What criticism did Walter Gropius later make of the Siemensstadt housing project in Berlin?

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In later years, Walter Gropius criticized his own work on the Siemensstadt housing project in Berlin (1929–30) for being an excessively intellectual solution. He specifically decried the project's rigid orientation and its regular, exceptionally long facades, which he felt resulted in a "curse of uniformity."1