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Oswald Matthias Ungers, Haus Belvederestrasse 60, Koeln-Mungersdorf - Haus Belvederestrabe 60, Koln-Mungersdorf (German, English, Hardcover)
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Oswald Matthias Ungers, Haus Belvederestrasse 60, Koeln-Mungersdorf - Haus Belvederestrabe 60, Koln-Mungersdorf (German, English, Hardcover)
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A house is a representation of the idea of the world, of life, of
existence. For the Cologne architect Oswald Mathias Ungers
(19262007), 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. In the course of his life,
Ungers built himself and his family no less than three houses, two
in the Cologne suburb of Mungersdorf, one in the Eifel highlands.
Even the first house, to which this richly illustrated volume is
dedicated, caused an international sensation; it was considered to
be an important example of so-called Brutalism. It showed
"everything I knew how to do at the time", Ungers wrote regarding
the building. He wanted a house that enveloped and sheltered, he
wanted metamorphosis and transformation; architecture that was
autonomous but at the same time respected the genius loci. At the
time, architects preferred to build their private homes as
freestanding bungalows in the countryside. Ungers, on the other
hand, settled in a place where there were traces of the Roman past
and purchased a plot of land adjacent to an already existing row of
terraced houses. 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.
This building too one of a kind, and in interplay with its
predecessor became a manifesto. It corresponded to the idea of a
house as a small town and the town as a large house, an idea that
has run through European architectural history since Alberti. In
spite of all their differences, the two contrasting formats make
common cause. They show a world full of contradictions, illusions
and realities that reflects the entire spectrum of the image of
architecture, from the fiction to the reality of the function.
Today the house and the library are the seat of the UAA, the Ungers
Archiv fur Architekturwissenschaft, and open to the public. The
architectural historian Wolfgang Pehnt often visited Ungers. The
author of an authoritative book about the architecture of
Expressionism, he profited by Ungers' collection of material back
in the years when Ungers was still interested in Expressionism.
Thus he is familiar with the house in its details and has witnessed
its modifications. As portrayed by him, the history of the origins
of the house gives access to the impressive uvre of a great German
architect.
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