Publisher： Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN： 1469-8706|37|2|272-288
ISSN： 0963-9268
Source： Urban History, Vol.37, Iss.2, 2010-08, pp. : 272-288
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Abstract
This article focuses on Otl Aicher's design and Günther Grzimek's garden architecture for the 1972 Munich Olympics. We argue that the functionalist aesthetics of the Munich Olympic site should be interpreted as a translation into graphic and landscape design of 1960s progressivism in West German society and democracy. In the process Aicher and Grzimek somewhat paradoxically drew on the tradition of the Olympic
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