1186 Casa Batllo, Barcelona Spain 1187 Crystal Palace, England
1188 Glass House, New Caanan, Connecticut 1189
1190 Sagrada Familia, Spain
1191 John Hancock Center, Chicago Illinois 1192 Woolworth Building, NY
1193 Price Tower, Oklahoma 1194 St.Basil Cathedral, Russia
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Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris France - OLDEST CATHEDRAL IN FRANCE-EARLY GOTHIC
Italian architect Member of Bauhaus
Popularized the Tubular steel cantilever chair
German-American architect, the leading and most influential exponent of the glass and steel architecture of the 20th-century International Style.
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American architect, born in Cleveland, Ohio, and educated at Harvard University in the classics and later in architecture
The architect who equated with an exhibition of modern architecture (1932) Invented the ‘International Style’
Father figure of ‘Post Modernism.’ INTERNATIONAL STYLE
Volume rather than mass.
Regularity rather than axial symmetry Prescribing arbitrarily applied decorations. WORKS:
Glass hose, Connecticut
Seagram Building, N.Y. (w/Mies Van Der Rohe) Theatre of the Dance, Lincoln Center
Williams Proctor Museum, N.Y.
Art Gallery for the University of Nebraska Ammon Corter Museum, Texas
AT&T Building N.Y.
professional name of Charles Édouard Jeanneret (1887-1965), Swiss-French architect, painter, and writer, who had a major effect on the development of modern architecture.
PHILOSOPHY:
“ The house is a machine to live in.” WORKS:
Palace of the League of Nations, Geneva (1927-1928)
The Swiss Building at the Cité Universitaire, Paris (1931-1932); Unité d'Habitation (1946-1952)
an apartment house in Marseille, France; Notre Dame du Haut (1950-1955)
a pilgrimage church in Ronchamp, France
High Court Buildings (1952-1956) Chandìgarh, India
Kahn, Louis I(sadore) (1901-1974),
American architect and teacher, whose original, powerful designs in brick and concrete won him a prominent place in 20th-century architecture.
Highly ordered sequence of space & noble structural systems. PHILOSOPHY:
“ Searching for a materials want to be.” WORKS:
Yale Art Gallery w/ Douglas Orr
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French architect, one of the most important pioneers of the modern French style. Advocator of reinforced concrete architecture.
THEORIES:
“ The truth is indispensable in architecture & every architecture lie courrupts.”
“ Any project is bad if it is more difficult or more complicated to construct the necessary.” WORKS:
The Temple Tower 1889, Exposition Universale in Paris
The Apartment Building Rue FranklinFrench Legation, Istanbul Theatre Des Champs, Lysees
- redesigning, original by Van del Velde Notre Dame Church, Paris
Palace of the League of Nations, Geneva Eiffel Monument, Paris
Palace of the Soviets, Moscow
American architect, who was a pioneer of the modern style. He is considered one of the greatest figures in 20th- century architecture.
Finnish-American architect and designer, son of Eliel Saarinen and one of the leading architects of the mid-20th century.
PHILOSOPHIES:
“ Function influences but does not dictate form.”
“Spiritual function is inseparable from practical function.”
“Architecture is not just to fulfill man’s belief in the nobility of his exsistence on earth.” WORKS:
Saint Louis Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
The General Motors Technical Center, Warren Michigan:1948-1956 Air Force Acadaemy
U.S. Embassy in London
The Chapel & Kresge Auditorium, Massachussetts Institute of Technology T.W.A. Terminal, Kennedy Terminal, N.Y.
- In a for m of bird about to fly.
T.J. Watson Research Center, York Town, N.Y. The Chapel of Concordia Senior College. Gateway Arch, St. Louis
Finnish-American architect, who strongly influenced modern architecture. Popular w/ railway station designs especially in Europe.
2nd place in the Chicago Tribune Tower PHILOSOPHY:
“ Beauty grows from the necessity not from repetition of formulas.” WORKS:
Cranbook School, Michigan Christ Church, Minneapolis Helsinki Railroad Station, Finland National Museum Finland
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Italian architect and engineer, whose technical innovations, particularly in the use of reinforced concrete, made possible aesthetically pleasing solutions to difficult structural problems.
Discovered “ferro-cemento”
- consist of layers of fine steel mesh sprayed w/ cement mortar & it could be used either for shell construction or for heavier units w/ reinforcing rods inserted between the layers of mortar & mesh.
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Municipal Stadium Florence Fiat Factory, Turin
Italian Embassy, Brazilia
Papal Audience Hall, Vatican City Australian Embassy, Paris
American architect and teacher, one of the most influential architectural theorists of the late 20th century. PHILOSOPHIES:
“ We promote an architecture responsive to the complexities and contradictions of the modern experience. The particularities of context, the varieties of the user’s taste; Culture & the symbolic & decorative dictates of the program.”
“ Less is Bore” “More is More”
“ Modern movement was almost right” WORKS:
Walker & Dunlop Office Building Transportation Square, Washington
Master Plan & Uraban Design of California City Convention Center, Conversion plan Canada West Mount Airy Clustered Housing Plan Philadelphia
Japanese architect, the most prominent modern architect of the country. In his designs for public buildings, has reconciled 20th-century Western styles and materials with traditional Japanese forms.
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Anti realist attitude, anti action element in the Japanese life. PHILOSOPHIES:
“ Modern Architecture need not be Western.”
“ The city must be subjected to growth, decay and renewal.”
House of Michealerplatz, Vienna Sanatorio di Paimo, Finland Notre Dame du Raincy, France Sagrada de Familia
US Capitol, Washington DC Glasgow School of Art
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Helsinki Railway Station Los Manantiales, Mexico Jay Pritzker Pavilion, USA Taliesin West, Arizona Munich Olympic Stadium Tokyo, Japan
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Bank of China, Hong Kong Sydney Opera House Chrystal Palace Fuji TV Headquarters Auditorium Building, Chicago Salk Institute, California Unite d’ Habitacion, France Catedral de Brasilia Seagram Building
Portland Building, Oregon Habitat 67, Montreal London City Hall At & T Building, NY
Lippo Building , Hong Kong Red House, England
Max Reinhardt House, Germany Turin Exhibition Hall
Tjibao Cultural Center, New Caledonia Jubilee Church, Rome
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