Columbia University

Institute for Ideas & Imagination

presents

Post War Architecture in West Germany through its Ephemera
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021 | 4:00 p.m. (Paris) | 10:00 a.m. (NYC)


Vellum drawings, ca. 1951. Office of Sep Ruf. Photographed at the home of Elisabeth and Norburga Ruf, January, 2019.
Photo Credit: Thad Russell.

To kick off our 2020-2021 Fellows' talk series, Les Rendez-Vous de l'Institut, practicing architect and architectural historian Lynnette Widder will consider the way in which the documents used to realize architectural work contribute to a fuller understanding of two seminal postwar architects, Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf. Read more and register here.