BLOOBERG.com By Catherine Hickley Oct. 4, 2007

The architect Oswald Mathias Ungers, who built museums in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne and Berlin as well as the Washington residence of the German ambassador, has died. He was 81.

Ungers died on Sept. 30 of a lung infection, his office in Cologne said today. Considered one of Germany’s most influential postwar architects, he won a 2000 competition to restore the Pergamon, the biggest of the five museums on Berlin’s war-damaged Museum Island, by 2010. The complex to house the city’s archaeological collections is due to be completed in 2015.

Other buildings by Ungers include Cologne’s Wallraf Richartz Museum, an annex for contemporary art at Hamburg’s Kunsthalle, the German Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt and libraries in Karlsruhe and Cologne. Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie last year held an exhibition in his honor.

An avid collector of art, books and architectural models, Ungers wrote several volumes on architectural theory.

After opening architectural bureaus in Cologne and Berlin in the 1950s, he combined practice with teaching to work as a professor of architecture — in Berlin and Dusseldorf in Germany, and at Cornell University, the University of California and Harvard University in the U.S

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