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    Oswald Mathias Ungers was a German architect and educator born in 1926 who practiced from the 1950s until his death in 2007. He taught at several prominent universities including the Technical University of Berlin, Cornell, Harvard, UCLA, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Notable ideas from his writings include advocating for the rebuilding and adaptation of existing environments rather than proposing entirely new utopias, and promoting pluralistic and flexible architectural solutions determined by specific contexts and user needs.

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    Oswald Mathias Ungers was a German architect and educator born in 1926 who practiced from the 1950s until his death in 2007. He taught at several prominent universities including the Technical University of Berlin, Cornell, Harvard, UCLA, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Notable ideas from his writings include advocating for the rebuilding and adaptation of existing environments rather than proposing entirely new utopias, and promoting pluralistic and flexible architectural solutions determined by specific contexts and user needs.

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    Oswald Mathias Ungers was a German architect and educator born in 1926 who practiced from the 1950s until his death in 2007. He taught at several prominent universities including the Technical University of Berlin, Cornell, Harvard, UCLA, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Notable ideas from his writings include advocating for the rebuilding and adaptation of existing environments rather than proposing entirely new utopias, and promoting pluralistic and flexible architectural solutions determined by specific contexts and user needs.

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    Oswald Mathias Ungers

    06.12.1926 - 09.30.2007
    First practice - Cologne 1950
    Professor
    Technical University of Berlin
    '63-'67

    Cornell
    '69-'75

    Notable student - Rem Koolhaas

    Harvard
    '73-'78

    UCLA
    '74-'75

    University of Applied Arts Vienna '79-'80

    Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
    '86
    The problem is no longer posed as the designing of a completely new environment, but
    rather the rebuilding of what already exists...
    There is no need for a new Utopia but rather to
    create a better reality. O.M. Ungers

    Lotus International
    International Bilingual Italian Publication

    Circulation - 1963
    Reference for

    Architectural Debate

    International Developments in Architecture

    Authoritative Critics

    Leading Figures in Contemporary Architecture

    Planning Criteria
    1. Dialectic Process



    -Confrontation with existing environment


    -Acceptance of specific economic, social and historical conditions
    -Design determined by the specific building task
    -Integration into an existing context

    2. Planning and Accident






    -Accidents sometimes turned into an architectural events


    -Primary definition of plan, basic framework
    -Secondary, spontaneous and if necessary temporary
    -Develop a design strategy for every specific solution
    -Individualistic architecture within a fixed set of rules

    3. Plurality of Solutions


    -Architectural interpretation of one and the same element


    -Catalogue of alternatives, in contrast to an ideal solution
    -Flexibility vs. fixity, objectivity vs. subjectivity, process vs. object

    4. Urban Characteristics of Architecture vs.


    Architecture as an Object



    -Diminish Object character in favor of an architecture concept


    -Higher degree of quality than only a simple organization of a
    program
    -Architecture can become an urban element

    5. Providing for the User




    -Adaptable enough to respond to human needs and changes


    -Minimal design which allows for maximum flexibility
    -Transformation from an authoritarian act to participation

    Planning Criteria

    WALLRAF-RICHARTZ MUSEUM
    Planning - 1975

    Planning Criteria
    WALLRAF-RICHARTZ MUSEUM
    Cologne, Germany
    1996 - 2000

    Cities Within the City


    Depopulation





    -74% of the population prefer an apartment in the country to an


    apartment in the city. (Demoscopic Bureau of Allensbach '75)
    -Depopulation in NYC during the '70s approx. 800,000
    -Two urban design tendencies to be avoided; nostalgia and
    increased development
    -Avoid the prominence of a single principle (small town)

    -Convergence of multiple principles produces a climate


    of functionality
    -Cities with populations that outgrow their effectiveness ruin the
    human environment
    -Diminution rather than giantism leads to better quality of life
    -Partial demolition of superfluous districts can open redevelopment
    -Zones that deserve to be preserved should be

    -City, federation of single towns with different structures,


    developed in a deliberately antithetic manner
    -High building density to be diminished to create free space
    -Each part of the city has an identity of its own that diversifies it
    -City within a city is in antithesis to city as single whole
    -Individualization while moving away from standardization

    -Islands in the city to be divided from each other by strips of green


    -Embrace the motorway to link up to supermarkets, drive-in
    cinemas, drive-in banks
    -Urban villa as residential building because 70% of people prefer
    detached home to one in a block
    -Partial demolition of superfluous districts can open redevelopment
    -Zones that deserve to be preserved should be

    Differentiated Urban Structure

    City-Archipelago

    Space (Green)

    Cities Within the City


    Differentiated Urban Structure

    Cities Within the City


    Depopulation





    -74% of the population prefer an apartment in the country to an


    apartment in the city. (Demoscopic Bureau of Allensbach '75)
    -Depopulation in NYC during the '70s approx. 800,000
    -Two urban design tendencies to be avoided; nostalgia and
    increased development
    -Avoid the prominence of a single principle (small town)

    -Convergence of multiple principles produces a climate


    of functionality
    -Cities with populations that outgrow their effectiveness ruin the
    human environment
    -Diminution rather than giantism leads to better quality of life
    -Partial demolition of superfluous districts can open redevelopment
    -Zones that deserve to be preserved should be

    -City, federation of single towns with different structures,


    developed in a deliberately antithetic manner
    -High building density to be diminished to create free space
    -Each part of the city has an identity of its own that diversifies it
    -City within a city is in antithesis to city as single whole
    -Individualization while moving away from standardization

    -Islands in the city to be divided from each other by strips of green


    -Embrace the motorway to link up to supermarkets, drive-in
    cinemas, drive-in banks
    -Urban villa as residential building because 70% of people prefer
    detached home to one in a block
    -Partial demolition of superfluous districts can open redevelopment
    -Zones that deserve to be preserved should be

    Differentiated Urban Structure

    City-Archipelago

    Space (Green)

    Cities Within the City


    City-Archipelago

    Housing Structure

    Urban Island

    Towns in the Town

    Cities Within the City


    Depopulation





    -74% of the population prefer an apartment in the country to an


    apartment in the city. (Demoscopic Bureau of Allensbach '75)
    -Depopulation in NYC during the '70s approx. 800,000
    -Two urban design tendencies to be avoided; nostalgia and
    increased development
    -Avoid the prominence of a single principle (small town)

    -Convergence of multiple principles produces a climate


    of functionality
    -Cities with populations that outgrow their effectiveness ruin the
    human environment
    -Diminution rather than giantism leads to better quality of life
    -Partial demolition of superfluous districts can open redevelopment
    -Zones that deserve to be preserved should be

    -City, federation of single towns with different structures,


    developed in a deliberately antithetic manner
    -High building density to be diminished to create free space
    -Each part of the city has an identity of its own that diversifies it
    -City within a city is in antithesis to city as single whole
    -Individualization while moving away from standardization

    -Islands in the city to be divided from each other by strips of green


    -Embrace the motorway to link up to supermarkets, drive-in
    cinemas, drive-in banks
    -Urban villa as residential building because 70% of people prefer
    detached home to one in a block
    -Partial demolition of superfluous districts can open redevelopment
    -Zones that deserve to be preserved should be

    Differentiated Urban Structure

    City-Archipelago

    Space (Green)

    Cities Within the City


    Space (Green)

    Outliers

    Manhattan

    St. Cyril - Detroit, Michigan

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