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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schrijver, Lara Delft University of Technology, Niederlande, Author.

Contributor:

University Foundation of Belgium, Funder.

Series:

Architekturen

Architekturen 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture Theory; Urbanism; Culture; 1970s; Architecture;.

Local Subjects:

Architecture Theory; Urbanism; Culture; 1970s; Architecture;.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021

Bielefeld transcript Verlag, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Lara Schrijver is 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.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783839457597

3839457599