| Oswald Matthias Ungers, Haus Belvederestraße 60, Köln-Müngersdorf Contributor(s): Pehnt, Wolfgang (Preface by), Ehmann, Walter (Photographer), Grimm, Bernd (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 3932565800 ISBN-13: 9783932565809 Publisher: Axel Menges OUR PRICE: $35.91 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture - Antiques & Collectibles - House & Home |
| Series: Opus |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 11.2" W x 12" (1.90 lbs) 63 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |