"Life is a continuous practice."
(Hugo Kükelhaus)
"What does exhaust us is the disuse of our organs and our senses, the disconnection, repression… what does motivate us is development. Development that takes place because we are challenged by the outer world."
(Hugo Kükelhaus)
"If I was successful, I would say I failed."
(Hugo Kükelhaus)
Window in the Erlöserkirche Essen
"Nobody entirely understands him, but anybody can infer from his ideas whatever they need."
(Uta Joeressen)
"Complementary to the transformation of their own planet into a heap of waste, people also decompose their own organisms, particularly their environmental organs."
(Hugo Kükelhaus)
"Kükelhaus has made an independent intellectual contribution to building that can lead architecture more toward the individual, the tolerant, the natural, the considerate, the meaningful."
(Hartmut Niederwöhrmeier)
Window in the Pestalozzi School Soest
"Life lives on stimulation. Stimulation is something very sensitive, which means, it may neither be too strong nor too weak. Weak stimulation leads to the development of organs, medium stimulation strengthens them, strong stimulation impedes them and too strong, a stimulation destroys them."
(Hugo Kükelhaus)
Inside the "priceless house"
Stone relief in the Soest District Hall

Hugo Kükelhaus Society

We would like to give you an insight into the works of Hugo Kükelhaus and invite you to become acquainted with the unusual as well as diverse works of a person who gave some significant impulses to different areas of life such as education, architecture and ecological ways of thinking.

Mit den Sinnen leben Hugo Kükelhaus (1900 - 1984)
Educator, craftsman, philosopher, artist,
scholar, author

Hugo Kükelhaus Portrait "Human evolution is best supported by an environment which offers a balanced diversity of stimuli.

Regardless of whether this world is built of physical or social conditions and factors - the diversity of the environment is the foundation of life."

Hugo Kükelhaus Society

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