Simon Ungers
Simon Ungers (8 May 1957 – 6 March 2006) was a German architect and artist.
Simon Ungers was born in 1957 in Cologne,[1] the son of the architect Oswald Mathias Ungers and Liselotte Gabler.[2] In 1969, his family moved to the United States.[3] From 1975 to 1980, he studied architecture at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.[4]
Ungers worked in New York and Cologne.[3] He gained attention together with Tom Kinslow for the construction of T-House, a home made of Cor-ten in Wilton, New York.[5] He also designed the Cube House in Ithaca, New York.[4]
In 1995, he was one of two first-prize winners in a competition to design the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, but in a tie-breaker vote his design was not selected. Later neither of the two winning designs was chosen, but a new competition was held.
Ungers taught at Harvard University, Syracuse University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,[3] Cornell University and University of Maryland, College Park.
Ungers died after a long illness in Hürth, Germany on 6 March 2006 at the age of 48.[3] He is survived by his wife Janet O'Hair.[3][5]
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- 1957 births
- 2006 deaths
- Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning alumni
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- 20th-century German architects
- Emigrants from West Germany to the United States
- Harvard University faculty
- University of Maryland, College Park faculty