In Rust in southern Baden, the new kindergarten with its black façade occupied the local council; in Neuwied in the Rhineland-Palatinate, citizens were outraged by a new black building in their neighborhood; in Munich, a house completely covered in dark Bakelite caused a sensation, as did one in Stuttgart, where a renowned architect turned his home into a little black house; and in Berlin, residents and the capital’s press groaned in the face of numerous new buildings in the color of death. What is driving developers and architects alike into a boom in black buildings? Is the bright white an alternative? Are we about to see a counter-boom in the joy of color?
