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Fallingwater
Frank Lloyd Wright
Bold cantilevered concrete elements hanging over creek and water fall
use of stone from site as strong verticals, supporting the floating concrete
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Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright
Site stone embedded in concrete; thick battered walls for thermal mass
Organic Architecture |
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Ford House
Bruce Goff
quonset ribs, cut 2/3
quonset ribs
stone wall with imbedded glass chunks
Organic Architecture |
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Bavinger House
Bruce Goff
Plans
Spiraling structural wall based upon Nautilus
Roof hung from central spire
Organic Architecture |
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joe price house
bart prince
front lump covered in undulating layers of cedar shingles
Organic Architecture |
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Elrod house
john lautner
built into rocky outcropping
dissolution of wall under a dramatic roof
existing rocks remain as interior/exterior elements
Organic architecture |
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Platt residence
will bruder
Organic Architecture |
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Tubac House
Rick Joy
Organic Architecture |
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bright and associates
frank israel
tectonic baroque |
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dan house
frank israel
tectonic baroque |
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goldberg-bean residence
frank israel
many forms and materials linked along a spine
baroque tectonic |
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gary group
eric owen moss
layered and repetitive expression of mundane elements
baroque tectonic |
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3535 hayden
eric owen moss
overly layered and repetitive expression of original bow-string trusses of old warehouse
baroque tectonic |
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stealth building
eric owen moss
baroque tectonic |
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lawson-weston house
eric owen moss
baroque tectonic |
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venice III house
morphosis thom mayne and michael rotondi
baroque tectonic |
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kate mantilini restaurant
morphosis
baroque tectonic |
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diamond ranch high school
morphosis
baroque tectonic |
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carlson reges residence
roto
baroque tectonic |
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parc la villette
bernard tschumi
lines, points, and planes as independent systems
deconstructivism |
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wexner center for visual arts
peter eisenman
traces of university grid, city grid, flight paths of airport, old armory that burned down, fault line of state survey.
simulation of fragments of the old armory, subverted by the other geometric systems
deconstructivism |
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aronoff center for design and art
peter eisenman
deconstructivism |
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vitra fire station
zaha hadid
deconstructivism |
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city edge
daniel libeskind
deconstructivism |
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jewish museum berlin
daniel libeskind
zig zag of history cut across by the void of the holocaust
poured in place concrete structural walls with zinc cladding
deconstructivism |
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denver art museum
daniel libeskind
titanium panelized skin
deconstructivism |
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"the crystal" ROM royal ontario museum
daniel libeskind
deconstructivism |
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gehry house
frank gehry
wrapping of traditional housewith new skin of corrugated metal, glass, and chain link.
stripping of existing areas to expose construction
use of non-traditional materials, low-cost, in inventive ways
deconstructivism |
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schnabel house
frank gehry
deconstructivism |
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vitra chair museum
frank gehry
deconstructivism |
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attic renovation
coop himmelblau
deconstructivism |
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UFA cinema center
coop himmelblau
deconstructivism |
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zachary house
stephen atkinson
combination of shotgun and dogtrot
vernacular materials: corrugated metal and corrugated fiberglass panels, exposed framing
neo-traditionalism |
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mason bend chapel
rural studio
rammed earth walls support large timber, which supports lightweight steel rods, with skin of recycled automobile door-windows
neo-traditionalism |
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cook house
mockbee-coker
neo-traditionalism |
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carraro residence
lake flato architects
neo-traditionalism |
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thorncrown chapel
faye jones
assembled from small wooden elements able to be carried in by two men
neo-traditionalism |
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marika alderton house
glen murcutt
mix of steel and traditional timber construction
neo-traditionalism |
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weill hall
robert a.m. stern
neo-traditionalism
historicism |
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maitland robinson library
quinlan terry
neo-traditionalism
historicism |
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krier house
leon krier
historicism
new urbanism |
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walter-chatham residence
walter chatham
neo-vernacular |
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seaside chapel
merrill, pastor, and colgan architects
carpenter gothic board and batten
neo-traditionalism |
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tilted arc
richard serra
minimalism |
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wrapped reichstag
christo
minimalism |
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walsh house
john pawson
minimalism |
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elektra house
david adjaye
minimalism |
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carter tucker house
sean godsell
minimalism |
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vietnam veterans memorial
maya lin
walls of polished black granite
minimalism |
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church of the light
tadao ando
cantilevered upper panels so no interruptions in cross
minimalism |
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fort worth museum of modern art
tadao ando
only six materials are visible: concrete, oak, glass, granite, painted steel, and drywall. the only colors are white and two shades of gray.
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naked house
shigeru ban
the external walls made of two sheets of corrugated fiber-reinforced plastics and the inner walls made of a nylon fabric are both mounted on wooden stud frames and sit in parallel. in between are attached clear plastic bags, carefully stuffed with strings of foamed polyethylene for insulation purpose. through these bags a soft diffused light fills in the interior of the house.
mobile box bedrooms
minimalism |
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murcia town hall
rafael moneo
minimalism |
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de blas house
alberto campo baeza
minimalism |
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brion cemetery
carlo scarpa
material modernism |
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the neurosciences institute
williams and tsien
travertine (marble with embedded fossils), glass, bamboo, wood, concrete
material modernism |
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museum of american folk art
williams and tsien
revealed our desire to clad the buildin in a material that was both common and amazing, and that would show a connection with the handmade quality of folk art.
material modernism |
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stretto house
steven holl
material modernism |
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chapel of st ignatius
steven holl
material modernism |
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kunsthaus bregenz
peter zumthor
double skin with steel exoskeleton and external translucent glass panels, slightly tilted in plan and section. "breathes" with the flow of air and moisture behind this first facade.
material modernism |
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signal box
herzog and demeuron
copper skin manually "peeled" up to expose windows of under-box
material modernism |
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library- eberswalde university
herzog and demeuron
imprinted concrete surface
material modernism |
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GSW headquarters
sauerbruch and hutton
material modernism |
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herz-jesu-kirche
allmann sattler wappner (ASW)
glass outer skin gradiates from transparency to translucency, while inner wooden box gradiates from opacity to translucency
front glass is actually printed with blue carpenter nail images, positive and negative
material modernism |
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solar umbrella house
pugh and scarpa
material modernism |
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netherland institute for sound and vision (NISV)
nueteling riedjik
ran the images together and baked them into the glass
material modernism |
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southwest metal offices
allmann sattler wappner (ASW)
stainless steel facade and cast steel latticework at the base and in the garden area.
ornamental metal trellis work, laid on teh ground, surrounds the buidlings and is continued up the walls
the facade is designed as a double skin facade
the shutters are constructed of the same stainless steel sheaths as the rest of the facade. these are perforated in different grades according to the requirements for view and daylight.
meta rationalism |
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prada tokyo
herzog and de meuron
diamond panel skin with mix of convex flat frosted concave
meta rationalism |
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de young museum
herzog and de meuron
the dramatic copper facade is perforated and textured to replicate the impression made by light filtering through a tree canopy. the copper skin, chosen for its changeable quality through oxidation, will assume a rich green patina over time that will blend gracefully with the surrounding environment.
meta rationalism |
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simmons hall
steven holl
amorphous "holes" that ran vertically up through the building.
these "atria" were originally envisioned as large spaces that opened up into the hallways and connected floors of the building in clever ways.
meta rationalism |
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the orange cube
jacob and mcfarlane
meta rationalism |
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serpentine gallery
toyo ito
meta rationalism |
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sendai mediatheque
toyo ito
glass box penetrated by tree-like cage columns which blend structure, data, light, and circulation
meta rationalism |
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seattle public library
rem koolhass
the stacks arranged along a continuous spiral ramp contained within a four-story slab, reinforce a sense of a world organized with machine-like precision.
meta rationalsim |
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CCTV building
rem koolhass OMA office for metropolitan architecture
diagrid- irregular pattern reflects the distribution of forces across the buildings surface
meta rationalism |
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olympic stadium
herzog and demeuron
the birdnest
meta rationalism |
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fred and ginger building
frank gehry
blobatecture |
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guggenheim bilbao
frank gehry
major civic attraction; economic engine
titanium panel skin
blobatecture |
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walt disney concert hall
frank gehry
titanium panel skin
bolbatecture |
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future systems
selfridge department store
covered in 15000 spun aluminum discs
blobatecture |
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kunsthaus graz
cook and fournier
opaque acrylic glass panels
nozzled roofscape of skylights
its outside skin is a media facade which can be changed electronically
blobatecture |
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new milan trade fair
massimilano fuksas
blobatecture |
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agbar tower
jean nouvel
has a multi-colored facade of aluminum panels, behind glass louvers, in 25 different colors.
blobatecture |
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BMW welt
coop himmelbau
blobatecture |
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cooper union building
morphosis
folded exterior with blobby interior atrium
blobatecture |
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q! hotel
graft
splitting surfaces which merge floor, wall, and ceiling
blobatecture |
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BMW plant central building
zaha hadid
interwoven program of offices and production
blobatecture |
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first christian church
frank lloyd wright
organic architecture |
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Prairie chicken house
herb greene
Cladding = unfinished cedar shingles and planks; aluminum
Aluminum spire becomes entry canopy
organic architecture |
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high desert house
Kendrick Bang Kellogg
organic architecture |
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kanye west apartment
Claudio Silvestrin
two main materials are French limestone and pear wood
minimalism |
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glass house
philip johnson
minimalism |
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Castelvecchio museum
carlo scarpa
material modernism |
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thermal baths
peter zumthor
Built using locally quarried Valser quarzite
slabs
material modernism |
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Fire and Police Station
Sauerbruch & Hutton
material modernism |
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Elbe Philharmonic
Herzog & De Meuron
meta rationalism |
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Ordos Museum
MAD
blobitecture |
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Mercedes Benz Museum
UN Studio
blobitecture |
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Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre
zaha hadid
glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP)
& concrete on ground
blobitecture |
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John Deere HQ
Eero Saarinen
COR-TEN steel structure
weathers /seals from further corrosion.
Hi-Tech |
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Centre Pompidou
Rogers & Piano
• Steel exoskeleton
• All systems are exposed and accessible
• Building systems all color-coded
Hi-Tech |
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inmos factory
Richard Rogers
Exposed exoskeleton of light steel trusses, struts, and cables
Hi-Tech |
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Lloyds of London
Richard Rogers
Cranes are
permanent for disand re-assembly
All service elements
are pulled to the
outside as modules.
Hi-Tech |
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De Menil Collection
Renzo Piano
a roof of 'leaves' of
thin ferro-cement
hi-Tech |
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Sainsbury Art Centre
Norman Foster
The walls and roof are continuous space-frame
All services housed within the 'outer wall zone
Hi-Tech |
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Renault Distribution Centre
Norman Foster
Modular unit system of steel masts and hanging roof
Hi-Tech |
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Hong Kong Bank
Norman Foster
Steel modular exoskeleton
hi-tech |
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Waterloo Station
Nicholas Grimshaw
banana truss
hi-tech |
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Astronaut Memorial
Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones HHPJ
Reflective wall of stone which tracks the sun and
backlights the names carved through the stone
hi-tech |
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Tjibaou Cultural Centre
Renzo Piano
hi-tech |
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London City Hall
Norman Foster
hi-tech |
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Hearst Building
Norman Foster
diagrid
Steel exoskeleton
hi-tech |
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Swiss Reinsurance Bldg
Norman Foster
sustainability and environmental issues.
use of enclosed lightwells inside the
double-skinned energy-efficient façade
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