Abstract

architecture

Dialogue with Oswald Mathias Ungers

With the construction of the small „Guest house“ in cologne, we have repeated

the experiment that O. M. Ungers applied to his „House without attributes“

12 years before in a rigorous and uncompromising manner. It concerns an

autonomous architecture that is self-reflecting, concentrating only upon the

essential, the absolute necessary. The Guest House was originally designed by

OMU in 1994.

For the outer facade we stringently followed his design, for the inside we realised

our own design. The abstraction of the outside follows scale and measure, the

inside that of colour and form.