Actualité de la recherche: Decontaminating architecture. The work of O.M.Ungers in Frankfurt

17.04.2019 12:15 – 13:45

German architect and theoretician O.M.Ungers (1926-2007) sought to purge architecture from its contamination by external forces. The discourse of formal autonomy cannot be separated from the audiences that Ungers catered to – especially given the insertion of these audiences into the field of cultural production of the postmodern city. One such case, Frankfurt during the 1980s, will be presented in this lecture. While asserting its role as Germany’s financial center, Frankfurt invested heavily in Kulturpolitik, notably in the creation of new museums, but also in the expansion of its fairgrounds. We see Ungers, a former architect of mass housing, gravitate from the periphery to the urban center with highly visible civic commissions such as the Galleria fairground extension and Deutsches Architekturmuseum. The museum’s interior was organized around a series of abstract ‚themes’, thus becoming a showcase for the theorization with which Ungers infused his work.

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Bâtiment: Uni Bastions

B214

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