The more the … century advances and the more crassly complicated our lives become and the more the hectoring injunctions of the commercial world intrude—EAT! BUY! PLAY! SPEND! ENJOY!—and come to dominate our every waking moment, so do the calm and emptiness, the clean, unimpeded, untrammeled nature of the world German architect Oscar Kranewitter (1891–1929) tried to create (Armut = Poverty), grow ever more appealing.