O.M. Ungers: Erste häuser - 9788891618306

O.M. Ungers: Erste häuser: The exhibition O.M. Ungers- Prime Case shows three key works in the early production of Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926-2007). These houses show - in a negative moment for the Modern movement - a new way of intending architectural form, a research through which Ungers has become one of the protagonists of the architectural debate in the following decades. This is true mostly in Italy where, in 1960, Aldo Rossi published a long article on Ungers' works in Casabella, showing a sort of Wahlverwandschaft - an affinity- between the German artist and a group of young architects close to Ernesto N. Rogers. Beyond their meaning in the debate at the beginning of the 1960s these houses show a central aspect of Ungers' work: the research - continuous for more than 50 years - on architectural form itself, that means the laws of its formation and transformation and its basic phenomena: Körper und Raum (solid and space). It is a morphological research, as Goethe would say, where the architectural form is considered as a unified whole, a Gestalt, a concept with a specific order that is able to give a complete interpretation of program and place. Die Ausstellung O.M. Ungers - Erste Häuser zeigt drei Werke, die im Frühwerk von Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926 - 2007) eine Schlüsselrolle einnehmen. Es sind äuser, die in einem Moment der Krise der Moderne die Suche nach einem neuen Verständnis der architektonischen Form reflektieren und die Ungers zu einem Protagonisten der Architekturdiskussion der folgenden Jahrzehnte machen. Dies gilt insbesondere für Italien, wo Aldo Rossi bereits 1960 einen ausfü