In 1926, Paul Renner, director of the Graphische Berufsschule in Munich, Germany, suggested that the progressive Dutch architect Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud be given a leading position at Munich's city planning department. He put forward this idea at a much noted lecture evening devoted to the then current debate about the future of Munich as a cultural center (Kunststadt). Renner believed Oud could help halt the cultural decline of the city. The writer places the debate in its historical and political context and shows how Renner's proposal came to be rejected.
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