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Bertrand Goldberg Marina City Towers Futuristic and integrated parking Mid-century Modernism |
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World Fair Icon Space Needle Mid-century Modernism |
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World Fair Icon Atomium Mid-century Modernism |
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Eero Saarinen LAX Theme Building Cylinder gives the illusion of floating Mid-century Modernism |
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Eero Saarinen Gateway Arch Mid-century Modernism |
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Oscar Niemeyer National Congress Building - Brasilia Optimistic Modernism of pre-war Europe and post-war America Mid-century Modernism |
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Oscar Niemeyer National Congress Building Optimistic Modernism of pre-war Europe and post-war America Mid-century Modernism |
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Oscar Niemeyer Cathedral de Brasilia Modernized flying buttresses Mid-century Modernism |
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Oscar Niemeyer MAC Niteroi (Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum) Fluid ramp to hovering form Mid-century Modernism |
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Frank Lloyd Wright Marin County Civic Center "hovering spaceships" Mid-century Modernism |
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Frank Lloyd Wright Guggenheim Museum, NYC Spiral form Mid-century Modernism/Post-war expressionism |
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Charles and Ray Eames Eames House Kit-of-steel elements for quick assembly Mid-century Modernism |
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Pierre Koenig Bailey House Exposed steel framing with steel and glass infill Mid-century Modernism |
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George Nelson Coconut Chair Molded fiberglass and foam Mid-century Modernism |
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Charles and Ray Eames La Chaise bimorphic fiberglass shell Mid-century Modernism |
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Hans Olsen Fried Egg Chair Mid-century Modernism |
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Armet and Davis Norm's la Cienega Mid-century Modernism |
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Robert Roloff Oklahoma State Capitol Bank "Bank of the future" Mid-century Modernism |
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Verner Panton Panton Chair One-piece molded plastic Mid-century Modernism |
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Hans Wegner Shell Chair Mid-century Modernism |
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William Pereira Union '76 Gas Station Floating illusion Mid-century Modernism/Post-war Expressionism |
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Superstudio The Continuous Monument Negative Utopianism |
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Archigram The Walking City Dense concentration of people collectively roaming the earth Radical Urbanism/Utopianism |
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Walter Jonas Intrapolis Small footprint with secondary facade altered by people Megacity Vision/Utopianism |
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Gerard Grandval Les Choux Utopianism |
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Buckminster Fuller
US Pavillion, Expo '67 steel geodesic dome with acrylic bubble cladding Utopianism |
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Moshe SafdieHabitat '67Each apartment has a balcony on the roof of the apartment below it
Utopianism |
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Osaka Expo - 1970 Showcase for Metabolist ideas Utopianism |
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Big Roof Kenzo Tange Plug-in city model Utopianism |
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Osaka Expo - 1970 Kisho Kurokawa Toshiba-IHI Pavilion |
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Kisho Kurokawa Nagakin Capsule Tower 2 cores with tangible units Utopianism |
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Kisho Kurokawa Nagakin Capsule Tower Complete environment for one person Utopianism |
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Kenzo Tange (1913 - 2005) Fuji Broadcasting Center Utopianism |
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Paolo Soleri Arcosanti Utopianism |
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Vincent Callebaut Modern environmental megastructure visionary Utopianism |
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Le Corbusier Unite de Habitation de Marseilles Contains everything necessary for living: apartments, shopping, and a school Interior floors staggered for maximum conservation of space Brutalism |
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Le Corbusier Monastery of La Tourette concrete fins and balconies; light cannons Brutalism |
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Le Corbusier Carpenter Center Circulation ramp through building; Roof garden/plaza on curved form Brutalism |
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Le Corbusier Mill Owner's Association Building Thick bris-soleil wall with trays for planting Brutalism |
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Le Corbusier Shodhan House (Villa Shodhan) Brutalism |
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Le Corbusier Chandigargh HIgh court - Palace of Justice |
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Le Corbusier Chandigarh Secretariat Building |
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Le Corbusier Palace of the Assembly |
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Le Corbusier Palace of the Assembly |
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Le Corbusier Chandingarh - Palace of the Assembly Expression + Brutalism |
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Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Boston City Hall Built to withstand attack Brick of plaza comes up into lower ground forms under building Brutalism |
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William Pereira Geisel Library Built on a hill; Brutalism |
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Paul Rudolph Yale Art & Architecture Building Concrete cast in corrugated framework then bush-hammered by hand afterwards; contrast between concrete finishes Brutalism |
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Marcel Breuer Pirelli Tire Building |
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Paul Rudolph Yale Art &Architecture Building Brutalism |
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Marcel Breuer Whitney Museum granite facade; cantilevered floors Brutalism |
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William Pereira Trans America Pyramid Precast facade panels mixed with crushed quartz Brutalism |
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Gordon Bunshaft - SOM Beinecke Library Frame shaped to create dynamic shadow effects; Concrete frame with infill panels of translucent marble Brutalism |
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I. M. Pei Dallas City Hall Light wells into internal courtyard Brutalism |
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Marcel Breuer Whitney Museum - interior Brutalism |
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Kenzo Tange Yoyogi Olympic Stadium and Swimming Arena Hung roof; dynamic curves and spaces Expressionism |
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Frei Otto & Gunther Behnisch Munich Olympic Pavilions covered with acrylic for heat prevention Structural Expressionism |
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Eero Saarinen Hung catenary roof from sloping concrete columns Dulles Airport |
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Eero Saarinen TWA Terminal - interior Expressionism |
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Eero Saarinen TWA Terminal "soaring 'bird' of flowing concrete" |
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Bertrand Goldberg Prentice Women's Hospital dynamic canitlever Expressionism |
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Pier Luigi Nervi Palace of Sport Expressionism |
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Pier Luigi Nervi Palace of Labor 16 Independent concrete columns with steel radial beams |
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SOM -Skidmore Owens & Merrill US Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel |
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Le Corbusier Notre Dame du Haut Ronchamp Pilgrimage chapel on the crest of the last hill in a range; provides internal chapel and external pulpit for large celebrations; Concrete membrane roof with masonry walls, covered in spray concrete |
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Notre Dame du Haut Ronchamp crack of light separates roof from wall, , exposes internal pilotis |
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Le Corbusier Saint-Pierre de Firminy Light cannons for colored, directed light varied small lights create constellation; strip of colored openings spiral around form Expressionism |
