10(+) architects I have been thinking about

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I like Ando, but I feel like he did Morimoto NY for the money even more than Morimoto did! His Fort Worth museum looks really stunning, when he works with water it keeps his concrete fetish from being too boring.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Can anyone of you more informed-sounding people suggest a good general book on modern architecture? I'm forever ooing and ahing at nice new buildings whenever I'm in big cities but I tend not to know who made them or have any idea where the ideas come from.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

If you're looking for a general overview/reference guide to contemporary architecture, Taschen's "ARCHITECTURE NOW! 4" (obv. should have been called "NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL ARCHITECTURE! VOLUME 4") is a great value and very wide ranging. Not much on the theory side of things but most contemporary buildings are much better in photos than in theory.

If you really want something to bow your coffee table legs there's the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks. Good suggestions. Bank balance will dictate that I go for the former.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

For sheer history & information about movements and progression, Kenneth Frampton's Modern Architecture: A Critical History is a good start, and used quite often in university classes.

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

more please!

― ^@^ (map), Friday, 13 October 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

imre makovecz

stephenaeum, pázmány péter katolikus egyetem, piliscsaba, hungary

http://www.architects.hu/mesterek/makovecz/images/15_01.jpg
http://www.architects.hu/mesterek/makovecz/images/15_04.jpg
http://www.architects.hu/mesterek/makovecz/images/15_05.jpg
http://www.makovecz.hu/img/pict/274.jpg
http://www.architects.hu/mesterek/makovecz/images/15_07.jpg
http://www.makovecz.hu/img/main.jpg
http://www.makovecz.hu/img/pict/273.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow! That's pretty impressive.

Where was that non-Euclidean architecture thread?

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

you or you and some others always type "non-Euclidean"

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

That is the mathematical term for geometry based on curved surfaces.

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

in the world

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

What a fun bulding! What is it exactly?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

it's an auditorium at a university to the north of budapest

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i hate to say, i don't like it. i do like the drawing tho.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks RJG.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

LOVE the Stephenaeum! I'll have to check out this Makovecz. I'm big into the idea of taking the current wave of eccentric blobby forms and trying to tie it down with some sort of rule-based classical system...in turn undermining both the rules AND the eccentricity. Much more readable and much more fun than Gehry.

Not yet mentioned in this thread is Erick Van Egeraat, who I don't like very much, but I'm writing a paper about him so I've certainly been thinking about him. Web isn't providing great images but hey...

http://www.pixelcreation.fr/diaporama/architecture_in/10.jpg
City Hall, Aalphen aan der Rijn

http://www.vividvormgeving.nl/foto%27s/egeraat04.jpg
Popstage - Concert venue in Breda

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

The Fuksas retrospective at the Maxxi in Rome is pretty goddamn great.

http://www.floornature.com/worldaround/img_magazine/mag396_05_popup.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

this place:

http://www.lot-ek.com/Images/jm-01.jpg

is currently for sale:

http://www.curbed.com/archives/2007/02/01/thats_rather_uh_something.php

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry, rent...and it's only 7 grand a month!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Bjarke Ingels Group (with the unforgettable URL of Big.Dk). As inescapably post-Rem as MVRDV, with a similar bent towards massive urban projects with very clear macro-geometry (and just-as-clear aberrations within that geometry). And a lot of whimsy. And absolutely gorgeous models. You'll have to click the link, I can't seem to put my hands on any decent linkable jpgs.

Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow spoke last week at my school and I gotta say I thought a lot of their stuff was pretty groovy - their research work focuses on tiny, crammed-in lots in Japan and their built work tends to be an answer to that context....

http://www.bow-wow.jp/profile_e/2006/HouseTower/HouseTower01.jpg
http://www.bow-wow.jp/profile_e/2006/HouseTower/HouseTower03.jpg
House Tower

(Missing from the website as far as I can tell are a number of completed projects she presented at the lecture, including the delightful "Furni-Cycle" - a set of bicycles with stuff welded to the back of them, such that if you get all the bikes together they can back up towards each other and create an outdoor cafe table-n-chairs arrangement....)

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 February 2007 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link

it got announced last week that seattle's getting a norman foster. v v excited.

― jergincito, Sunday, 25 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

There was a big DEDICATION for the new city hall downtown. I asked the guy with the comically oversized scissors if Frank Gehry designed it. He said he didn't know. Unfunny joke wasted!

― Abbott, Sunday, 25 February 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

it would probably be quicker to list the cities without a major foster building in progress.

― jed_, Sunday, 25 February 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

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morphosis in san francisco

― RJG, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link

oh yeah, just round the corner, that is.

― admrl, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link

I like it

― RJG, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link

hey what's up morphosis... or should I say LEBBEUS WOODS GONE FEDERAL

― I DIED, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link

say what you like, i don't see the similarity at all.

i like Morphosis a whole lot. i'm not sure about that one (from the pics).

― jed_, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Really not a fan of morphosis. All the sci-fi elements seem so arbitrary and their Cal-Trans building in LA just looks like some kind of evil fortress.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link

they aren't the most descriptive angles

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you like zaha hadid

― RJG, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― lfam, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link

re may be a fire escape system

― RJG, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link

"new" Le Corbusier - the Chapel of Saint-Pierre at Firminy, recently completed after 40 years on the drawing board. apparently sound in the chapel has an 11 second echo/reverb if you stand in certain parts of it. the punctured holes in the concrete walls are in the pattern of the constellation of Orion.

http://www.ville-firminy.fr/data/fichiers/pages/Image/Patrimoine/eglise1.jpg

http://www.taisei.co.jp/galerie/gallery/images/07042301.jpg

http://www.taisei.co.jp/galerie/gallery/images/07042302.jpg

http://wexarts.org/db/ed/1922_ArchInterruptus02_383a.jpg

http://www.erba-valence.fr/wpdesign/wp-content/plafond_firminy.jpg

http://accel15.mettre-put-idata.over-blog.com/0/12/68/34/saint-etienne/corbu__le_corbusier_inauguration_firminy_1_-_13.jpg

http://www.vitruvius.com.br/arquitextos/arq000/imagens/381_04.jpg

― jed_, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Love it!

― admrl, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link

the two interior pics which include the altar are mind bendingly gorgeous.

― jed_, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link

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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― 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

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