“I pair potentially pleasant domestic interiors rendered in possibly seductive colours with a sure sense of alienation expressed by reductive and non-hierarchical paint application.”… Read More Sandorfalva Series / Zsofia Schweger / 2015-17
“The one story layout made it possible to use the roof area for parking, thus the greatest utilization of space for parking purposes was achieved. Roof parking is made accessible by up and down ramps, each 20’ wide. Entrance to store is in center of roof, thus cutting walking distance from parked cars to a minimum.”… Read More Milliron’s Department Store / Gruen & Krummeck / 1949
“This entourage collection is sourced from advertisements in Progressive Architecture, all from the year 1965. The architectural advertisement is a wider subject, but we offer these cut-out people with only minimal context […] the novice browser of old digitized architecture magazines will, yes, find many drawings and photos of incredible architecture. They will also find scores and scores of automatic door closer advertisements.”… Read More Free Entourage / Progressive Architecture / 1965
“Although Birkerts’ approach as a whole has changed little in his last five years of independent practice, he has reconsidered the matter of symmetry, designing a symmetrical building today ‘only when it is really called for’ […] the nave of the church is enclosed by a three-dimensional composition of planes that incorporates both structural support and sources of daylight.”… Read More University Reformed Church, Ann Arbor / Birkerts & Straub / 1964
José Villagrán was a hyper-functionalist architect crucial in the construction of many public Mexican institutions in the post-Revolutionary decades. This parish church which he designed in 1938 is something of an outlier among all the hospitals. Observe how his constructive pragmatism squares with the spiritual demands of a parish.… Read More Parroquia de San Antonio de Huatusco / José Villagrán / 1964
“This library houses a unique collection of rare books, manuscripts, and journals which record the development of the physical and biological sciences from earliest times […] The building itself is a simple pavilion composed of nine square-bayed reinforced concrete vaults which defined one large interior space. Brick panels fill in the vaults along the north and south.” … Read More Burndy Library / Sherwood, Mills, & Smith Architects / 1964
“For Simmel, the mutual exchange of the passing glance – that contingent, fleeting, Baudelairean moment – can be a vital point of interaction, an expression of togetherness rather than of alienation, of connection rather than separation.” … Read More Physiologie du Flâneur / Louis Huart (with Honoré Daumier) / 1841
“The Port Mahon Lighthouse is a typical example of Chesapeake Bay-style screw-pile lighthouse architecture which was prevalent in the late nineteenth century. The lighthouse was designed according to utilitarian standards and is generally devoid or ornate, expressive features.” … Read More Mahon River Light / Lt. Col. W.A. Jones / 1903
“The project is conceived of as a study in reconstruction. Isolated by water, 24 cubes dimensioned 10’x10’x10’ are organized in 4 rows of 6 cubes each […] The hope is that a maze will amaze by subsuming the architecture of the whole to product.”… Read More American Standard Showroom / Tigerman-McCurry / 1990
The eye is presented with a veritable I-spy of rooms, pipes, gantries, and typically several feet of pre-stressed concrete. See if you can tell the fuel handling machines from primary coolant loops.… Read More Atomic Energy Fragments – 01
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