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In 1909, Karl Ernst
Osthaus succeeded in having the Dutch architect Jan Ludovicus
Mathieu Lauweriks (1864-1936) appointed head of Hagen's handicraft
faculty. As part of his planning for the artists' colony
"Hohenhagen", he proposed constructing exemplary houses in
the street "Am Stirnband". Between 1910 and 1914,
Lauweriks designed nine houses according to a newly developed
architectural theory based on arithmetical and geometrical formulae
with fixed units of measurement.
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The houses
are individually designed yet form an integral whole, thanks to the new
theory: lines taken up from one building to the next and constantly
recurring materials and colours - bricks, natural stone, wood. The
detached and semi-detached houses, some set forward and some set back from
the road, share a common roof height and this link is strengthened by the
way the gables are turned to face one another. |
