A commission for a series of houses resulted in the design known as the EW58 with about 500,000 being built in the GDR beginning in 1958 .
The EW58 went on to become widely popular .
A commission for a series of houses resulted in the design known as the EW58 , which went on to become widely popular , with about 500,000 being built in the GDR beginning in 1958 .