The Fleckhaus (Bauhaus style) was built in 1959/60 by Germany’s first Art Director Willy Fleckhaus (1925 - 1983) - google tells you more – and famous Swiss archtitect Max Bill.

The Fleckhaus today is still standing in the Bergisches Land region as enchantingly as on the very first day. A bastion of brick. If you carry on from the Leverkusener Kreuz interchange a few kilometers towards Dortmund and take the “Burscheid“ exit, follow signs in the direction of Odenthal, you eventually come to a house that the locals call the “shoe box”. Nowadays the daughter Nelly Fleckhaus lives there with her husband. She was also the one who named the historic building “The Fleckhaus”. Extraordinary editorial meetings once took place here and Europe’s most important photographers journeyed to the German provinces to try and convince the major Art Director of the Sixties of their attributes. Strolling through the rooms, you become aware that the Fleckhaus is an echo of a scaled-down Ulm-style monastic form made private: Narrow hallways, bare walls and right angles dominate.