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Alvar Aalto Alvar Aalto Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright Philip JohnsonPhilip Johnson Ludwig Mies Van de RoheLudwig Mies Van de Rohe Walter Adolph Georg GropiusWalter Adolph Georg Gropius Louis Isadore KahnLouis Isadore Kahn Ieoh Ming PeiIeoh Ming Pei Louis Henri SullivanLouis Henri Sullivan Le CorbusierLe Corbusier
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Kenzo TangeKenzo Tange Minoru YamasakiMinoru Yamasaki Robert VenturiRobert Venturi Peter BehrensPeter Behrens Norman FosterNorman Foster Mario BottaMario Botta
Alvar Alvar AaltoAaltoFinish Architect & DesignerFinish Architect & Designer
Helsinki University of Technology auditorium
1898 -1976
ALVAR AALTO
FINLANDIA HALL - ELSINKI
ALVAR AALTO
ALVAR AALTO
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CHAIRS - Designed by Alvar Aalto
LIGHTS - Designed by Alvar Aalto
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Otaniemi Technical University Library
ALVAR AALTO
City hall, including public library Saynatsalo, Finland built 1952
Building Type government offices
Worker's Club · Jyvaskyla, Finland
Mount Angel Library · St. Benedict, near Mount Angel, Oregon
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Riola Parish Church · Riola, Italy
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The Aalto-Theater opera house in Essen, Germany.
overview from above, with town hall on the right, and library on the left · Seinajoki Library · Seinajoki, Finland
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Savoy Vase, 1936Karhula Iittala Glass Competition
ALVAR AALTO
Vase designs for Karhula-Iittala Glass Design
Nest of tables
Hillside Home School, 1902, Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin
June 1867 – April 1959
Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York
F. L. Wright
Falling water, Bear Run, Pennsylvania (1939) This famous Pennsylvania home has concrete slabs bolted into the hillside. Built in
1935. F. L. Wright
F. L. Wright
Guggenheim Museum, at New York, New York, 1956 to 1959
F. L. WrightRobbie Residence, at Chicago, Illinois, 1909.
In the 1940s, a group of scientists who worked for the Upjohn Company asked architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design homes for a housing subdivision in Galesburg, Michigan. The scientists envisioned a cooperative community with inexpensive houses they could build themselves.
F. L. Wright
Postmodern AT&T Building, now the Sony Building , Manhattan , N.Y - 1978
July, 1906– January, 2005)
The Seagram Building in collaboration with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
PPG Place is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Glass house
The Crystal Cathedral is a Protestant Christian megachurch in the city of Garden Grove, in Orange County, California.
IBM Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 860–880 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois.
March, 1886 – August, 1969)
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington.
S.R. Crown Hall on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology is a National Historic Landmark
Van de Rohe
1883 –1969
Bauhaus (built 1925–1926) in Dessau, Germany
Gropius
The Fagus Factory (German: Fagus Fabrik or Fagus Werk) was constructed between 1911 and 1913 Gropius
Gropius
Gropius
Gropius
Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban, Dhaka hosts the national parliament of Bangladesh
1901 –1974
Yale University Art Gallery
Kahn
The First Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York , 1959
Kahn
The Kimbell Art Museum is situated in the Cultural District of Fort
Worth, Texas, USA.
Exeter library New Hampshire Kahn
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is an independent, non-profit, scientific research institute located in La Jolla, California
Kahn
Pyramidal glass entrance, Louvre Paris
1917-
Green Building, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
I.M.PEI
John Hancock Tower, in Boston, Massachusetts
JPMorgan Chase Tower of Houston, Texas, The Gateway Singapore
I.M.PEI
I.M.PEI Garden of Suzhou Museum , China Torre Espacio, Madrid, Spain (2004)
I.M.PEI Bank of China Tower, in Hong Kong (1982–1990 )
I.M.PEI
1995 — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, United States; showing Lake Erie in the foreground
East Wing, National Gallery in Washington DC
I.M. Pei designed a museum wing that would contrast with the classical design of surrounding buildings.
1856–1924
Auditorium Building, Chicago
L.H.SULLIVAN
Van Allen Building, Clinton, Iowa (1914)
L.H.SULLIVAN
Merchants' National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa (1914)
L.H.SULLIVAN
National Farmer's Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota (1908)
Wainwright building St Louis (1890)
Le Corbusier
1887–1965
National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Japan - Unité d'Habitation, Marseille, France 1947-1952
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, 1929-30
spiral staircase
Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, 1929-30
Le Corbusier
Church of Saint-Pierre, Firminy
Villa La Roche gallery Chappell Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France, 1950-1954
The Curutchet House in La Plata, Argentina
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Bauhaus Chair
UNESCO Headquarters in Paris
BMW building in San Donato Milanese American Medical Association headquarters
in Chicago Kenzo Tange
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
Kenzo Tange
Kenzo Tange
Kenzo Tange
Fuji TV headquarters and Aqua City Odaiba
1912 –1986
Minoru Yamasaki
Minoru Yamasaki
1925 -
R.Venturi
German Designer, 1868-1940
P. Behrens
30 St Mary Axe · London, England, UK
The Sage Gateshead viewed across the Tyne
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, UK
N.FOSTER
New German Parliament, Reichstag, Berlin, Germany
Millennium Bridge taken from the Newcastle side
Traditional Islamic design inspired the floor plans for two PETRONAS towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Each floor of the 88-story towers is shaped like an 8-pointed star. The two towers have been called cosmic pillars that spiral heavenward. At the 42nd floor, a flexible bridge connects the two PETRONAS Towers.
In downtown Tokyo, the NTT Shinjuku Head Office Building demonstrates the expressive possibilities of a thin metal skin.
Location: Hong KongArchitect: Cesar Pelli Year: 2003 Height: 414 meters Stories: 88
Architect: Bruce Graham, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM)
The towering Jin Mao Building in Shanghai, China reflects traditional Chinese architecture. Year: 1999 Height: 421 meters , Stories: 88
The China International Trust and Investment Company (CITIC) building in Guangzhou is the world's tallest skyscraper made of reinforced concrete.
Architect: DLN Architects Year: 1997 Height: 391 meters / 1,283 feetStories: 80
Location: Shenzhen, China Architect: K.Y. Cheung Design Assc.Year: 1996 Height: 384 meters Stories: 69
Also known as Di Wang Mansion or Di Wang Commercial Centre, Shun Hing Square in Shenzhen is the tallest all-steel high rise in China.
1905-1930: Neo-Gothic
The Chicago Tribune TowerThe Woolworth Building 1911 -1913 New York, New York, USACass Gilbert, architect
Architect Shreve, Lamb and HarmonLocation New York, 1931 skyscraper Construction System steel frame, stone cladding
Art Deco
102 floors, 1252 feet, 381 meters high.
1925-1937: Art Deco
The Art Deco Chrysler Building has jazzy automobile ornaments
Emirates Office Tower and its smaller sister, Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel, are soaring symbols of Dubai City.Architect: Norr Group Consultants Int. Ltd., Hazel W.S. WoEmirates Office Tower Year: 1999 Emirates Office Tower Height: 355 meters Emirates Office Tower Stories: 54 Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel Year: 2000Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel Height: 309 meters /Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel Stories: 56
Towering over the Wanchai waterfront in Hong Kong, the Central Plaza office building is 374 meters tall.Architect: Ng Chun ManYear: 1992Height: 374 meters / 1,227 feetStories: 78
Taipei 101 Tower in Taipei, Taiwan is currently the world's tallest building - if you count its massive 60-foot spire. Architect: C.Y. Lee & Partner Year: 2004 Height: 509 meters Stories: 101
Also known as the Tuntex & Chien-Tai Tower, the T & C Tower, and 85 Skytower, the 85-floor Tuntex Sky Tower is the tallest building in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The zinc-coated zigzag Jewish Museum is one of Berlin's most prominent landmarks and brought international fame to architect Daniel Libeskind
Weisman Art Museum
At the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain (1997)
The 'MARTa' museum in Herford, Germany offers 2,500 square meters of exhibition space.
Gehry-Tower. Hannover
Eiffel Tower in Paris, 1889