Original sentence: A lifelong painter, Taut is unique among his European modernist contemporaries in his devotion to color.He applied lively, clashing colors to his first major commission, the 1912 Falkenberg housing estate in Berlin, which became known as the "Paint Box Estates".He served as city architect in Magdeburg from 1921 to 1923.In 1924 Taut was made chief architect of GEHAG, a housing cooperative in Gerlin, and was the lead designer of several successful large residential developments ("Gross-Siedlungen") in Berlin, notably the 1925 Horseshoe Development ("Hufeisensiedlung"), named for its configuration around a pond, and the 1926 Uncle Tom's Cabin Development ("Onkel-Toms Hutte") in Zehlendorf, oddly named for a local restaurant and set in a thick grove of trees
Edited sentence: A lifelong painter, Taut is unique among his European modernist contemporaries in his devotion to colour.As in Magdeburg he applied lively, clashing colors to his first major commission, the 1912 Falkenberg housing estate in Berlin, which became known as the "Paint Box Estates".During his time as city architect a few residential developments were build i.Hermann Beims estate (1925-28) with 2,100 flats.In 1924 Taut was made chief architect of GEHAG, a housing cooperative in Berlin, and was the lead designer of several successful large residential developments ("Gross-Siedlungen") in Berlin, notably the 1925 Horseshoe Development ("Hufeisensiedlung"), named for its configuration around a pond, and the 1926 Uncle Tom's Cabin Development ("Onkel-Toms Hutte") in Zehlendorf, oddly named for a local restaurant and set in a thick grove of trees.It was the first project where Taut used colour as a design principle.Taut designed the exhibition hall 'City and Countryside' in 1921 with concrete trusses and a centre sky light.Taut served as city architect in Magdeburg from 1921 to 1923.The 'Reform' estate was build between 1912-15 in the south west of Magdeburg.The construction of the estate was continued by Carl Krayl.The estate comprises of one storey terrace houses for a housing trust