DOI Heft:
Nr. 159 (May 1910)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0293
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
room in a dresden house. designed by prof. paul schultze-naumburg
expresses the wish to mark
out the house unobtru-
sively as a country man-
sion. The situation on
the slope of a hill has in
no way cramped propor-
tions. The sameness and
symmetrical spacing of
the windows with their
setting of green shutters,
the comfortable terrace ex-
tending along the ground
floor, clearly denote that
the keynote of the inside
treatment is breadth and
simplicity. The two
gardens at Mannheim re-
present Professor Schultze-
Naumburg's idea that
garden - designing must
coincide with the human-
ising of nature. The
straight walks, the flower-
new forms ; these come naturally, he thinks, by beds, trees, hedges and pools show that his idea
making use of new technical and hygienic improve- by no means implies a soulless coercion of nature,
ments. Wherever he is reproached for imitating, His walks with their long perspective, his pavilions,
he can always prove that practical considerations pergolas, arbours, trellis and seats recall the style
have led to-day to the same results as in former in vogue a century ago. His interior decorations
days. The houses we reproduce show his character also show his preference for the simple Empire
as an architect. The house at Swinemunde, in style and its German offspring the Biedermeier. The
Pomerania, with its low
sloping red tile roof, is a
distinct adaptation of the
fisherman-cottage of that BB^^^^J^^^^fl\
Northern district. Yet M' ■. ^j.*! j
the architect has under-
stood how to combine H
respect for local traditions
with a full sense of the
modem requirements of
the cultivated citizen.
The country-house at
Schopfheim in Baden
breathes the sense of
purity and of discreet
elegance which marked ^^Bl \
the days of Goethe. It is IV\
at once reposeful and dig-
nified. There are some
modest classical reminis-
cences at the entrance
part of the fagade and
the homely turret in the
centre of the slate roofs room in a Dresden house, designed by prof, paul schultze-naumburg
2IQ
room in a dresden house. designed by prof. paul schultze-naumburg
expresses the wish to mark
out the house unobtru-
sively as a country man-
sion. The situation on
the slope of a hill has in
no way cramped propor-
tions. The sameness and
symmetrical spacing of
the windows with their
setting of green shutters,
the comfortable terrace ex-
tending along the ground
floor, clearly denote that
the keynote of the inside
treatment is breadth and
simplicity. The two
gardens at Mannheim re-
present Professor Schultze-
Naumburg's idea that
garden - designing must
coincide with the human-
ising of nature. The
straight walks, the flower-
new forms ; these come naturally, he thinks, by beds, trees, hedges and pools show that his idea
making use of new technical and hygienic improve- by no means implies a soulless coercion of nature,
ments. Wherever he is reproached for imitating, His walks with their long perspective, his pavilions,
he can always prove that practical considerations pergolas, arbours, trellis and seats recall the style
have led to-day to the same results as in former in vogue a century ago. His interior decorations
days. The houses we reproduce show his character also show his preference for the simple Empire
as an architect. The house at Swinemunde, in style and its German offspring the Biedermeier. The
Pomerania, with its low
sloping red tile roof, is a
distinct adaptation of the
fisherman-cottage of that BB^^^^J^^^^fl\
Northern district. Yet M' ■. ^j.*! j
the architect has under-
stood how to combine H
respect for local traditions
with a full sense of the
modem requirements of
the cultivated citizen.
The country-house at
Schopfheim in Baden
breathes the sense of
purity and of discreet
elegance which marked ^^Bl \
the days of Goethe. It is IV\
at once reposeful and dig-
nified. There are some
modest classical reminis-
cences at the entrance
part of the fagade and
the homely turret in the
centre of the slate roofs room in a Dresden house, designed by prof, paul schultze-naumburg
2IQ