Student Housing Project, Enschede, The Netherlands, Isometric

Mathias Ungers was a German architect and urban planner whose postwar practice centered on rational, modernist principles applied to housing and city planning. Active from the 1950s through the 2000s, his work engaged with the reconstruction imperative of postwar Germany and the theoretical debates surrounding functionalism and architectural form. His designs emphasized clarity of geometric order and the relationship between building mass and urban space.