Oswald Matthias Ungers, Haus Belvederestraße 60, Köln-Müngersdorf
Oswald Matthias Ungers, Haus Belvederestraße 60, Köln-Müngersdorf
- ISBN 13:
9783932565809
- ISBN 10:
3932565800
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 06/07/2016
- Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
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Summary
For the Cologne architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007), owner of a famous collection of books on architecture, who also repeatedly addressed the theoretical aspects of building, the construction of his own house, in 1958/59, was more than a private adventure. For him it meant a chance to gain spatial experience and explore what was possible. It was a laboratory, »a little universe«, »a piece of world«. Three decades later, Ungers expanded the cataract of forms of his first home by adding a geometrically strict cube, intended to house his library. The shock aesthetics of the early work had evolved into the rigorous abstractness of his late work.