Those look like apartment buildings that you see in Communist countries.
I tracked down that picture and it is listed as taken in 1975 of East Berlin apartments (notice the picture of Erich Honecker in the foreground.
I doubt that a German-American architect who started major designs in 1974 designed a pre-1975 East Berlin apartment complex.
One of the best things I've heard about Communist era eastern European architecture was about the Warsaw Palace of Culture. The best view of the skyline was from the top of the Palace of Culture because you couldn't see it when standing on top of it.