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

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Brussels : Common Room, [2020]

Description:

112, 124 pages : illustrations, plans ; 17 cm

Notes:
Title from covers; statement of responsibility from colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.

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?

ISBN:

9780988290624
0988290626

Subject:

Ungers, O. M. (Oswald Mathias) Criticism and interpretation.
Ungers, O. M. (Oswald Mathias)
Architecture Germany.
Architecture and solar radiation.
Sustainable architecture.
Architecture Allemagne.
Architecture et rayonnement solaire.
Architecture durable.
Architecture.
Germany.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Escher, Cornelia, 1981- editor.
Fischer, Lars, 1971- editor.
Ungers, O. M. (Oswald Mathias). Works. Selections.

Aesthetics of sustainability : the solar house

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316845
Call No.: 316845
Status: Available

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