10(+) architects I have been thinking about

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It reminds me vaguely of the saucer church (Temppeliaukio) in Helsinki:

http://www.muuka.com/finnishpumpkin/churches/helsinki/chteh/church_chteh.html

― admrl, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link

i like.

― jed_, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I like the shell of the interior very much, but the pulpit and altar seem kind of precious, maybe too much of a composed presence in the space for their functions.

― I DIED, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link

uh, it's a chapel!

― jed_, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link

sorry about the "uh," i hate it when other people do that. but you know, it is a chapel after all - "composed presence"/preciousness is part of the objective.

― jed_, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link

It's a chapel, not a sculpture garden. Because there are so few elements in the space it seems like the expressed stair on the pulpit and the asymmetry of the altar (and the color of both) would be visually distracting during a mass. At Ronchamp he used the same concrete for those elements and a more pure design - to me the sculptural expressiveness of the walls call for very simplified forms for the focal pieces within.

― I DIED, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link

i can imagine something simpler there but nothing better. Ronchamp on the whole is much more expressive and than this, i think it seems calmer from the exterior that Ronchamp and more focussed on achieving specific effects inside. it can't have been fully detailed when Le Corb left it & i'm not saying it's the equal of Ronchamp but nothing is. it's quite incredible though.

― jed_, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link

that = than

― jed_, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Lovin' Le Corbusier!

Jed_ very OTM!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:18 (sixteen years ago) link

gabnebs and jeds are v. nice selections. nice thread

Salk research institute - Loius Kahn

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_3147944.jpg

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_3149379.jpg

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_3148302.jpg

― SusanD, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Louis Kahn - Kimbell Art Museum (need better pics tho)

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http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_1871012.jpg

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_2469461.jpg

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_1851204.jpg

― SusanD, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link

plus Bernard Shaw's rotating writing shack

― SusanD, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link

re morphosis: why the hell would you want an external staircase on such a tall building?

I saw Mayne speak about this building a couple months ago - he's a terrible speaker, but one thing I did take away was that the staircases in this building are not only exterior but mandatory - elevators only go to every other level, so you're going to do a lot of walking up and down. Presumably there's some alternate way of getting around or they'd never get it past ADA. Anyway, he says that right around this time the Surgeon General had issued some sort of papal bull to the effect that climbing stairs would prolong their life, and so in their pitch Morphosis argued that a career employee of this building would live ten days, six hours, and twenty-odd minutes longer.

The church in Firminy was finished by Jose Oubrerie, once an apprentice of Corb's. He made a fair number of design decisions himself, and took fair advantage of technology that was never available to Corb to get the perfectly curved, thin shell of super-plasticized concrete. He had worked on the church back in the 60s and 70s until construction ground to a halt, and when they resumed construction they actually had to saw two feet off the top to get a good connection between the new concrete and old.

Oubrerie is on the faculty at my school and is, bizarrely, teaching my Intro To Concrete class, so we get a lot of random fun facts about this building, which indeed looks lovely - I can't wait to visit. My favorite thing is how it manages to seem like such a massive, monolithic oddity from some angles and then, seen from a distance, feel like a jewel very happily nesting in the town.

Funnily enough, Prof. Oubrerie was absent last week and the fill-in professor gave a fairly interesting impromptu talk on....Louis Kahn, and his relationship with his structural engineer. She lingered at length on the Kimbell museum, which is one of those buildings I'd really really like to see except I can't imagine under what circumstances I'd ever be in Fort Worth.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link

frank gehry c/d

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link

I was watching a documentary on Eileen Gray last night and E-1027 was one of the main subjects. The camera really caught how the building was placed on the mountainside and the incredible views it had. I know it's kind of a one off but as a designer I think she turned architect really well!

http://www.lamujerconstruye.org/images/E1027.jpg
http://mediatheque.nancy.archi.fr/consultation/Bibliogr/Maquettes/photos/photos2003/bonnes/DSCN0474.JPG

Gehry? Neither for me, really. A little bit of a one trick pony sort of thing...

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:03 (sixteen years ago) link

PS. I come at Gehry only knowing Bilbao and that he was going to put loads of his buildings in downtown LA.

I like curves but I dunno, a limit can sometimes be reached!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link

i'm a complete novice & have an instinctual aversion, to bilbao. it thinks it's such hot shit.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:23 (sixteen years ago) link

I was watching a documentary on Eileen Gray last night

Details please.

Wow - I always thought E-1027 was 'just' a table. And now I read it might have been the last thing le corbusier saw. Overall it's had a pretty crazy history.

http://ireland.archiseek.com/tesserae/000007.html

Where is it now?

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Still there. France are about to restore it. His murals are still intact. The doc did go into the fact that people thought that LC had designed it. I like the idea of a sun pool rather than a pond. For practical reasons it wasn't to be filled with water for fear of mosquitos but it was designed for tanning and cocktails. My kind of pool really!

The documentary was for RTE (Irish National Broadcaster) so not sure whether anyone would have youtubed or torrented. I'll get you the proper name.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:45 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Recently stumbled on the work of Axel Schultes. He's got some recurring gimmicks, but from the photos I'm intrigued....

Crematorium, Berlin, 92-99
http://www.schultes-architekten.de/bild/PUR_3.jpg

Federal Chancellery, Berlin, 95-01
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/395394977_369bcf901a.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/334949530_b285fccbdd.jpg

Beats the White House!

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 June 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link

http://muddyriver.typepad.com/hearth/images/7-20.jpg

New Boston Convention Center

And

Frank Gehry's MIT Building

http://www.onnyturf.com/storage/users/1/1/images/29/MIT_Gehry_outside2.jpg

That building really is an acid trip waiting to happen.

― MaGoGo, Sunday, 3 June 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link

oh cmon, Frank Gehry is such a shite architect. he doesn't design anything himself. most overrated architect of our time, without a doubt.

― the table is the table, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link

some people i have been thinking about:
Superstudio
http://chudessa.typepad.com/infiniteartifice/images/superstudio.jpg

― the table is the table, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Oberlin's Mudd Library
http://jsnfmn.net/images/photos/places/oberlin_mudd.jpg

― the table is the table, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Superstudio was so amazing... even better than Archigram in some ways.

― I DIED, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link

The Amanyara Spa in Turks & Caicos
http://www.seasonsinstyle.co.uk/hotelimages/hotel_58_1282.jpg

― the table is the table, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link

one architect i have been thinking about: toyo ito

last night i watched a short documentary about the Sendai Mediatheque. I lived in Sendai for two years and used the Mediatheque at least once a week, and i don't think i realized what i had until i watched the documentary about it.

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/01/0102_wow_libraries/image/09002.jpg

http://www.architecture.com/imageLibrary/jpeg330/10242.jpg

― jergïns, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link

AWESOME THREAD...eye candy from top to bottom!

― Tape Store, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link

that resort is the cleanest, most zen-like piece of architecture i've seen in a while-- almost looks like an Ando structure, but more lush...

also, Superstudio definitely beats Archigram for me, if only because they were more radical and their designs and concepts more clean.

― the table is the table, Sunday, 3 June 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link

oh cmon, Frank Gehry is such a shite architect. he doesn't design anything himself

Explain.

― MaGoGo, Sunday, 3 June 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/ArchitecturePeter-Zumthor--Brother-.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/ArchitecturePeter-Zumthor--Broth-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/ArchitecturePeter-Zumthor--Broth-2.jpg

Peter Zumthor - Brother Klaus Field Chapel at Mechernich

"Brother Klaus", the religious mystic also known as Nicholas of Flue: a 15th-century hermit who is also the patron saint of Switzerland.

The apparently simple form of Zumthor's building proves to be far richer than it first appears. The concrete has been poured by Herr Scheidtweiler, family and friends, over a wigwam-like timber frame. Once the concrete had set, this frame was set on fire, creating walls inside the chapel that are strangely blackened and haunted with the ghosts of the timbers that once supported them. The floor is a frozen pool of molten lead, while the roof is open to the sky and, by night, the field of stars above. Rain and sunlight tumble and fall through this oculus to create atmospheric patterns of shade and glistening weather.

Zumthor's chapel is numinously dark inside, but when you look up, the oculus itself resembles the flare of a star - a reference, presumably, to Brother Klaus's vision in the womb. Being here alone is close to feeling, if not understanding, the faith that sustained the Swiss hermit.

Johnathan Glancey

― jed_, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/ArchitecturePeter-Zumthor--Broth-3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/ArchitecturePeter-Zumthor--Broth-4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/ArchitecturePeter-Zumthor--Broth-5.jpg

― jed_, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/ArchitecturePeter-Zumthor--Broth-6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/ArchitecturePeter-Zumthor--Broth-7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/ArchitecturePeter-Zumthor--Broth-8.jpg

― jed_, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Wonderful! I'd love to see it in person with the light streaming in.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link

This was a wonderful thread, cheers to everyone for making such awesome posts.

I'd like to add Todd Saunders to this post though: http://www.saunders.no

― P. Hauntus, Thursday, 21 June 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I spent five weeks in Europe this summer looking at architecture, and am now making my way through the photos. I had notions of just spamming this thread to pieces, but I'll try to keep it to things I thought were totally neat and not really over-exposed at this point. Links are to my Flickr pages, which feature all the pretentious archi-babble you couple possibly want.

Wandel, Hoefer, Hirsch and Lorch: New Synagogue, Dresden (1997-2001)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1358/1019366889_27143a13a2.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1419/1020390286_f5f3e76279.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 6 August 2007 07:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Herzog & DeMeuron, Cottbus University Library, Cottbus (2004)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1286/1012425371_32ba84ad9c.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1182/1012426563_2d10489c1a.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1077/1013622692_a3cf50db96.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 6 August 2007 07:50 (sixteen years ago) link

BTW, props to P. Hauntus for linking the Saunders stuff - never heard of him but I like several things shown on that site.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 6 August 2007 07:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Doctor Casino, your 'Adventure' flickr and the commentary have improved my post-bank holiday morning more than you could believe! Many thanks!

I am also v jealous of long holiday on sunny continent!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 10:13 (sixteen years ago) link

i love this thread.

― ^@^, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 11:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Thanks, kv_nol! Now that I know ILX is not actually dead, here's another little dose..

The ever-controversial Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Hundertwasserhaus, Vienna.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1078/1074205574_c3237f9200.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1431/1074207102_a12d46a54d.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 12 August 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link

(1983-1986, if you care!)

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 12 August 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Otto Wagner, Kirche am Steinhof, Vienna (1905-1907)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1021/1072841639_4119061ce0.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1377/1072841699_f993893804.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 12 August 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link

herzog & de meuron are very good.

― elan, Sunday, 12 August 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Giovanni Michelucci, Chiesa dell'Autostrada del Sole (Church of the Highway of the Sun, Florence, 1960-1964)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1272/1196710226_658e8ea782.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1358/1196710318_cb4c6574ab.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link

Carlo Scarpa, Brion-Vega Cemetery (~Altivole, 1970-1972)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1184/1123228572_61e5865220.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1155/1122625393_38305e659a.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 05:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Doctor Casino, no interiors of Santa Croce in Florence? My favourite church there by a long shot.

Fantastic pictures of Siena. What's the story are you all architecture students on a jolly or is it just you that's on this 'pilgrimage' (wrong word I know...)?

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link

I did like Santa Croce, but looking through my negatives it looks like it got skipped. Dang.

Yeah, it was an architecture field trip, basically - organized by a very dedicated professor at my college who's been doing these trips for something like ten years now. The agenda (which is scheduled down to fifteen-minute increments some days) gets tweaked a bit every year to allow for brand-new buildings or things that are out of commission (eg, the Tugendhat House in Brno has been cut till its renovation is complete), and there are alternating schedules every other year. So, cross fingers, assuming the program stays viable financially and I can make it work with my own means, I'll be doing this again next summer for Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Even if that falls through, this year's trip by itself has more than tripled my interest in, knowledge of, and mental percolation of, architecture...such a fabulous time.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link

You are an incredibly lucky person. I would love to do something like that! Keep taking the pictures. Fantastic welcome back to desk after long weekend!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link

'Person' obviously wasn't the word I was going to use but I thought that it might be a little too... aggressive to use the other :)

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link

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