Oswald Matthias Ungers, Haus Belvederestra e 60, K ln-M ngersdorf

For the Cologne architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926-2007), owner of a famous collection of books on architecture, who also repeatedly addressed the theoretical aspects of building, the construction of his own house, in 1958/59, was more than a private adventure. For him it meant a chance to gain spatial experience and explore what was possible. It was a laboratory, "a little universe", "a piece of world". Three decades later, Ungers expanded the cataract of forms of his first home by addi...