Dialectic was facilitated by Hitler's dislike for modernism, so the German modernists came over to the United States and America took a lot of credit for these German ideas. .
One of the main ideas of the book German Architecture for a Mass Audience is to design architecture so that it would bring together all classes of society and the book focused on specific aspects of surface, structure, space, and spectacle. The new techniques that the Germans were developing tried to bring together the bourgeois, or upper middle class with the lower class masses. The new trend of the time was to build large structures that could hold large masses of people, hence bring people together. For example, the Jahrhunderthalle was a German structure that was done on a large, circular scale. It's also known as the Centennial Hall. The many layers of circles gave the structure a modernistic look to it. Another common theme of the book is the use of concrete in building large structures. The inside of the Jahrhunderthalle is held together by concrete which helps achieve maximum undivided space that can accommodate very large crowds.
An article from a September edition of the New York Times discusses Nancy Talbot and her out of the ordinary modernist home. Mrs. Talbot is an old, 81 year old lady, who much like the Germans wanted to get outside the conventional thoughts concerning her home. She didn't want to live in a "traditional little-old-lady house- but instead built a 1500 square foot, one story house that features glass fazade of two slender rectangles, which bound the two cottages. There is a front cottage that is Mrs. Talbot's private quarters and is 13 by 50 feet. The second cottage has two guest bedrooms, a bath, and a laundry mudroom. Like the Germans were looking for new ideas that differentiated from the "traditional' architecture of the time leading up to Bauhaus, Mrs. Talbot looked for a way to differentiate how she lived and where she lived as an old lady.
