Hans Scharoun

Bernhard Hans Henry Scharoun (20 September 1893 – 25 November 1972) was a German architect best known for designing the Berlin Philharmonic. (home of the Berlin Philharmonic) and the Schminke House in Löbau, Saxony. He was an important exponent of theorganic and expressionist architecture.

After the end of World War II, he was appointed by the Allies to the city's building council and made director of the Abteilung Bau- und Wohnungswesen des Magistrats (Department of Municipal Building and Housing). In an exhibition in the destroyed ruins of the Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace) entitled Berlin plant – Erster Bericht (Berlin Plans – First Report), he presented his concepts for the reconstruction of Berlin. He immediately found himself in a political no-man's land with the division of the city becoming apparent.

In 1946 he became a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Berlin, with a teaching position at the Lehrstuhl und Institut für Städtebau (Institute for Urban Building).

After the war he was able to realise his ambitious and humanistic architectural conception in exemplary buildings; for example, in the Stuttgart apartment towers of Romeo and Juliet (1954–59), in the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Lünen (1956–62) and in the famous Concert Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic (1956-63).

Common to all these buildings is a new type of entrance to an extremely imaginative and socially differentiated organization of space.
The Philharmonic Concert Hall, internationally recognized as one of the most successful buildings of its kind, is considered Scharoun's finest work. Around the center of the music podium the rows of spectators rise in seemingly irregularly arranged terraces. (Read the article "The acoustics of concert halls")

The German Embassy in Brasilia (1963-1969) remains the only building he constructed outside Germany.
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