What follows are four plates from architect O.M. Ungers’ City Metaphors which were included in a larger exhibit on view in 1976 at the Cooper-Hewitt called MAN transFORMS. It was the kick-off show of the institutions’ rebirth as the Smithsonian Institution’s Nation Museum of Design. I’m lucky enough to have procured the exhibition catalog, which is just chock full of goodies, and the tiny taste which follows are taken from it’s pages.
an organism: bone structure.
a city: street structure.
a mechanism: frame structure.
an organism: digestive system.
a city: sewer system.
a mechanism: exhaust system.
an organism: circulatory system.
a city: subway system.
a mechanism: fluid system.
an organism: nervous system.
a city: power system.
a mechanism: electro system.
More to come…
