Chen Kuen Lee, Knittlingen, Germany, 1956
OfHouses guest curated by AMUNT : ”Chen
Kuen Lee was an architect of Chinese descent, working in Germany and Taiwan. He
was a pupil and associate of Hans Scharoun. Subsequently he started his own
business and in the 1950s and 1960s built a variety of apartment buildings and
houses/villas in and around Stuttgart. House Straub Senior was designed as a domicile for a furniture
manufacturer, who also used it as a lived-in exhibition area. The most concise elements of the house – with its
multifaceted living landscape – are the wide span roof construction that connects
the first floor to the bedrooms and the open gallery to the main living space,
the interior pond, and the planting bed. The
house is an architectural icon of living in the garden – of the relation to
nature, which is one of the basic principles of organic architecture – and it
presents us with Lee’s full range of spatial experiences.” (Photos: © AMUNT,
Archiv Michael Koch.)
