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Ungers House I, Cologne
Belvederestr. 60 / Quadratherstr. 2
1958, 1989 - 1990
This building is the first house Oswald Mathias Ungers designed and constructed for himself. Located on Belvederestrasse
in Cologne-Müngersdorf, it was described as "manifesto" by Reyner Banham. The house was finished in 1959 and subsquently
remodeled on several occasions. The addition of a sophisticated library structure in 1990 is considered to be the most important change.
The building represents the cultural climate of the 1950, subsquently the architectural values reached a point of crisis, which is shown
in the history of the CIAM. The building is arranged like a city or an ancient villa - it is like an articulated structure of spatial units and
building parts. Today this building houses the Ungers Archive which was founded in 1990 by Oswald Mathias Ungers and his wife Liselotte.
in Cologne-Müngersdorf, it was described as "manifesto" by Reyner Banham. The house was finished in 1959 and subsquently
remodeled on several occasions. The addition of a sophisticated library structure in 1990 is considered to be the most important change.
The building represents the cultural climate of the 1950, subsquently the architectural values reached a point of crisis, which is shown
in the history of the CIAM. The building is arranged like a city or an ancient villa - it is like an articulated structure of spatial units and
building parts. Today this building houses the Ungers Archive which was founded in 1990 by Oswald Mathias Ungers and his wife Liselotte.