Negotiating Ungers : the aesthetics of sustainability : the solar house / editors, Cornelia Escher, Lars Fischer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Escher, Cornelia, 1981- editor.

Fischer, Lars, 1971- editor.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ungers, O. M. (Oswald Mathias)--Criticism and interpretation.

Ungers, O. M.

Ungers, O. M. (Oswald Mathias).

Architecture--Germany.

Architecture.

Criticism and interpretation.

Germany.

Architecture and solar radiation.

Sustainable architecture.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

112 pages, 124 pages : illustrations, plans ; 17 cm

Other Title:

Aesthetics of sustainability : the solar house

Place of Publication:

Brussels : Common Room, [2020]

Summary:

In 1980, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926?2007) participated in a competition for solar housing. His contribution received a special prize, but the design was never realised and has been largely ignored since. Yet it remains the only project in which the architect explicitly addressed the issue of sustainability. This publication brings his design to light once again, and is the outcome of an unconventional approach to the architect?s design practice that was undertaken as part of the 2018 summer school at the Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft (UAA) in Cologne. What can the position of an ?outsider? contribute to the debate on sustainability?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Contains:

Ungers, O. M. (Oswald Mathias). Works. Selections

ISBN:

9780988290624

0988290626

OCLC:

1231708268