Author(s): Martin H盲ttasch
Grossformen im Wohnungsbau is the title of an unassuming pamphletthat German architect O.M. Ungers published in 1966 as part of theVer枚ffentlichungen zur Architektur series (VzA #5) during his tenure at theTU Berlin in the 1960鈥檚.1 In it Ungers reimagines the singular architecturalintervention at a scale between architecture and urbanism as a counter measureto the rapid urbanization brought about by Europe鈥檚 postwar boom. The formalcoherence of Grossform (literally meaning 鈥渓arge form鈥 in German) could provide a framework within which the unplannable processes of the contemporarycity could play out, while acting as stable markers of identity in an expanding urban field ofincreasing sameness and formlessness.
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