Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1968: Housing and Urban Development Act 1968: May Riots in Paris
and New Communities Act 1968: Alison and Peter Smithson, Garden building, St. 1968: OMU, Publications in Architecture no. 12, 1516, 1819,
1968: Michael Graves, Hanselmann House, Hildas College, Oxford 2122, TU Berlin: topics on housing, monorail systems, steel
Fort Wayne, IN fabrication, traffic volume, Ithaca, NY, prefab housing, etc.
1968: Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
196869: Charles Gwathmey, Cooper Residence,
Orleans, MA 1968: Rem Koolhaas attends Architectural Association,
196874: Aldo Rossi with Carlo Aymonino, London
Gallaratese Quarter II, Milan
1969: CR with Werner Seligmann and Jerry Wells, Buffalo 196972: James Stirling, Olivetti Training School, 1969: Fritz Zwicky, Discovery, Invention, Research
Waterfront Project exhibition at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Haslemere through the Morphological Approach
Buffalo, NY, Cornell Urban Design Studio project of 196566
1969: Peter Eisenman, House II, Hardwick 1969: Earth Art exhibition, Andrew Dickson White
1969: Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles, Boston City Hall Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1969: James Stirling with Leon Krier, Competition for 1969: Reyner Banham, The Architecture of the
Siemens AG, Munich Well-Tempered Environment
1969: CR in Rome
1970: James Stirling with Leon Krier, Derby 1970: Archizoom Associati, No-Stop City
Town Center, Derby
1970: Manfredo Tafuri, Teorie e storia dellaarchitettura Urban design and planning projects associated with
(Theories and History of Architecture), translated in 1980 federal and state agencies is progressed through Urban
Design Studios of both CR and OMU as a means of
research into an alternative model of urban design and
planning relative to the more popular townscape notions
of city planning and preservation. [8]
1971: CR and Robert Slutzky, Transparency: Literal and 1971: Aldo Rossi, Cemetary of San Cataldo, Modena 1971: Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of 197172: OMU organizes Team 10 Seminar at Cornell.
Phenomenal (Part 2), Perspecta 13/14 Four Ecologies Participants include Jaap Bakema, Charles Polnyi, Reima
197173: Charles Gwathmey, Elia-Bash House, Pietil, Peter Smithson, Shadrach Woods; From an unofficial
Califon, NJ 1971: Superstudio, The Continuous Monument,
Natural and Artificial Deserts, Casabella letter from CR to OMU, undated but estimated to be
197176: Richard Meier, Douglas House, sometime in 197273. For all my disagreements with your
Harbor Springs, MI 1971: Superstudio, Twelve Cautionary Tales for present propensities, policies and procedures I cannot but
Christmas: Premonitions of the Mystical Rebirth of agree with Werner that your superiority to that little
Urbanism, AD, December collection just does not need to be proclaimed; . . . Your
1972: Rem Koolhaas, Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners attitude as of 1965 seemed to me (and still does seem) to be
of Architecture, Architectural Association Thesis, ahead of anything that Team X has come up with or could
London ever understand . . . [9]
1972: CR, Introduction to Five Architects: Eisenman, Graves. 1972: Michael Graves, Snyderman House, 1972-73: Rem Koolhaas at Cornell 1971: OMU, Bonn Competition
Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier; Although seemingly positive of a Fort Wayne, IN 1972: Minoru Yamasaki, World Trade Center Twin 1971: OMU, Architectural Education USA: Issues, Ideas and
new direction of architecture in North America that is 1972: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Towers complete People, Conference at MoMA, New York
devoid of the political and social baggage of its European Learning from Las Vegas
counterparts, such as that of the Team 10, CR is skeptical of 1972-73: Superstudio, Five Fundamental Acts: Life, 1972: OMU, Competition for the Blauer See Housing
197275: Peter Eisenman, House VI, Cornwall CT Education, Ceremony, Love and Death, Casabella Complex, Rsselsheim
the dangers of a European modernist style purged of
ideological content being established as a suitable veneer 1973: OMU visiting professor at Harvard University
for the corporate activities of enlightened capitalism 1973: OMU with Koolhaas and Allison, Competition for the
irrespective of its availability as a consistent language. [10] 197382: Peter Eisenman establish Oppositions 1973: Candilis Josic Woods Schiedhelm, Free University, Landwehrkanal-Tiergarten Viertel, Berlin
Berlin
1973: CR, Neo-Classicism and Modern Architecture I & 1973: Alison and Peter Smithson, Without Rhetoric
II, Oppositions 1, written in 195657 197475: OMU teaches at UCLA
1974: CR, Architectural Education USA, Conference at MoMA, 1974: Manfredo Tafuri, LArchitecture dans le Boudoir, 1974: OMU, A Subjective Study of the L.A. Freeway Grid, On
New York Oppositions 3 Site On Energy 5/6: UCLA student projects
1974: CR, Character and Composition: or Some Vicissitudes 1974: Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker
of Architectural Vocabulary in the Nineteenth Century, 1974: Housing and Urban Community Act
Oppositions 2, written in 195354
UNGERS
1975: OMU, with Clark, Dietzsch, Ovaska, Competition for
1975: Rem Koolhaas teaches at UCLA Roosevelt Island, New York
1975: Rem Koolhaas teaches at the Institute of 1975: Rem Koolhaas, Madelon Vriesendorp, and Elia
Architecture and Urban Studies, New York and Zoe Zenghelis form OMA, London
1975: Rem Koolhaas teaches at the Architectural 197576: OMA, New Welfare Island Project, Roosevelt
1976: CR with Judith DiMaio for the IAUS, The River: Images of Association, London Island, New York
the Mississippi exhibition, a proposal for Nicollet Island, 19752000: John Hejduk, Dean at Cooper Union
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The planning accommodates School of Art and Architecture
an idiosyncratic mix of pedestrian resort, spectacular urban Manhattan is reproduced as a miniature copy for the
1975: Peter Eisenman, House X, Bloomfield Hills, MI
garden, etc. to produce an archtypal image, that stresses not Welfare Island. An existing prototype is transformed
so much matter of fact but rather a magical (and extravagant) morphologically to mirror its Other symbolically,
profusion of reminiscence. The urban islands signified a allusively, and allegorically. [11]
dialectical existence with the city itself, through
morphological and programmatic mimicry that produced an
archtypal image symbolically and allegorically. The previous
figure/ground and Gestalt based compositional analysis gives
way to fragmented historical prototypes to negotiate the
flexible culmination of historical prototypes. [12]
1976: Charles Gwathmey, Charof House, Montauk, NY 1976: Aldo Rossi teaches at Cornell
1976: Aldo Rossi, one-man exhibition at Institute for 1976: Reyner Banham, Megastructure: Urban Futures of
Architecture and Urban Studies, New York the Recent Past; references to TU Berlin student
projects under OMU
1976: Manfredo Tafuri, Architecture and Utopia: Design
and Capitalist Development
1976: Journal October founded by Rosalind Krauss and The Gotham City explores the fundamental process of 1976: OMU, Werner Goehner, Hans F. Kollhoff, and Arthur A.
Annette Michelson conceptualizing unrelated, diverse realities through the Ovaska, The Urban Block and Gotham City: Metaphors &
use of images, metaphor, analogies, models, signs, Metamorphosis: Two Concurrent Projects, Cornell Summer
symbols, and allegories. The historical investigations into Session in Ithaca, NY
typology produces a series of formal opportunities that is
independent of time, size, and geographical location and
only categorized through formal classifications. Research
and analysis of type becomes a strategy of synthetic
formal production [13].
1976: CR, Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays 1976: OMU, Man Transforms exhibition at the
1976: CR, Robert Venturi and the Yale Mathematics Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York
Building Competition, Oppositions 6 1976: OMU, Project for a Group of Houses, Marburg
197778: CR in Rome 1977: OMU, Hans F. Kollhoff, and Arthur A. Ovaska, The Urban
1977: Charles Jencks, The Language of Post Modern
Architecture Villa: A Multi-Family Dwelling Type, Cornell Summer Academy
77 in Berlin: Seminar, lecture series participants included
197783: James Stirling, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart Ken Frampton, Bob Stern, Raimond Abraham, Richard Meier,
1977: Jorge Silvetti, The Beauty of Shadows, Charles Moore, Peter Eisenman, Philip Johnson, Rem
Oppositions 9 Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi, Vittorio Gregotti, Alison and Peter
Smithson, Hans Hollein, Robert Krier, Carlo Aymonino,
1978: CR with Peter Carl, Judith DiMaio, and Steven Peterson, Massimo Scolari, James Stirling
Roma Interrota: Nolli Sector exhibition, Mercato di Traiano,
Rome, participants included Piero Sartogo, Costantino Dardi, The issue of the shrinking city is addressed through the
Antoine Grumbach, James Stirling, Paolo Portoghesi, proposal of a new typology of housing that integrates
Romaldo Giurgola, Robert Venturi, Michael Graves, Robert urban and country typologies. Palladian compositional
Krier, Aldo Rossi, Leon Krier analysis, Corbusian allegorical symbolism, and Structuralist
semiotics are utilized as one of many morphological tools
The strategies of the cumulative city from Collage City to expand typological transformations. This is analogical
and Hadrians Villa are expaned further and utilized to to the analytical mechanism of CR in the Mathematics of
envision a cohesive city of the old and the new. The the Ideal Villa where two previously disassociative
fictional narrative of the proposal is in parallel to that of historical precedents were brought together to formulate
the Gotham City and its allegorical, morphological a dialectic structure [14].
transformations within the logic and boundaries of the
traditional fabric of the city. [15]