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ID: 500010718
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500010718
 
Record Type: Person
Ungers, Simon (German architect, 1957-2006, active in the United States)

Note: Known primarily for his designs for domestic buildings in partnership with Tom Kinslow. He was also active as an artist, creating installations with electrical light, particularly flourescent light bulbs. West German architect, Cologne, active in U.S. ca. 1981.

Names:
Ungers, Simon (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
Simon Ungers (V,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
German
West German

Roles:
artist (preferred)
architect
sculptor
installation artist
teacher

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (inhabited place)
Died:  Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
child of ....  Ungers, Oswald Matthias  
..............  (German architect and author, 1926-2007) [500003879]
related to ....  Ungers and Kiss  
..................  (American architectural firm, contemporary) [500257132]
related to ....  Ungers Kiss Zwigard  
..................  (American architectural firm, contemporary) [500280929]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Ungers, Simon (I)

Biographies:
(German architect, 1957-2006, active in the United States) ..... [VP Preferred]
(West German architect, Cologne, active in U.S. ca. 1981, 1957-) ..... [AVERY]
(American architect, born 1957) ..... [BHA]
(West German architect, 1957-2006) ..... [AVERY]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(German architect) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Simon Ungers ........ [GRISC, VP]
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Ungers, Simon ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, RKD Preferred]
............................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
............................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
............................  Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York [online] (2000-)
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 232336

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, RKD, VP]
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-) 4th suppl.
....................  Contemporary Architects (1987)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: no98110274
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Illia, Simon Ungers Dies, Architectural Record [online] (2007)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: no98110274
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York [online] (2000-)
....................  Ottagono 22/85 (1987)
....................  Ottagono, 1987 June, v.22, no.85 46
....................  Pogrebin, Oswald M. Ungers, New York Times (2007)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 232336
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q76015
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... Ottagono, 1987 June, v.22, no.85 46
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