House Krüger

Bruno Ahrends designed a modern house for his friend Hans Krüger who was a secretary of state in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture and a member of the German Social Democrats in Berlin-Dahlem. The plain low-rise building comprised of several staged cubic structures. The street-side façade appears to turn its back through the large plastered walls and the small windows. Yet the rear garden façade opens itself up with three protruding wings and large windows plus a roof garden.
A terrace links the three wings and provides the link to the generous garden space deigned by Georg Pniower. Nowadays the garden is much smaller owing to the cutting up of the property.
The principle of the outer structure is continued in the interior of the building. The functional rooms are on the street side while the living and sleeping quarters face the garden. The building is one of the few examples of the International Style in Dahlem today.