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UNITÉ IN BERLIN

The Unités d'habitation are among the most famous works of Le Corbusier. As part of a larger and more radical approach, these huge housing units have influenced the development of residential projects around the world in the decades after their construction.

Le Corbusier's proposal for Berlin includes 530 apartments distributed in 17 levels . However, they are accessed only through 9 "streets" which are actually quite wide corridors, much wider than those of a common residential building, where residents would supposedly enjoy social interaction.

This is because the homes are duplex, that is to say, a two-story apartment, and have internal stairs, enjoying more spaciousness than many of the apartments today.

Each house also has separate balconies, forming a grid than can be seen from the exterior. This allows light to enter, but protects the inside of excessive solar radiation.

Le Corbusier intended to express the individuality of each department

through series of color tones applied in the large white canvas which is

the building's facade

LE CORBUSIER: UNITÉ D'HABITATION IN BERLIN

UNITÉ D'HABITATION IN BERLIN

Kimbell Art Museum / Louis Kahn

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, hosts a small but

excellent art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions,

educational programs and an extensive research library.

Its initial artwork came from the private collection of

Kay and Velma Kimbell, who also provided funds for

a new building to house it.

The building was designed by renowned architect Louis I.

Kahn and is widely recognized as one of the most significant works of architecture of recent

times. It is especially noted for the wash of silvery natural light across its vaulted gallery

ceilings

Kimbell Art Museum / Louis Kahn

Kimbell Art Museum / Louis Kahn

1902 Born in Guadalajara. Barragán is brought up in his family's house there and their country estate in Jalisco.

1919 Studies engineering in Guadalajara, then switches to architecture.

1924 Travels through southern Europe before settling in Paris in 1925. Visits the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs there.

1926 Works for several years with his architect brother, Juan Jose, in Guadalajara mostly on family homes.

1931 Spends three months in New York where he befriends the artist, José Clemente Orozco. Returns to Paris and meets Le Corbusier and landscape architect, Ferdinand Bac.

1935 Moves to Mexico City after four frustrating years in Guadalajara.

1940 Over the next five years, Barragán plans and designs seven gardens including one for his own house on calle Francisco Ramirez.

1945 Plans a new development in El Pedegral, a lavafield outside Mexico City: highly influential in architectural circles, but commercially unsuccessful.

1952 Returns to Guadalajara to build a house for his friend, Dr Arriola.

1954 Begins a four year project to build the Tlálpan Convent, a masterly example of his use of colour and light.

1957 Designs the Torri Satélite, a cluster of towers on a traffic intersection in Mexico City.

1966 Starts work on the Folke Egerstrom House and Stables with the horse pond and fountain.

1975 After a fallow period in Mexico, a book by the architect, Emilio Ambasz, restores Barragán's international reputation.

1977 Exhibition of Barragán's work at MoMA, New York.

1980 Awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize for Architecture.

1988 Luis Barragán dies in Mexico City and is b

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James Stirling

James Frazer Stirling (22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992)

was a Scottish architect. Among critics and architects alike he is generally acknowledged to be

one of the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 20th century.

His career began as one of a number of young architects who, from the 1950s onwards,

questioned and subverted the compositional and theoretical precepts of the first Modern

Movement. Stirling's development of an agitated, mannered reinterpretation of those

precepts – much influenced by his friend and teacher, the important architectural theorist

and urbanist Colin Rowe – introduced an eclectic spirit that allowed him to plunder the

whole sweep of architectural history as a source of compositional inspiration, from ancient

Rome and the Baroque, to the many manifestations of the modern period, from Frank Lloyd

Wright to Alvar Aalto. His success lay in his ability to incorporate these encyclopaedic

references subtly, within a decisive architecture of strong, confident gestures that aimed to

remake urban form. For these reasons, it can be said that in his time, Stirling's architecture a

rebellion against conformity. He caused annoyance in conventional circles, who lost no

opportunity to attack his work and led him to seek opportunities outside the UK.

Stirling worked in partnership with James Gowan from 1956 to 1963, then with Michael

Wilford from 1971 until 1992

James Stirling

adolf loos chicago tribune tower

Though unsucessful, Loos's competition design, made in 1922 for the new offices of the Chicago

Tribune newspaper, has become iconic. His proposal was for a giant Doric column made of

black granite would have stood in the centre of Chicago, a city he knew from his travels. He

was one of 263 architects from across the world who entered the open architectural

competition, which was won by architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood with their

neo-Gothic design. Loos defended his design in the press, arguing that it was the only

response to the ever-changing fashions in architecture. The Doric column, he argued, was a

distinctive design with a long history

adolf loos chicago tribune tower

The New York Five

Richard Meier

Richard Meier is an American architect, whose

rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white

The New York Five

Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman is an American architect.

Eisenman's professional work is often

referred to as formalist, deconstructive,

late avant-garde, late or high modernist

The New York Five

Michael Graves

Michael Graves is an American architect.

Identified as one of The New York Five, Graves has become a household name

with his designs for domestic products sold at Target stores in the United

States. Graves was born in Indianapolis, Indiana

The New York Five

Charles Gwathmey

Charles Gwathmey was an American architect. He was a principal at

Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, as well as one of the five

architects identified as The New York Five in 1969

The New York Five

John Hejduk

John Quentin Hejduk, was an American architect,

artist and educator who spent much of his life in New York City, USA

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Bruce goff- Baringer house

Abraham Lincoln