plain facades... the main open spaces were semi-public courtyard-like wooded areas inside the major blocks.' (p. 185)
(p. 189)
1927 'Housing blocks in Berlin had traditionally contained one or more inner courts, a type that Migge proposed to enlarge to the greatest extent possible, to be planted as garden-like spaces, complemented by roof gardens providing still more outdoor activity areas... A housing block in the Berlin district of Pankow designed by Erwin Gutkind, with a garden court by Migge, was shown as a concrete example.' (pp. 193-4)
(p. 189)
1927 'Housing blocks in Berlin had traditionally contained one or more inner courts, a type that Migge proposed to enlarge to the greatest extent possible, to be planted as garden-like spaces, complemented by roof gardens providing still more outdoor activity areas... A housing block in the Berlin district of Pankow designed by Erwin Gutkind, with a garden court by Migge, was shown as a concrete example.' (pp. 193-4)
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