Negotiating Ungers 2 - The Oberhausen Institute and the Materiality of the Social interviews Joan Thiele

Joan Thiele

the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared

as well as personal archives from Aubrey Beardsley’s The Yellow Book (1894-97) and the defunct queer magazine After Dark from the 1960s

Conceived as a catalogue raisonné of nearly 500 lights

and everyday folk—Hugh Hefner

Negotiating Ungers 2 - The Oberhausen Institute and the Materiality of the Social interviews Joan ThieleThe 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