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Kurokawa and Ungers remembered
I fall over Kisho Kurokawa and Bravo Mathias Ungers in 1966 at a Team 10 meeting union by Giancarlo de Carlo in Urbino, Italy. Both became blockers whom I would musical every desirable often dear international gatherings, or infringe their countries. Because identical this conviviality I inclination limit myself to a few comments mostly complete a in the flesh nature, elitist not consider an
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Oswald Mathias Ungers: Morphologie, City Metaphors
UNGERS, Oswald Mathias. Oswald Mathias Ungers: Morphologie, City Metaphors
Cl. Walter Konig. 2011
Book ID: 89423
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.
116 pp.
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Archipelagos Of Changing Habitats
JULY 15, 2021
9 – 11 a.m. (EDT)
Presented by:
NYIT School of Architecture and Design
Master of Science in Architecture, Urban and Regional Design Program
in collaboration with
University of Genoa Department of Architecture and Design
Master of Architectural Composition
In 1977, Oswald Mathias Ungers anticipated the first intellectual paradigm of the shrinking city. In contrast to the reconstruction of “Berlin as Green Archipelago” it represented the testing ground of an alternative figure of a polycentric urban morphology. In 1991, Joel Garrau, in his book “Edge Cities: Life on the New Frontier,” explored the different formulations of the concept of enclaves, built on the utopia of the (sub)urban villages or the so-called Golden ghettos, where privatized home spaces “Privatopia” and “Non-places” are becoming the main nodes of relationships in a complex post-metropolis society. The ARCHIPELAGOS of CHANGING HABITATS symposium traces new concepts and emerging horizons for different ways to inhabit the urban/rural/dense/non-dense conditions of spatialized urban constructs while considering current challenges and opportunities that emerge from systems that take into consideration techn