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Record Nr.

UNISA996445849003316

Autore

Schrijver Lara

Titolo

Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas : Recalibrating Architecture in the 1970s / / Lara Schrijver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-8394-5759-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

Architekturen ; ; 63

Soggetti

ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Architecture and Disciplinary Crises -- Chapter 1. The 1970s: Reclaiming Autonomy for the Fait Social -- Chapter 2. From Delirium to Archipelago, the Postmodern Collective in the City -- Chapter 3. The House: Crystallized Architecture Thinking -- Chapter 4. Elements, Rules and Conventions: Architecture as Material Knowledge -- Epilogue: Recalibrating the Profession -- Sources -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

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.