Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas: Recalibrating Architecture in the 1970s

Lara Schrijver

book: Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2021

Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas

Recalibrating Architecture in the 1970s

Lara Schrijver
Funded by: University Foundation of Belgium and University of Antwerp

Volume 63 in the series Architekturen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839457597

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Lara Schrijver is a professor in architecture theory at the University of Antwerp Faculty of Design Sciences. She has served as editor for OASE journal for architecture and is editor for the KNOB Bulletin. She is the author of Radical Games (2009) and has published and lectured widely on twentieth-century architecture and its theories.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	7
Preface: Architecture and Disciplinary Crises Open Access Download PDF	9
Chapter 1. The 1970s: Reclaiming Autonomy for the Fait Social Open Access Download PDF	19
Chapter 2. From Delirium to Archipelago, the Postmodern Collective in the City Open Access Download PDF	53
Chapter 3. The House: Crystallized Architecture Thinking Open Access Download PDF	87
Chapter 4. Elements, Rules and Conventions: Architecture as Material Knowledge Open Access Download PDF	121
Epilogue: Recalibrating the Profession Open Access Download PDF	159
Sources Open Access Download PDF	165
Notes Open Access Download PDF	173

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 206
Keywords: Urbanism; Culture; 1970s; Architecture

eBook

Published: October 27, 2021
ISBN: 9783839457597