page_title: Otto Haesler
section_title: Georgsgarten Settlement
hierarchical_section_title: Otto Haesler / Life / Neues Bauen / Georgsgarten Settlement
caption_attribution_description: English: Siedlung Blumläger Feld photographed in April 2015
context_page_description: Otto Haesler was an influential German architect.
  He is often grouped with Bruno Taut, Ernst May and Walter Gropius as being among the most significant representatives of the Modernist architecture that became important initially during the Weimar period, notably in respect of residential accommodation.
context_section_description: Haesler's "Georgsgarten Settlement" ("Siedlung Georgsgarten"), in 1926/27, was the first industrially constructed "ribbon cell" (terraced format) residential development.  With the "Georgsgarten Settlement" Haesler succeeded in creating an "urban planning first".   He applied the "Cabin floor plan" concept developed by Ludwig Hilberseimer, which gave rise to an open-plan cell structure, but combined that with contemporary fashionable touches such as prominent balconies, apparently influenced by the Gropius Bauhaus development in Dessau.   The Georgsgarten also marked the first outing for the protruding three-sided glazed stair housing which from now on became a Haesler trademark.
caption: Blumläger Field Settlement (1930/31)
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