Negotiating Ungers 2: The Oberhausen Institute and the Materiality of the Social Klas Ernflo Ayos Purwoaji

Ayos Purwoaji

A large part of the publication features fighter jets

ISBN 978-3-907179-58-1

all the while echoing with the raw imperfections of a hands-on studio practice

This extensive overview of the architect’s built works from 2002 to 2016 features many notable projects: La Gavia Park in Madrid

Negotiating Ungers 2: The Oberhausen Institute and the Materiality of the Social Klas Ernflo Ayos PurwoajiThe Oberhausen Institut zur Erlangung der Hochschulreife realised by Oswald Mathias Ungers between 1953 and 1959 is a project that leads to the centre of the architectural debate of the 1950s in Germany. His design for a school building followed emancipatory ideas; the spatial arrangement and the material aesthetics were conceived in close dialogue with the desired social processes and structures. This publication centres around the building, its in