On the inferiority complex of German architecture
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Patrick Zamariàn's master's thesis at the gta institute at ETH Zurich is dedicated to a "Pamphlet against the inferiority complex in German architecture" published in the journal Der Baumeister in 1987. The appeal, written by the prominent German architects Oswald Mathias Ungers and Meinhard von Gerkan, met with a great...
Patrick Zamariàn's master's thesis at the gta institute at ETH Zurich is dedicated to a "Pamphlet against the inferiority complex in German architecture" published in the journal Der Baumeister in 1987. The appeal, written by the prominent German architects Oswald Mathias Ungers and Meinhard von Gerkan, met with a great response - albeit briefly - and was discussed extremely controversially in the professional world. The present work is dedicated to this forgotten debate in order to provide a more differentiated picture of West German architecture and its positions shortly before the fall of the Wall. In the first part of the work, the author reconstructs the debate itself. In the second part, he analyzes competition in Germany and thus questions the relevance of the pamphlet. The third part of the work places the controversy in its temporal context between the International Building Exhibition IBA and the competition for the German Historical Museum. Based on statements by contemporary architects and theorists, the author underpins the justification of the pamphlet and embeds the controversy in the modern/postmodern discussion of the time.
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- Title: On the inferiority complex of German architecture
- Subtitle: Causes of a controversy
- Author: Patrick Zamariàn
- Edition: 1st edition
- University: ETH Zurich
- Published: 1st edition 25.11.2010
- Subject: Architecture & Civil Engineering
- Product Type: Book (Hardcover)
- Product type: state examination paper
- Language: German
- Binding: Softcover (paperback)
- Dimensions: 21.0 x 14.8 cm (DIN A5)
- Scope: II / 108 pages
- Condition: New (shrink-wrapped in foil)
- Keywords: architecture, history of architecture, theory of architecture, master builders, Berlin, German building culture, German Historical Museum, ETH, Gerkan, gmp, IBA, international building exhibition, Jencks, museum boom, post-war architecture, post-war modernism, Oechslin, pamphlet, Peters, postmodernism, state gallery , Ungers
Author
Patrick Zamariàn (*1973): Studied architecture at ETH Zurich (MSc ETH Arch; 2000), studied history and theory of architecture at ETH Zurich (MAS ETH Arch/HTA; 2009). Zamariàn lives as a freelance architecture critic in Switzerland and England.
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