Alfred Hückler

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Alfred Hückler (born April 25, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German industrial designer and design theorist . From 1970 to 1996 he taught design basics and theory at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art (KHB), of which he was rector from 1991 to 1996 after reunification.

biography

After graduating from high school, Alfred Hückler first studied precision engineering. He then designed and developed mechanical, optical and electronic devices in the industry for 18 years. In 1971/72 he passed the examination for the diploma in design at the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee with Rudi Högner . Since the 1960s he has been dealing with geometric design topics such as shape development, stackability and design aesthetics. From 1970 until his retirement in 1996 he worked continuously as a university lecturer at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art.

In addition to teaching, he was and is a member of committees and organizations such as the central working group "Technische Formgestaltung" of the Chamber of Technology (KdT) in the GDR, juries of the Council for Design and Plagiarism and ICSID congresses in London, Moscow, Norway and Finland. He is also a founding and honorary member of the Mart-Stam Society and a member of the Deutscher Werkbund.

Main areas of activity

Alfred Hückler is one of the few designers and design theorists who deal particularly with the fundamentals of design work. This applies in particular to the aesthetic aspects of geometry as a mathematical discipline and questions of design theory in relation to social and use-related aspects. This also established the design geometry course he introduced in 1978 at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art. Both have shaped several generations of design graduates from the art college.

He received further teaching assignments from Oslo 1982–88, Prague 1989, Halle / S. and Potsdam 2000.

In addition to teaching, he wrote numerous papers and articles in specialist committees of the KDT, design magazines and specialist books.

Publications

• Construction and design In: Die Technik (Berlin) 17 1962, No. 10
• Design as a fundamental component of the development of technical products In: Die Technik (Berlin) 22 1967, No. 12
• Technical design. Guidelines , co-author with Camillo Sitte (publications of the Chamber of Technology, Verlag der Kammer der Technik). Berlin 1968
• Material economy and design In: Technische Gemeinschaft (Berlin) 18 1970, No. 9
• Working stages of the design , co-author with Camillo Sitte In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 4 1972, No. 2
• Furniture for the classroom In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 5 (1973), No. 2
• Goal orientation minimal form. Part 1 In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 5 1973, No. 3
• Goal orientation minimal form. Part 2 In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 5 1973, No. 4
• Development of specific productivity In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 6 1974, No. 2
• Shaping! - design? In: Technische Gemeinschaft (Berlin) 22 1974, No. 4
• Between compact and anthropological In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 7 1975, No. 2
• The irreplaceable aspect of design In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 7 1975, No. 5
• Aesthetic work environment design In: Letter from the Office for Industrial Design to the Congress of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) in Moscow 1975. Berlin 1975
• Product development and industrial design (publications of the Chamber of Technology, Verlag Kammer der Technik). Berlin 1976
• The engineering form In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 8 1976, No. 3
• The way to the representational In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 9 1977, No. 5
• Geometry and the renewal of form In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 10 1978, No. 1
• Form-effective factors in mutual compulsion to determine In: 4th colloquium on questions of the theory and methodology of industrial design of the University of Industrial Design Halle - Burg Giebichenstein (font of the University of Industrial Form design Halle Burg Giebichenstein), Halle 1980
• Finding forms In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 12 1980, No. 2
• Sensual mathematics In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 13 1981, No. 1
• Introduction to industrial design. Lessons 1 and 2 (publications of the Chamber of Technology, Verlag der Kammer der Technik). Berlin 1982
• Design of devices In: Werner Krause (ed.): Device construction (Verlag Technik). Berlin 1982, Chapter 7, pp. 600-634.
• Shaping in fine device technology In: Feingerätetechnik (Berlin) 31 1982, No. 6
• Introduction to industrial design. Lesson 1 and 2 (publications of the Chamber of Technology, 2nd edition). Berlin 1983
• Forms for functions In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 15 1983, No. 4
• Pile. Part 1 In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 15 1983, No. 6
• Pile. Part 2 In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 16 1984, No. 1
• Pile. Part 3 In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 16 1984, No. 2
• Pile. Part 4 In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 16 1984, No. 3
• Design of devices In: Werner Krause (ed.): Device construction (Soviet publishing house of the sciences). Moscow 1985
• Design of consumer goods. Lesson (series of publications by the Technical College for Internal Trade, 1st – 7th edition). Dresden 1986
• Design of devices In: Werner Krause (ed.): Device construction (Hüthig-Verlag). Heidelberg 1986
• Geometry - the link between construction and design In: Feingerätetechnik (Berlin) 35 1986, No. 1
• One-handed scissors. Tools - Function and Form In: Art Education (Berlin) 33 1986, No. 1/2
• Manufacturing form In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 18 1986, No. 2
• Sentences on the area In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 18 1986, No. 3
• Phone. Tools - Function and Form In: Art Education (Berlin) 33 1986, No. 3
• Typewriters In: Art Education (Berlin) 33 1986, No. 5
• Eßbestecke In: Art Education (Berlin) 33 1986, No. 9
• Microscopes In: Art Education (Berlin) 33 1986, No. 10
• Shaving devices In: Art Education (Berlin) 33 1986, No. 11
• On the structure of the form and meanings of industrial products In: 11th design-theoretical colloquium of the University of Industrial Design Halle - Burg Giebichenstein (font of the University of Industrial Form design Halle - Burg Giebichenstein), Halle 1987
• Design of devices In: Werner Krause (ed.): Device construction (Verlag der Technik, 2nd edition). Berlin 1987
• From environmental awareness to ecological knowledge in design theory In: Ecology and Design (series of publications by the Berlin University of the Arts: Design Transfer), Berlin 1990
• Design versus waste In: form + Zweck (Berlin) 23 1991, No. 1
• Environmentally friendly packaging design In: German Design Council (ed.): Networked work - design and the environment. Frankfurt am Main 1992
• Every student has to pass every teacher. In: Angela Schönberger (ed.): New countries New ways (Verlag Ernst & Sohn). Berlin 1993
• The aesthetics of the facts In: Festschrift of the art college Berlin-Weißensee on the 50th anniversary. Berlin 1996
• Hückler, Alfred; Hentschel, Cornelia: > topomorph <. Design geometry - basics of the basics In: Friedhelm Kürpig (Hg.): Aesthetic Geometry - Geometric Aesthetics. 6th conference of the German Society for Geometry and Graphics. Aachen - Kornelimünster 24.-26. March 2010 (Shaker-Verlag). Aachen 2010, 40-
• 60 years of Rögnitz, designing the form In: Opening times. Papers on design science (magazine of the FH Lübeck) 2011, No. 25
• Geometrics , Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-38030-3216-4

Exhibitions

• Geometric objects foyer exhibition. Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee, April / May 1981
• Alongside - Geometric constructions and photography Werkbund-Galerie Berlin, November 1999
• right angled - penetrations drawings collages, prints, reliefs, sculptures. Mies van der Rohe house, Berlin
• On the aesthetics (the geometry) of the DIN format drawings, collages, prints, foil plots, reliefs, sculptures. Werkbund / DIN Institute, Berlin
• DINformArt drawings, collages, prints, foil plots, sculptures. Mathematikum, Giessen

Web links

• Website from Alfred Hückler