“回顾一生,我最大的成就莫过于1898-1914年在青岛经营建筑公司。”青岛“里院”建筑形态的创立者之一阿尔弗莱德·希姆森(Alfred SiemBen 1857~1946)在回忆录中写到。做为一名成功的房地产商,阿尔弗莱德·希姆森在1898年之后,根据曾在东南亚、厦门和上海等地生活工作的经历,将亚热带建筑形式进行改良创新成一种新的商住形式,并引入了建设中的大鲍岛华人城区。这种建筑形式为两层,平面采用了合院的形式,中间为天井,底层为店铺,二层起居住房。而 “Looking back on my life, my greatest achievement is to run a construction company in Qingdao from 1898 to 1914. ” Qingdao “courtyard ” Alfred SiemBen, one of the founders of the architectural form (Alfred SiemBen 1857 ~ 1946) wrote in memoirs. As a successful real estate developer, Alfred Himmsen, after 1898, based on his experiences of living and working in Southeast Asia, Xiamen and Shanghai, improved the subtropical architectural form into a new commercial and residential Form, and the introduction of the construction of the large Bao Island Chinese city. This form of two buildings, flat with a courtyard in the form of the middle courtyard, the bottom of the shop, two-story living. and