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Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas: Recalibrating Architecture in the 1970s
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Abstract Lara Schrijver examines the work of Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas as intellectual legacy of the 1970s for architecture today. Particularly in the United States, this period focused on the autonomy of architecture as a correction to the social orientation of the 1960s. Yet, these two archite... view more
Lara Schrijver examines the work of Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas as intellectual legacy of the 1970s for architecture today. Particularly in the United States, this period focused on the autonomy of architecture as a correction to the social orientation of the 1960s. Yet, these two architects pioneered a more situated autonomy, initiating an intellectual discourse on architecture that was inherently design-based. Their work provides room for interpreting social conditions and disciplinary formal developments, thus constructing a `plausible' relationship between the two that allows the life within to flourish and adapt. In doing so, they provide a foundation for recalibrating architecture today.... view less
Keywords
architecture; culture
Classification
Natural Science and Engineering, Applied Sciences
Free Keywords
Architecture Theory; Urbanism; 1970s
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
204 p.
Series
Architecture, 63
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457597
ISSN
2702-8089
ISBN
978-3-8394-5759-7
Status
Published Version; reviewed