A place for people - apartment housing

Architectural Review, The, Oct, 1995 by Peter Blundell Jones

Tannhofgrunde is a gentle and pleasant place, and the gestures of the inhabitants seem to indicate that it is possessed and loved. Its dwellings are skilfully and efficiently planned, flexible and unobtrusively detailed, but their architecture is less overtly remarkable than most in this issue. The special qualities of Tannhofgrunde have much more to do with the way in which its territories are laid out and differentiated socially(4) than with any intended architectural rhetoric, and indeed, some might think that such rhetoric was deliberately being avoided.

1 See Architectural Design 1977, pp760-763.

2 Taped interview with the author June 1994.

3 'I won competition after competition because I had learned a lot from Erskine and his principles, especially finding my solution out of the real site.' Riess, ibid.

4 'I tried to find the optimal division of the land to allow each person to develop something.' Riess, ibid.