Die Freie Universitaet Berlin (1967-1973): Hochschulbau, Team X- Ideale und tektonische Phantasie/ The Free University Berlin (1967-1973): Campus Design, Team X Ideals and Tectonic Invention

摘要

Few building types better epitomized the tensions between a newly institutionalized modern architecture's social, technological, and aesthetic goals than the university. Latin America, largely unaffected by World War Ⅱ, seized the lead with the new campuses of the National University of Columbia, begun in 1937, the Central University of Venezuela, begun in 1944, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, completed in 1954. These collections of avant-garde buildings encapsulated the region's hopes for substantial social and technological progress; the last two are now UNESCO World Heritage Sites. By the sixties, the new universities that were being founded and older ones that were being expanded around the world presented American and European architects with magnificent opportunities to re-imagine community on a nearly urban scale. Yet, as Stefan Muthesius demonstrated in a study of the postwar university that focused largely on British examples, the results seldom accomplished the desired end.