Germany

The Berlin Architect Hinrich Baller

"If it's crooked then it's Baller!"

Between Gaudí and Hundertwasser:
The contemporary Berlin architect Hinrich Baller

Berlin-Schöneberg
Apartment House (1999)
Winterfeldtstraße 39

"This house was built by Baller. As you can see from its lopsided walls, balconies and roofs, it was built by Mr. Baller. This house has big lopsided balconies. Behind the house, there is a large park."

Ugur, Burak and Mehmet about the apartment house on Fränkel embankment in Kreuzberg
(Source: Mein Kiez)

Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Housing Estate Am Preußenpark (2000)
Württembergische/Pommersche Straße

A lot of glass, light, air and foliage: Cheerful, pleasant and human, such is the appearance of the buildings designed by Hinrich Baller, standing out from the grey mass of modern urban development by the absence of right lines and angles and by its delicate ornamentation. Contended in Berlin, his opponents criticize just this cheerfulness and blame him for designing a provincial and idyllic image not being appropriate to the object. It was neither Loos nor Bauhaus, but Gaudí and Hundertwasser giving the example to Baller!

Berlin-Tiergarten
Apartment House
Potsdamer Straße 101

"This crooked house was built by Hinrich Baller. He always built crooked houses because this was interesting. He built these crooked houses because for him, the other houses were boring, and these houses were a fantasy of Mr. Baller.""

Neslihan about the apartment house on Fränkel embankment in Kreuzberg
(Source: Mein Kiez)

Berlin-Charlottenburg: Housing Estate, Schlossstraße 45-47

Berlin-Charlottenburg: Housing Estate, Rönnestraße 16

© S. Schielin, Sélestat

Berlin-Schöneberg
Gymnasium Lilli Henoch of the primary school Spreewald with nursery on top (1998)
Winterfeldtplatz

"The gymnasium on Winterfeldtplatz is now named after the Jewish sportswoman Lilli Henoch murdered by the Nazi regime in 1942. From 1912 until 1940, the athlete, tenfold German Champion and having set four world records, lived in the Bavarian quarter in Schöneberg. The Spreewald Gymnasium is one of the most unusual buildings of Berlin - on its roof, there is a nursery. The ensemble, inaugurated in 1998, had cost around 32 Mio. € and was designed by the Berlin architect Hinrich Baller."
(Berliner Zeitung of March 22, 2005)

Berlin-Charlottenburg
Double gymnasium (1988) of the secondary school Oppenheim
Schlossstraße