10(+) architects I have been thinking about

Could somebody explain the specialness of Christian Kerez? I like all the other pieces jed posted, but I think I'm missing something about the Kerez...

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay, after Googling I understand it's the Chapel of St. Nepomuk, a fairly small building made of stone, very symmetrical and very minimalist. The site is beautiful, and the way the building sits so precariously at the very edge of that meadow is interesting. Still seems out of place compared to the other images; would love to know your thoughts about it jed.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.pragueinternational.cz/img/unesco/ZelenaHora_Unesco.jpg

went to this UNESCO nepomuk, in the czech rep

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Paul, it's a good question! i've never seen the building but, while i was looking through a 500 or so page architecture book this week, the Kapel St.Nepomuk was the one thing that really made me stop and look. this could be just a result of stunning photographs and an incredible site but more than that it's just that it seems an absolute reduction of western vernacular architectural signifiers to the extent the buliding becomes a religious object regardless of its use (which is religious, of course): rectangular plan, a room, a door, one window (a slit window in this case), pitched roof, concrete, the fact that the material is raw and left to weather naturally (see this link for a close up http://www.0lll.com/lud/pages/architecture/archgallery/fontana_cazis/pages/chapel_01.htm). it just seems really pure but mysterious at the same time. it's also seems like it would be quite an easy effect to achieve but (like the painting of Mark Rothko, for example) i bet it's incredibly difficult. i think he pulls it off but there's a fine line with this sort of design.

http://www.rizzi.ch/foto15sw.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 10 November 2005 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Architects who have been ripping themselves off lately (Gehry, I'm leaving you out of this - everyone already knows it):

Santiago Calatrava: Why have no architecture critics been calling you out? You're getting lazy, and headed down a bad road. One good building x 100 does not = 100 good buildings.

Tenerife Opera House (already a bit too much of an echo of Sydney Opera House):
http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/archives/images/0402TenerifeOpera.jpg

Atlanta Symphony Center (proposed):
http://www.atlantasymphonycenter.org/images/300symphonycenter1.jpg

Will Alsop: We like floating buildings with crazy columns, too. Just not all the time.

Peckham Library:
http://web.tiscali.it/archivioarchamica/afcPagSchede/report/03/=immagini/peck07.JPG

Sharp Centre:
http://static.flickr.com/2/1645748_781502e03a.jpg

Diller & Scofidio: Why are you putting all your effort into art installations and applying the same solution to vastly different sites? The floating glass box is one thing, but the stepped seating is getting out of hand.

Boston ICA (under construction):
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/92/1672/320/ICA%20em%20Boston%203.jpg

Allice Tully Hall:
http://www.curbed.com/2005_11_tully2.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

New Herzog and De Meuron building in my town:

http://static.flickr.com/24/56930532_819905c7fd.jpg

― barefoot in the weight room (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

wow. what is it?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link

It's the new De Young museum.

― barefoot in the weight room (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 November 2005 07:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I've always liked this one:

Zaha Hadid
http://www_link.cyhg.gov.tw/community/images/Dayeh/940306-2/2Archi-Hadid-010b.jpg

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 24 November 2005 08:07 (eighteen years ago) link

pretty bad

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 24 November 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

i've been reading up on the milwaukee art museum and found out that

-it was designed by eero saarinen (who did the st. louis arch and the very jetsonian TWA terminal 5 at JFK)

-in 2001 a new extension was built by santiago calatrava (the spanish architect known in new york for his work on the beautiful new WTC PATH station)

also curious about the frederick law olmsted- designed parks and the frank lloyd wright system-built homes. i might be visiting milwaukee soon and i'm excited -- there's so much to see!

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

reason for visit = was accepted into the MUP program at UWM's school of architecture and urban planning and my gut feeling is that i'd love it there

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link

this one from gabb's list is really pretty and elegant... what/where is it? (the image properties say "bluffton.edu" but that might not mean anything.)

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/yamasaki/courtyardporch.jpg

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a shame that the Milwaukee Art Museum has invested its public image so heavily in the Calatrava wing that it's hard to tell from their website or any of their materials that they also have a Saarinen building a couple hundred feet away. And I don't think the connection between the two is very successful, but I guess contextuality has never been Calatrava's strong suit.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, i was wondering how well the two buildings (the saarinen museum and the calatrava wing) were integrated. i hate it when a cool old building is shoved aside (or torn down) so some starchitect can do something more modern -- sort of like what they've been planning with i.m. pei's original javits center, which i love the cold, no-nonsense '80s sterility of!

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

not that '80s = "old building," but you know what i mean.

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link

but i think milwaukee is really trying to turn its mainstream image around through its investment in art/architecture -- it wants to go from being "beer and laverne and shirley to a world-class city. but they could have done that without any new projects, just by big-upping the saarinen/frank lloyd wright connections they already had.

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link

(x-post) Considering that today's NY profile of the Javits' new chairman had quotes like "...in an ideal world this expansion plan may not be perfect, but for our purposes, it is," I don't think it's too late to lose hope for a few more acres of no-nonsense sterility!

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

the designs i saw were pretty, but they look like they could be anywhere -- they don't have a very "new york" feel. looks like a high-end suburban galleria, kinda.

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Loiusville is the new Milwaukee!

http://www.museumplaza.net/images.html

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

FUGLY

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link

If you're near Racine, make sure to visit the Johnson Wax Factory. I would like to touch this building before I die (ooh, I feel like Anthony Easton saying that):

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/flw/jwaxext1.jpg
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/flw/jwax2.jpg
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/flw/jwax8.jpg

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I am obsessed with Alvar Aalto at the moment. He's already been mentioned on this thread.

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

If you're near Racine, make sure to visit the Johnson Wax Factory.

oh, that's on the list. i've heard racine is really cool.

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link

In Bartlesville, Oklahoma you can stay in Wright's Price Tower - it's been partially converted into a hotel. Better to go before the planned Zaha Hadid addition goes up next door.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c5/Price_tower.jpg/300px-Price_tower.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

jbr, if you haven't seen these, I simply can't recommend them enough. I got them through Netflix (thanks to ILXor Cprek/Drake Beardo) but I'm saving to buy them all because they are quite incredible. I have actually been moved to tears a few times during the series!

A quick precis:

ARCHITECTURES 1
1995-2001
A privileged, unprecedented inside look at the work of superstar architects and some of their most brilliant creations, produced by the European public television channel ARTE. Architectures 1 covers milestones like Germany's famed Bauhaus and the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, and examines the work of architects Jean Nouvel, Otto Wagner, Walter Gropius, Alvaro Siza, and others. 1995-2001, 163 mins.

ARCHITECTURES 2
1995-2001
This breathtaking series looks at architecture and its historical and social functions to reveal its meaning and impact on humanity. Architectures 2 analyses Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Wax building, the innovations of the Galleria Umberto 1, the luxurious Stone Thermal Baths, and a high-speed train station in Satolas. 1995-2001, 136 mins.

ARCHITECTURES 3
1995-2001
A privileged, unprecedented inside look at the work of superstar architects and some of their most brilliant creations, produced by the European public television channel ARTE. Architectures 3 examines the Jewish Museum of Berlin, designed by Daniel Liebeskind; Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Theatre in Chicago; a Dominican convent designed by Le Corbusier; Charles Garnier's Parisian Opera; and buildings by Antonio Gaudi and Alvar Aalto. France, 1995-2001, 160 mins.

ARCHITECTURES 4
2004-2005
Fourth in the insightful series of films gives us a privileged, unprecedented inside look at the work of celebrated architects and some of their most brilliant creations. This volume covers such groundbreaking sites as The Royal Saltworks of Arc and Senans, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the "rational" architecture of Jean Prouve's House, the St. Foy Abbey, and The Sendai Mediatheque. France, 2004-2005, 160 mins.

For some odd reason, there was an episode on a Rem Koolhaas house that was aired in France but isn't included in the set. A minor disappointment.

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i like that a lot... it blends in well with the landscape. (xpost)

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Some of the Architectures episodes-particularly on La Maison De Verre, The Royal Saltworks and The Stone Thermal Baths-are beautiful pieces of filmmaking in their own right. I'd love to make something like that.

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm very interested in saltworks, stone thermal baths, and structures like those -- i wouldn't mind checking those episodes out.

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

the calatrava pavilion/extension just kinda comes out of a lower wall

the main space is cool and the wings, etc, but it is not a great building

bridge helps, though

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/wisconsin/milwaukee/saarinen/angle3.jpg

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:09 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah whatever there's a statue of lincoln out front

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

and here's calatrava's bit... looks like an airport!

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/wisconsin/milwaukee/calatrava/frontangle.jpg

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

not really but it is covered w/ bugs

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

the interior looks terrific!

http://southsidecallbox.com/ilx/405px-Interior_Milwaukee_Art_Museum.jpg

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link

it's an entrance hall mostly

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link

this one from gabb's list is really pretty and elegant... what/where is it?

the Oberlin Conservatory

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link

It seems like Calatrava's mission in life is to make great spaces for event rentals.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

And speaking of Calatrava making event rental spaces... the aftermath of Martinifest.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

thought abt h&dM, again, a wee while ago:

http://www.pixelmap.com/images/Arch/dma_meuron_08.jpg

http://www.pixelmap.com/images/Arch/dma_meuron_04.jpg

http://www.pixelmap.com/images/Arch/dma_meuron_05.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link

here's a little Koolhaas
http://static.flickr.com/32/46552862_f4d7fade93.jpg

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2003/04/19/ho_architect_2.jpg
http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2003/04/19/ho_architect_1.jpg

ROGER LEE

― andy --, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

And the verdict is in on the Javits Center expansion!

"We're concerned" - Mark Schienberg, president of the Greater New York Dealers Association
"No one is terribly enthusiastic about this plan" - Senator Charles Schumer
"The design will lower productivity and increase costs substantially" - John F. O'Connell Jr., exec. VP of Freeman
"fatally flawed" - Robert Boyle, former chairman of the Javits operating corporation
"They're doing what they can with the money they have, but it's going to result in something second-rate." - Anna Levin, member of an advisory panel for the Javits Center

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

The Freitag shop in Zurich by spillmann.echsle - made entirely from freight containers

http://www.freitag.ch/___shops/zurich/pictures/shopbilder_ZH.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Savage!

Love the Roger Lee.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link

There are so many pretty buildings on this thread.

Are there fewer interesting or good-looking things being built today than 30 years ago?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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The Langston Hughes house is no more, caek. It's a shame about the Farnsworth House; some good (and awesomely lol and wtf) ideas in that solutions list though. Someone explain "reverse aquarium" plz.

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Shulman doc?

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link

http://deconarch.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/visual-acoustics-the-modernism-of-julius-shulman-a-documentary-film/

Won the audience award at Austin last month.

― caek, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link

I kinda like "The Cloud, Dubai."

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link

I have been enjoying you delicious links recently, roxy!

― caek, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh thanks, I don't even know what's on there. Haw.

I kinda started an architecture blog, so most of it is stuff I plan to blog about, I guess.

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link

http://theskyscraperblog.blogspot.com/

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link

you really like architecture

a reverse aquarium presumably has water not on the inside but on the outside

― conrad, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link

thanks, i really do like it, but i don't know much about it/have never formally studied it, is i think my approach is pretty "natural" (i.e. uninformed)

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link

and yes i realize that, but i mean, "to rise out of the ground"?! this will be very tough

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link

is so

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link

Roxy, will throw your blog in my bookmarks. I am now over two years into a grad degree in arch. and I am still a layperson in so many ways - doesn't stop me from all my Flickr ramblings...so I say go for it and just keep soaking up information on stuff that interests you.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link

thx, casino!

if you don't mind me asking, is your job arch.-related? if so, what is it?

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link

I pay the bills as a teaching assistant here in the archiprogram, so yeah. Over the summer I was interning at a local firm - that's pretty much the extent of my experience in the field. (My undergrad was in women's studies and polisci.)

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link

you are the awesomest!

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Hahha, thanks, if only my studio professors thought so!

(This quarter is with WORKac, who among other things did this summer's playful and charming garden at PSOne. They are smart but it is hard, as always.)

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link

So I guess they are architects I am thinking about...I was going to hold off linking them till I finished scanning my photos...oops.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link

gosh, there's so much ON that website

love the main pic

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link

wait wait wait.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/3012113596_f89b40bd01.jpg
this makes no sense

― rent, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Love that Abalos and Herreros upthread. I think this...
http://www.herrerosarquitectos.com/HA_P3_IMs/10_07_CasaDeCampo/orden/CdC_001.jpg
...is nice, Herreros solo I think.

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link

this makes no sense
― rent, Wednesday, November 26, 2008 6:28 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

Doc C, that shot is a very good attempt at showing Hollein's work, which always looks pretty dull in photos but, at its best, is a unique spatial delight!

― jed_, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link

This quarter is with WORKac, who among other things did this summer's playful and charming garden at PSOne.

loved this.

― jed_, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link

re: P.F.1 - Yeah, it was great - particularly in light of the kind of stuff that typically wins. They seem to feel that the committee or jury or whoever realized they were getting really tired of atmospheric projects. "We could have won last year, but not ten years ago." It was refreshing to me as a living example of Dutch-ness here on our shores (they both worked at OMA) by architects young enough that you could imagine "hey, that could be me!" So that's always going to be encouraging. But I also loved how much it was filled in with fun little gimmicks and gizmos - the periscope, the audio and video of working farms, the chicken coop...it was cool.

re: Hollein - thanks Jed! It's tough to get it in photos b/c the material palette seems so generically "70s museum"-y, but he makes a lot of spatial complexity out of seemingly simple moves.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/12/12/arts/26111909.JPG

I. M. Pei in the New York Times. Slideshow.

http://www.medaloffreedom.com/IeohMingPei3.jpg

“Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something,” he said in an interview. “There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.”

― hyggeligt, Monday, 15 December 2008 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link

still <3 pei

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Monday, 15 December 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Gawd almighty I love this thread as it loads!

The best picture of this little house by Terunobu Fujimori is in the new Taschen book so you'll have to make do with a pic from the website as I can't find it online.
http://www.taschen.com/media/images/480/page_mi_architecture_now_6_04_0807211121_id_161946.jpg
A book full of good things.

― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 2 January 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Another one by Fujimori...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/238/521614297_9882c1bfcd.jpg?v=0

― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 2 January 2009 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link

To give the photographer their due ('cos it's a nice shot) here's a link to the orignal photo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76991993@N00/521614297/

― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 2 January 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Herzog & de Meuron strike again - I don't think we've covered 40 Bond Street on here.... Thread is enormous so I am scared to load it and check.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/3158434490_21b50a3220.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/3158448332_70e9f7c999.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/3157660519_c38b46811b.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 January 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link

update your bookmarks, if you do that sort of thing:

10(+) MORE architects i have been thinking about
10(+) MORE architects i have been thinking about

― jed_, Friday, 2 January 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link

Anarchitect have launched the (so far) fantastic image feed SpaceInvading.

One for Proposed buildings thread here:

http://www.spaceinvading.com/bookmarklet/Images/resized/3112081230770282061108_162012.jpg

― hyggeligt, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link

SpaceInvading is a great link - thanks hyggeligt!

― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link

oh yeah, incidentally - there's a new thread just above your last post.

― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link

10(+) MORE architects i have been thinking about

― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link

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