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Architecture
*Eames House entry (Case Study House #8)
*Sweetzer House (between 1930–33)
*St. Louis Post-Dispatch model home (193?)
*St. Mary's Church (Helena, Arkansas) (1934)
*St. Mary's Church (Paragould, Arkansas) (1935)
*Dinsmoor House (1936)
*Dean House (193?)
*Meyer House (1938)
*Bridge house (Eames-Saarinen) (1945)
*Entenza House (1949)
*Eames House (1949)
*Max De Pree House (1954)
Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray leaving Los Angeles with
the Films for the 1959 American National
Exhibitionin Moscow
Nationality American
Awards AIA Twenty-five Year
Award, 1977
Royal Gold Medal,
1979
"The Most Influential
Designer of the 20th
Century" IDSA 1985
Work
Practice The Eames Office
Buildings Eames House
Projects Eames Lounge Chair
Wood (LCW)
Eames lounge chair
and ottoman
'Powers of Ten'
Eames house
Architect Charles Eames
Location Pacific
Palisades, California
map
Date 1945 to 1949 timeline
Building Type house
Construction
System semi-prefab, light steel
frame with panels
Climate mild temperate
Context rural
Style Modern
Notes Case Study House No.
8. Modern aesthetic of
light elegant assembly
from standard
industrial elements.
Louis Kahn
Born February 20, 1901
Kuressaare, Governorate of
Estonia, Russian Empire
Died March 17, 1974 (aged 73)
New York City
Nationality American
Awards AIA Gold Medal
RIBA Gold Medal
Work
Buildings Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban
Yale University Art Gallery
Salk Institute
Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad
Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Kimbell Art Museum
Projects Center of Philadelphia,Urban
and Traffic Study
Timeline of works
-1962 – Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.
-1962 – National Assembly Building, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
-1963 – President's Estate, Islamabad, Pakistan (unbuilt).
-1965 – Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Front Street, Exeter, New
Hampshire.
-1966 – Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth,
Texas.
Kimbell Art Museum
Aldo Rossi
Born May 3, 1931
Milan, Italy
Died September 4,
1997 (aged 66)
Milan, Italy
Nationality Italian
Alma mater Politecnico di Milano
Awards Pritzker Prize (1990)
Work
Buildings Teatro Carlo
Felice
Architecture
-The Quarter Schüzenstrasse, in Berlin.
-Monte Amiata complex in the Gallaratese district of Milan,
Italy with Carlo Aymonino.
-San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena, Italy (1971)
-Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Italy (1981).
-Centro direzionale, Perugia, Italy (1982–88).
-Palazzo Hotel in Fukuoka, Japan (1986–89).
-Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (1990–94).
-Quartier Schützenstrasse in Berlin, Germany (1994–98).
-Ca' di Cozzi in Verona, Italy, his last project
Mojiko Hotel, KitaKyushu, Japan (1996-1998).
Quartier Schützenstrasse
-The contents of the book is :-
1). Structure of urban artifacts.
2). Primary elements and the concept of area.
3). The individuality of urban artifacts; from architectural aspect.
4). The evolution of urban artifacts.
-As a summary I conclude the following:-
1). Aldo Rossi provides a deep new "post-modern" perspective of the city as a
diverse and collective human feat which refutes Le Corbusier's view of the city
from the mere standpoint of urban planning.
2). offer different dimension to see a city. not only from utilitarian view like le
Corbusier's Radiant City, but from another dimension like socio-historical
perspective. Rossi idea about collective memory, urban artifacts, city's
permanence are very profound.
Luis Barragán Morfín
Born March 9, 1902
Guadalajara, Jalisco, M
exico
Died November 22, 1988
(aged 86)
Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality Mexican
Awards Pritzker Prize
Work
Buildings Torres de Satélite
Important works
-Las Arboledas / North of Mexico City (1955–1961).
-House for the architect / Barragán House, Mexico City
(1947–48).
-Jardines del Pedregal Subdivision, Mexico City (1945–53).
-Tlalpan Chapel, Tlalpan, Mexico City (1954–60).
-Gálvez House, Mexico City (1955).
-Jardines del Bosque Subdivision, Guadalajara (1955–58).
-Torres de Satélite, Mexico City (1957–58), in collaboration
with Mathias Goeritz.
-Cuadra San Cristóbal, Los Clubes, Mexico City (1966–68).
-Gilardi House, Mexico City (1975–77).
Torres de Satélite
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius (circa 1919). Photo by Louis Held
Born Walter Adolph Georg Gropius
May 18, 1883
Berlin, Germany
Died July 5, 1969 (aged 86)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality German/American
Work
Practice Peter Behrens (1908–1910)
The Architects'
Collaborative(1945–1969)
Buildings Fagus Factory
Werkbund Exhibition (1914)
Bauhaus
Gropius House
University of Baghdad
J.F. Kennedy Federal Building
Pan Am Building
Selected buildings
-1921 Sommerfeld House, Berlin, Germany designed for
Adolf Sommerfeld.
-1922 competition entry for the Chicago Tribune Tower
competition.
-1925–1932 Bauhaus School and Faculty, Housin, Dessau,
Germany.
-1936 Village College, Impington, Cambridge, England
1936 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea, London, England.
-1937 The Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA.
-1942–1944 Aluminum City Terrace housing project, New
Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA.
-1949–1950 Harvard Graduate Center, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA (The Architects' Collaborative).
His tribune tower entry
-Entries for 1922 Chicago Tribune Tower competition. From left to
right, entries by:-
Eliel Saarinen, Walter Gropius & Adolf Meyer, Adolf Loos.
Robert Venturi
Born 25 June 1925
Philadelphia, Pennsylv
ania
Awards Pritzker
Prize (1991), Vincent
Scully Prize (2002)
Selected works
-House in East Hampton, Long Island, New York (1990).
-Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Princeton University, New Jersey (1986).
-Gordon Wu Hall; Princeton University, New Jersey (1983).
-House in New Castle, Delaware (1983).
-Coxe-Hayden House and Studio; Block Island, Rhode Island (1981).
-Best Products Catalog Showroom; Langhorne, Pennsylvania (1978).
-Allen Memorial Art Museum modern addition, Oberlin College;
Oberlin, Ohio (1976).
-BASCO Showroom; Philadelphia (1976).
-Franklin Court; Philadelphia (1976).
-Dixwell Fire Station, New Haven, CT (1974).
-Brant House; Greenwich, Connecticut (1972).
-Trubek and Wislocki Houses; Nantucket, Massachusetts (1971).
-Fire Station #4; Columbus, Indiana (1968).
-Vanna Venturi House; Philadelphia (1964).
-Guild House; Philadelphia (1964).
Vanna venturi house elevations and section.
Vanna venturi house plans.
*The New York Five refers to a group of five New York City architects (Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles
Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier) whose work appeared in a Museum of Modern Art exhibition organized by
Arthur Drexler in 1967, and the subsequent book Five Architects in 1972.
*These five had a common allegiance to a pure form of architectural modernism, harkening back to the work of Le
Corbusier in the 1920s and 1930s, although on closer examination their work was far more individual.
*The grouping may have had more to do with social and academic allegiances, particularly the mentoring role of Philip
Johnson.
*These five, known as the "Grays", attacked the "Whites" on the grounds that this pursuit of the pure modernist aesthetic
resulted in unworkable buildings that were indifferent to site, indifferent to users, and divorced from daily life. These
"Grays" were aligned with Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi and the emerging interest in vernacular architecture and
early postmodernism.
*John Hejduk was primarily an educator, and died in 2000.
*Charles Gwathmey died on August 3, 2009.
*The remaining three of the New York Five have produced significantly divergent work, and disavow any continuing
relationship with each other.
*Graves embraced postmodernism.
*Eisenman has limited his work to images and models of architectural-looking designs in printed media, although he
became the architect most associated with Deconstructivism.
*Meier's buildings remain truest to the modernist aesthetic and, true to Corbusian form.
*Gwathmey, too, remained true to modernist style, although its purity has been tempered by realities of larger corporate
and public commissions.
Bernard Tschumi
Born January 25,
1944 (age 68)
Lausanne, Swit
zerland
Awards More Than 20
Awards[show]
Work
Buildings Limoges
Concert Hall
Buildings
-Parc de la Villette, Paris, France (1983–98)
-Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University, New York, New York (1999)
-New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece (2002–08)
-FIU School of Architecture, Florida International University, Miami,
Florida (2003)
-Vacheron Constantin Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland (2004)
-Lindner Athletic Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
(2006)
-Blue Condominium at 105 Norfolk Street in the Lower East Side of
New York City (2007)
-Concert Hall, Limoges, France (2007)
Parc de la villette FIU school of architecture
