Material Use in Architecture as Seen in the Works of Fernand Pouillon and O.M. Ungers Part 2 Dissertation 2020 Awut Atak Kingston University Kingston | UK Every architect has their own unique relationship to material. This dissertation seeks to reflect on the relationship to material of two seminal twentieth-century architects, Fernand Pouillon and Oswald Mathias Ungers. They both looked to the past to create an ‘other’ way in mid-twentieth century modernism. Whilst the former romanticised material and associated analogical meaning in its extraction and tectonic use in architecture, the latter did not place as much importance on the material or construction process of his projects, but instead on the theoretical ‘Idea’ behind the architecture and its subsequent realisation. This schism in relationship to material is used to reflect on the materialism of architecture today. Chapter I looks at Pouillon’s Vieux Port Scheme (1949-53) and Chapter II at Ungers’ Haus ohne Eigenschaften (1994-6). Chapter III concludes with reflection on both architects and thoughts on the discipline of architecture. Tutor(s) Laura Evans