Der Ring

The ring was an association of leading architects of the style similar to the International Modern New Building in the Weimar Republic. It was founded in Berlin in 1926. This was preceded by the ring of the Founded in 1924, Ten Ring, a federation of ten modern architect, who was limited to the city of Berlin. The ring was up to its self-dissolution ( enforced in the wake of the DC Circuit) 1933.

History of establishment

"The Ring " was a union of young architects, who made ​​it his goal to promote the new architecture. He moved so that position against the then outdated in the architecture design language of historicism. In addition to a creative new beginning, the members of the ring were also looking for new construction techniques. Unlike other associations that time or the previous ups Glass Chain and Workers' Art however, there was no fully formulated program that provided an ideological background. The members were of sometimes very different attitudes in solving the tasks assigned to them. Hugo Häring (1882 - 1958) and Hans Scharoun (1893 - 1972) advocated a more organic functionalism, while Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 - 1969) and Walter Gropius (1883-1969) more interested in the possibilities of industrial building.

Clearly the different views are also in the large housing estates that time, in which members of the ring participated. During the construction of the large settlement of Siemens City in Berlin ( 1929 to 1931 ) were the same six members ( Bartning, Forbat, Gropius, Häring, Henning and Scharoun ) involved. Some members were later leader of the Deutscher Werkbund. Ten of the members took part in their buildings with the Werkbund exhibition " The Apartment " in Stuttgart- Weißenhof, which was organized by Mies, since 1926 deputy chairman of the Werkbund.

The driving force behind the creation were Hugo Häring and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who at that time shared an office in Berlin. They were both already members of the ten - ring, which had been founded with similar goals two years earlier. Since this could " achieve significant results " not in the opinion of the Luckhardt brothers, decided the members of the ten - ring to expand the circle of premises and personnel. For this purpose, they said, in a circular letter in April 1926 to several architects in Germany and Austria and invited them immediately reach a constituent meeting in Berlin. The members had been founded in 1918 November Group, an association of painters, sculptors and architects who wanted to implement the pulses of the November revolution in the field of art were also requested.

On 29 May 1926, 16 architects met in the office of Mies, gave themselves a program and chose Hugo Häring to her secretary. The magazine " The Shape" wrote in Issue No. 10 of 1926 to:

"In the meantime, the German architects who follow in their work the newly discovered laws of creation that completed their merger., The Ring ' - Figure a self-contained form without tip - brings together a group of like -minded people to promote their common ideal targets ".

Work and work

At the constituent meeting you put the form of association that:

" No club. No officer. . Lodges character, with all the given members' commitments to one another and to the outside "The goals were: " Statement on the Bauproblemen the present " " opinion on the state and federal construction policy and construction industry. " " Archiving ... and exchange of technical experience. ... " " exhibitions. Publications ... " in the daily press and in professional journals. To promote competition systems, it was decided the " establishment of a committee to draw up binding guidelines for participation and prize judge. "

For the publication of material of the members should be collected. The same was true for the published texts. Members should use for lectures material from a common landscaped slide archive. In the construction world, the members of the ring regularly published a leaflet.

With the rise of Nazism and the increasing differences between Hugo Häring and other members broke up in 1933, " The Ring" at. Some of the members had previously turned his back.

As a counter to the organization aligned to the international modern ring in 1928 founded the Architects Association The block, which advocated a more conservative and regionally based variant of architectural modernism.

Members

  • Walter Behrendt, Berlin
  • Richard Döcker, Stuttgart
  • Fred Forbat, Berlin
  • Walter Gropius, Dessau
  • Otto Haesler, Celle
  • Paul Rudolf Henning, Berlin
  • Ludwig Hilberseimer, Berlin
  • Arthur Korn, Berlin
  • Carl Krayl, Magdeburg
  • Johann Wilhelm teaching, Wiesbaden
  • Hans Luckhardt, Berlin
  • Vasily Luckhardt, Berlin
  • Ernst May, Frankfurt am Main
  • Adolf Meyer, Frankfurt am Main
  • Bernhard Pankok, Stuttgart
  • Adolf rading, Wroclaw
  • Hans Scharoun, Berlin
  • Karl Schneider, Hamburg
  • Heinrich Tessenowstraße, Berlin
  • Martin Wagner, Berlin

Previously joined forces in Berlin tens ring were:

Modern architecture Functionalism (architecture) November Group (German) Walter Curt Behrendt Arthur Korn (architect) Wassili Luckhardt Adolf Meyer (architect) Martin Wagner (architect) Integrated Authority File
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