Studio Job Floris, Gastprofessur Fakultät Architektur, TU Dresden/Into The Wild: Tessenow’s Hellerau; Summerterm 2020/2021 TU Dresden

Overlooking the city in the Elbe valley, the garden city Hellerau is located on a sandy slope on the northern edge of Dresden. Founded in 1908, Hellerau is the pioneering settlement in Germany following the theory of Ebenezer Howard. While several architects contributed to the garden city, Rostock born Heinrich Tessenow was the main guest invited to this semester’s table. It feels strikingly obvious to look at the principles of Hellerau and the architecture of Heinrich Tessenow when discussing sustainability and sufficiency today. In a first phase we took a close look at the buildings of Heinrich Tessenow in Hellerau and discussed how his architectural language was informed by the collective ideals of the Garden city.