page_title: Franz Hillinger
section_title: Neues Bauen
hierarchical_section_title: Franz Hillinger / Neues Bauen
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Roter süd-östlicher Gartenhof der Carl-Legien-Siedlung mit unterschiedichen - aber immer großen -, voneinander effektiv getrennten, regengeschützten und ruhig zum Hof gelegen Balkonen.
context_page_description: Franz Hillinger was an architect of the Neues Bauen movement in Berlin and in Turkey.
context_section_description: In 1924, Hillinger became head of the design office at the Gemeinnützige Heimstätten-, Spar- und Bau-Aktengesellschaft (GEHAG), a position he held for nearly ten years; there he collaborated on several projects with Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner, who designed buildings for GEHAG as independent architects. Hillinger's most significant achievement from this period is the Carl Legien Estate, a Berlin modernist housing estate in the Prenzlauer Berg subdivision, which he developed for GEHAG between 1928 and 1830 in collaboration with Bruno Taut.
  In 1925, Hillinger envisioned a model community of in the Neues Bauen style consisting of 1,145 apartments of 1½ to 3½ rooms each, all with central heating, and each with an ample balcony or loggia. An integral part of his concept for this housing estate were several shops, a communal laundry with childcare, a management office, and large open areas and interior courtyards lush with greenery. Hillinger found inspiration for his endeavor in the Tusschendijken housing project in Rotterdam, built in 1920/21 by Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud; for this reason, the Carl Legien Estate is sometimes referred to as the "Flemish Quarter."
  Because of the Great Depression and the seizure of power by the National Socialists, who rejected the Neues Bauen style, only the first two construction phases were realized according to plan; the third, delayed until the end of the 1930s, was made to conform with the conventional Mietskaserne or rental-barracks style.
  From 1931 to 1932, Hillinger was also a lecturer in architecture at the Technical University of Berlin as Bruno Taut's assistant.
caption: Carl Legien housing estate (constructed 1928-1930)
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