In 1972, the games became a turbocharger for Munich’s urban development. Also because there was not enough time for planning the tried and tested, there were so many innovations in the Olympic architecture. This is how spaces were created that still point to the future today.
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Gerhard Matzig
Ludwig Wappner may not have slept his way through the beds in the almost venerable Olympic Village, which is now half a century old, that would be several thousand, but the now 64-year-old architect knows four different types of accommodation from his own experience. Wappner, who came to Munich from Lower Franconia as a young student in 1982, first lived in a student house, then in a towering terrace house, finally in a maisonette apartment with a garden – and today, after 40 years of living in the Olympic Village, he lives in one of the coveted atrium bungalows.