Oswald Mathias Ungers

Oswald Mathias Ungers
Oswald Mathias Ungers
Born July 12, 1926(1926-07-12)
Kaisersesch, Germany
Died September 30, 2007(2007-09-30) (aged 81)
Cologne
Nationality German
Work
Buildings Messe-Torhaus, Frankfurt
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

Oswald Mathias Ungers (July 12, 1926 – September 30, 2007) was a German architect and architectural theorist, known for his rationalist designs and the use of cubic forms. Among his notable projects are museums in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Cologne.

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Biography

Oswald Mathias Ungers was born in Kaisersesch in the Eifel region. From 1947 to 1950 he studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe under Egon Eiermann. He set up an architectural practice in Cologne in 1950, and opened offices in Berlin in 1964, Frankfurt in 1974 and Karlsruhe in 1983.

He was a professor at the Technical University of Berlin from 1963 to 1967 and served as the dean of the faculty of architecture from 1965 to 1967. In 1968 he moved to the United States, where he became the chair of the department of architecture at Cornell University from 1969 to 1975. In 1971 he became a member of the American Institute of Architects. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard University (1973 and 1978) and the University of California, Los Angeles (1974/75). He returned to Germany in 1976, becoming a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (1979/80) and a full professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1986).

Oswald Mathias Ungers died on September 30, 2007 from pneumonia. He was married to Liselotte Gabler and had one son (Simon Ungers) and two daughters.

Selected projects

Proposed or under construction
  • In 2000, he won an architectural competition to redesign the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. His controversial plan proposes large alterations to the building complex which has remained unchanged since 1930. The rebuilding is scheduled to end in 2010.

Writings

  • Entwerfen mit Vorstellungsbildern, Metaphern und Analogien. Anmerkungen zu einem morphologischen Konzept, in: Architektur 1951-1990, Stuttgart 1991
  • Morphologie. City Metaphors, König, 1982
  • Die Thematisierung der Architektur, 1983, published by Technische Universität Dortmund and Walter A.Noebel, Niggli Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7212-0698-2
  • The Dialectic City, Skira Editore, 1997

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