Dieter Leistner

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 gai...

This private house with office is abviously a built manifesto demonstrating precise agreement between internal and external geometry and eliminating the antihesis between elevation and ground plan.