Oswald Mathias Ungers

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Oswald Mathias Ungers was a prominent German architect and theorist known for his rationalist, geometric designs and influential role in postwar European architecture.

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instanceOf architect
architecture theorist
human
awardReceived Großer Kunstpreis Berlin
Medal of Honor of the German Architects Association (BDA)
countryOfCitizenship Germany
dateOfBirth 1926-07-12
dateOfDeath 2007-09-30
educatedAt Technical University of Karlsruhe
employer Cornell University
Technical University of Berlin
University of California, Los Angeles
familyName Ungers
fieldOfWork architectural theory
architecture
genre architectural theory
givenName Oswald
hasWorkLocation Berlin
Cologne
Frankfurt am Main
influenced German rationalist architects
postwar European architecture
influencedBy modernist architecture
languageOfWorkOrName English
German
movement postmodern architecture
rationalism in architecture
name Oswald Mathias Ungers
nationality German
notableIdea city as a collection of architectural islands
rationalist urban design
use of pure geometric forms in architecture
notableWork German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main
Kunsthalle Mannheim master plan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hamburg
Wallraf-Richartz Museum extension in Cologne
residential buildings in Cologne
“Die Stadt in der Stadt – Berlin: Ein grünes Archipel”
“Morphologie: City Metaphors”
occupation architect
architecture theorist
university teacher
placeOfBirth Germany
Kaisersesch
Rhineland-Palatinate
placeOfDeath Cologne
Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
positionHeld professor of architecture at Cornell University
professor of architecture at Technical University of Berlin
sexOrGender male

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Deutsches Architekturmuseum buildingRedesignedBy Oswald Mathias Ungers
Team 10 meetings hasParticipant Oswald Mathias Ungers
Oswald Mathias Ungers name Oswald Mathias Ungers