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Simon Ungers
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This is the first monograph study of the German-born architect Simon Ungers (Cologne, 1957), who now lives and works in New York City. Simon Ungers' work can be divided into commissions, competitions and installations. The book brings together examples of all three categories, these ranging from built work such as the T-House in upstate New York to the(...)
Simon Ungers
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This is the first monograph study of the German-born architect Simon Ungers (Cologne, 1957), who now lives and works in New York City. Simon Ungers' work can be divided into commissions, competitions and installations. The book brings together examples of all three categories, these ranging from built work such as the T-House in upstate New York to the latest schemes for international competitions, as well as a series of installations and sculptures shown in art galleries.
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Architecture Monographs
Morphologie: city metaphors
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First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers' ''City metaphors'' juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of flora and fauna and other images from science and nature. Ungers assigns each a title- a single descriptive word printed in both English and German. In Ungers' vision, the divisions of Venice are transformed into(...)
Morphologie: city metaphors
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First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers' ''City metaphors'' juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of flora and fauna and other images from science and nature. Ungers assigns each a title- a single descriptive word printed in both English and German. In Ungers' vision, the divisions of Venice are transformed into a handshake and the 1809 plan of St Gallen becomes a womb. Ungers writes in his foreword, “Without a comprehensive vision reality will appear as a mass of unrelated phenomenon and meaningless facts, in other words, totally chaotic. In such a world it would be like living in a vacuum; everything would be of equal importance; nothing could attract our attention; and there would be no possibility to utilize the mind.” A classic of creative cartography and visual thinking, ''City metaphors'' is also an experiment in conscious vision-building.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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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(...)
Negotiating Ungers: the aesthetics of sustainability
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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.
Architecture Monographs
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Nothing about how we live today is sustainable. Therefore, a profound paradigm shift is imminent (indeed is already underway). To paraphrase Marx and Engels, all that is solid has melted into air, all that was sacred has been profaned, and humanity is compelled to face with sober senses the real conditions of life, our relations with each other and this planet. First(...)
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August 2022
Kommunen in der neuen welt: Utopian communes in the new world 1740-1972
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Nothing about how we live today is sustainable. Therefore, a profound paradigm shift is imminent (indeed is already underway). To paraphrase Marx and Engels, all that is solid has melted into air, all that was sacred has been profaned, and humanity is compelled to face with sober senses the real conditions of life, our relations with each other and this planet. First published nearly fifty years ago, this text handles its subject matter with precision and brevity; it is an excellent introduction to the fantastical reality of utopian life in the "New World".
Architectural Theory
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Oswald Mathias Ungers eine intellektuelle biographie
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Architecture Monographs
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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(...)
Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas : Recalibrating Architecture in the 1970s
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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.
Architectural Theory
Theory of type design
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''Theory of Type Design'', by internationally renowned Dutch graphic designer and typographer Gerard Unger (born 1942), is a complete and accessible theory of the field of typography.
Theory of type design
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''Theory of Type Design'', by internationally renowned Dutch graphic designer and typographer Gerard Unger (born 1942), is a complete and accessible theory of the field of typography.
Graphic Design and Typography
Tomi Ungerer: Rufus
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Rufus est une chauve-souris pas comme les autres. Depuis qu’il a vu, un soir, un film en Technicolor au cinéma en plein air, puis, au petit matin, le lever du soleil orange et rose, il a décidé de changer d’existence. Vivre le jour, peindre ses ailes noires aux couleurs des papillons ! Pris de peur en voyant tourbillonner ce volatile bizarre, des gens lui tirent dessus à(...)
Tomi Ungerer: Rufus
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Rufus est une chauve-souris pas comme les autres. Depuis qu’il a vu, un soir, un film en Technicolor au cinéma en plein air, puis, au petit matin, le lever du soleil orange et rose, il a décidé de changer d’existence. Vivre le jour, peindre ses ailes noires aux couleurs des papillons ! Pris de peur en voyant tourbillonner ce volatile bizarre, des gens lui tirent dessus à coups de fusil. Rufus tombe, mais, par chance, c’est dans le jardin d’un homme formidable… C’est dans les années soixante que Tomi Ungerer entreprend, à NewYork, une série d’albums en l’honneur des animaux jusque-là mal aimés ou carrément absents des livres pour les enfants : un boa constrictor, Crictor ; une pieuvre, Émile ; un vautour, Orlando ; un kangourou, Adélaïde ; et une chauve-souris, Rufus, que voici, pour la première fois en français. Ils font mentir leur réputation, incarnent le bien, sauvent des vies, se révèlent plus humains que les humains qui les avaient d’abord rejetés. Originalement publié en 1961
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Il était une fois trois vilains brigands... dont la vie changea totalement le jour où ils rencontrèrent Tiffany, la petite orpheline. De trois méchants elle en fit ...des bienfaiteurs de l'humanité. Originalement publié en 1968
Tomi Ungerer: Les trois brigands
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Il était une fois trois vilains brigands... dont la vie changea totalement le jour où ils rencontrèrent Tiffany, la petite orpheline. De trois méchants elle en fit ...des bienfaiteurs de l'humanité. Originalement publié en 1968
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Tomi Ungerer, illustrator of Jeff Brown's original Flat Stanley and winner of the prestigious 1998 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award, paints the man in the moon as a benevolent, soft-bodied man who curls up in "his shimmering seat in space." Most evenings, he looks over longingly at the happy, dancing earth people, until one night when he can't resist catching the(...)
Moon man
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Tomi Ungerer, illustrator of Jeff Brown's original Flat Stanley and winner of the prestigious 1998 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award, paints the man in the moon as a benevolent, soft-bodied man who curls up in "his shimmering seat in space." Most evenings, he looks over longingly at the happy, dancing earth people, until one night when he can't resist catching the fiery tail of a comet and hitching a ride to Earth. Ungerer, ever satirical, reports the resulting frenzy of authorities upon hearing the crash landing: "The noise brought hundreds of people from a nearby town. Soldiers sped to defend the earth. Firemen hastened to quench the flaming light. The ice cream man hurried to set up his stand for the spectators." Of course, when the crowd discovers the unidentified fallen object, "statesmen, scientists, and generals panicked." Moon Man is thrown in jail, facing criminal investigation! How will he ever return to his lunar dwelling? Kids will love this quirky "there's no place like home" tale, and Ungerer's gentle, funny mocking of "important people" won't be lost on anyone. (Ages 4 to 8)
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