Islands, Blocks and Icons. Three Different Scales of Urban Design.

Ungers' research has developed over the decades of his career as an architect, theorist and university lecturer consistently on the relationship between architecture and the city, addressing different scales of intervention. Beginning with the project of the City within the City understood as an archipelago of urban islands, to the definition of an idea of the city made up of icons taken from the recent history of the European Modern, to the notion of Blockmorphologie developed during the critical reconstruction of Berlin and realized in some blocks of the Friedrichstadt in the late 1990s, Ungers reveals an abiding interest in the urban dimension of architectural design.