Hugo Häring (11 May 1882 – 17 May 1958) was a German

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and architectural writer best known for his writings on "organic architecture", and as a figure in architectural debates about functionalism in the 1920s and 1930s, though he had an important role as an expressionist architect. Häring was born in

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, in the Kingdom of Württemberg. A student of the great

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, he took the view that each building should be uniquely developed according to the specific demands of the site and client. Few of Häring's designs were built but he was a strong influence on his friend and colleague

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. One built design was a contribution to the

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housing project in Berlin from 1929 through 1931, which was master-planned by Scharoun. Häring was a founding member of both The Ring and CIAM. He was married to actress

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in 1918. the couple later divorced and he married actress Roma Bahn in 1950. He died in Göppingen, aged 76.

Buildings

* 1922–1928: Gut Garkau in

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* 1926/1927: Buildings in the Onkel-Tom-Siedlung in

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* 1929/1930: Ring-Siedlung in Berlin-

* 1929–1931: Prinzenallee/Gotenburger Straße and Stockholmer Straße in

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* 1931/1932: Duplex Vietingergasse 71/72 in the Wiener Werkbundsiedlung in Vienna-Lainz * 1931/1932: Doppelhaus Engelbrechtweg 4 in the Wiener Werkbundsiedlung] in Vienna-Lainz (1945 destroyed, new built by Roland Rainer) * 1938: Landhaus v. Prittwitz in Tutzing * 1950: Hugo-Häring-Häuser in

Bibliography

*M. Aschenbrenner, P. Blundell-Jones, ''Hugo Häring – the Organic versus the Geometric'', Edition Axel Menges, 1999 *P. Blundell-Jones, ''Hugo Häring – New Buildings'', Cambridge University Press, 2003 * Jose-Manuel GARCÍA ROIG, ''"Tres arquitectos alemanes. Bruno Taut. Hugo Häring. Martin Wagner"'', , Valladolid (Spain), 2004,

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, Secretariado de Publicaciones

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Brief description of Haring's career
1882 births 1958 deaths People from Biberach an der Riss People from the Kingdom of Württemberg Expressionist architects 20th-century German architects Modernist architects from Germany Organic architecture Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne members German architecture writers German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-architect-stub