Student Housing Project, Enschede, The Netherlands, Isometric
1964 · Ink on tracing paper
87 x 57 1/2" (221 x 146.1 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Mathias Ungers
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Mathias Ungers was a German architect and urban planner whose postwar practice centered on rational, modernist principles applied to housing and city planning. His designs emphasized clarity of geometric order and the relationship between building mass and urban space, engaging directly with the reconstruction imperative and theoretical debates surrounding functionalism in postwar Germany. Active from the 1950s through the early 2000s, his work articulated a disciplined approach to the built environment that prioritized legibility of form over decorative gesture.
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