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Staasgaleria
Date: 1977-83
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Architect: James Stirling
Similar but different from Schinkel's Altesmuseum as galleries organized around central rotunda but open above |
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TWA Terminal at JFK Airport
Date:1956-62
Location: New York City
Architect: Eero Saarinen
One of the first terminals with enclosed passenger jetways, closed circiut television, baggage carousels and scales, electronic schedule board |
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Simpson-Lee House
Date: 1989-94
Location: Australia
Architect: Glenn Murcutt
Work characterized as Lightweight, permeable structures, usually long and then, and with water features
Architect's motto "Touch the Earth Lightly" |
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Piazza d'Italia
Date: 1975-79
Location: New Orleans
Architect: Charles Moore
Known as 1st postmodern ruin as development planned for area didn't happen and it fell into decline
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Guggenheim Museum
Date:1997
Location: Spain
Architect: Frank Gehry
The Bilbao Effect refers to phenomenon that uses imaginatively designed projects to revitalize blighted urban area of cities
materials n exterior include glass, stone, and titanium |
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Venturi House
Date: 1962
Location: Chestnut Hill, PA
Architect: Robert Venturi
Simplicity of external form w/ complexity of interior layout and convential symbols and elements of contradictory arrangments characterize house
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Pompidou Museum
Date: 1976
Location: Paris
Architect: Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers
Architect's unique design approach called High-Tech Architecture |
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Sonny Tower (AT&T Tower)
Date: 1984
Location: New York City
Architect: Phillip Johnson
Characteristics include crown featuring broken pediment resembling grandfather clock and giant Serliana, cmpared to Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel |
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Saynatsalo Town Hall
Date: 1952-52
Location: Finland
Architect: Alvar Aalto
Design of building influenced by Italian Hill Towns
Work includes architecture, furniture, textiles, and glassware, functional approach that parralled the Deutscher Werkbund, and concern for a total work of art |
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Kimbell Art Museum
Dtae: 1966- 72
Location: Texas
Architect: Louis I. Kahn
Work represents fusion of seemingly contradictory sources and designed with served and servant spaces in mind
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