Nahtlose Übergänge: Fotografie und Architektur im Dialog. Seamless Transitions: Photography and Architecture in Dialogue Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture Jesús Vassallo (mit einem Vorwort / with a foreword by Juan Herreros)
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Investigating the genesis of Ungers’ urban planning projects means also to investigate his connection to members of Team 10, with whom Ungers collaborated from 1964 onwards. This text will carve out correlations between Grünzug Süd and projects conceived by Alison and Peter Smithson at the same time, thereby shedding light on urban planning concepts which are still relevant today. The projects are not only case studies for the interplay between architecture and urban planning in the development of new and existing city quarters, but also for a thorough analysis – and thus understanding – of the urban environment, meaning the built and unbuilt condition of an urban context planners engage with.
in a regular dialogue with members of Team 10 and notably with the archi-
tect Shadrach Woods. The investigation of the intellectual affinity of these
formative figures of post-war modernism provides new insights into Ungers’
work as well as a different perspective on the topics discussed in the archi-
tectural avant-garde of the time, whose projects are once again referenced as
historical models in the design work of contemporary architectural offices.
The exchange with Woods shapes Ungers’ understanding of architecture
and urban planning and manifests itself in the theoretical and design work on
the concept of Grossform. Formulated in the mid-1960s, the idea of Gross-
form appears at first glance to be a sideline of Ungers’ oeuvre. However, the
analysis of his texts about Grossform and the investigation of Ungers’ influ-
ences to which he was exposed at the time of their writing, shed light on con-
cepts which are relevant to Ungers’s work up to the 1980s. This essay wants
to show that the idea of Grossform is a multi-layered design tool: on the one
hand the principles of “form” and “structure”— seemingly incompatible, di-
ametrically opposed architectural themes—converge within Grossform, on
the other hand the idea of Grossform translates concepts from Gestalt The-
ory into architecture.