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Arts > Architecture > 20th, 21st century > FR, UK, USA
Ms. Gins and her husband, a protégé of Marcel Duchamp, shared a philosophy of art and life they called "Reversible Destiny."
One of its manifestations is this house in East Hampton, their first in the United States, called the Bioscleave House.
Photograph: Eric Striffler for The New York Times
Madeline Arakawa Gins, Visionary Architect, Dies at 72 NYT 13 January 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/
David Adjaye
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/02/
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/aug/02/
Paul Williams and Alan Stanton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct/21/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/oct/20/
Renzo Piano
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jan/30/
Jean Nouvel FR
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/
Nicholas Grimshaw UK
https://www.theguardian.com/arts/greatbuildings/
Will Alsop
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/aug/11/
Norman Foster
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/23/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/may/23/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/13/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1691783,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/742087.stm
https://www.theguardian.com/arts/pictures/0,8542,1376126,00.html
https://www.theguardian.com/gall/0,8542,710859,00.html
Santiago Calatrava
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/
William Krisel USA
architect who helped bring modernism to the masses
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/21/
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/21/
Richard Rogers UK 1938-2021
Parkside, Wimbledon, 1968-69
Where it all began. One of Rogers’ first projects was a house for his parents in Wimbledon, and it embodies many of the ideas about prefabrication and industrial manufacture that he would go on to develop. Its welded steel frame was made from standard sections to be easily demounted, while the walls can be moved around. Ironically, the building’s grade II* listed status (awarded in 2013) means it will likely never be dismantled or reconfigured.
Photograph: Arcaid Images/Alamy
Eternal innovator: Richard Rogers' 10 best buildings – in pictures From a glass home with movable walls to an airport so stunning you’ll want to be delayed, Richard Rogers, who has died aged 88, turned architecture inside-out. We pick his
finest creations
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/richard-rogers
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/aug/27/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jul/15/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jul/14/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jul/13/
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/aug/13/
Georgie Wolton UK 1934-2021 (née Cheesman)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/08/
Richard Gilbert Scott UK 1923-2017
Architect best known for designing Roman Catholic churches and his work on the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/12/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/12/
Zaha Hadid Iraq / UK 1950-2016
Iraqi-born British architect whose soaring structures left a mark on skylines and imaginations around the world and in the process reshaped architecture for the modern age http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/arts/design/zaha-hadid-architect-dies.html
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/03/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/01/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/
Donald Allen Wexler USA 1926-2015
architect whose innovative steel houses and soaring glass-fronted terminal at the Palm Springs International Airport helped make Palm Springs, Calif., a showcase for midcentury modernism
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/
Francis Freile Fleetwood Chile 1946-2015
Francis Fleetwood (..) drew on the work of Stanford White to transform the architectural aesthetic of the Hamptons on Long Island from the relatively modest, minimalist beach houses that reflected postwar modernism to the shingled Victorian behemoths that evoke the Gilded Age
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/nyregion/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/nyregion/
Michael Graves USA 1934-2015
one of the most prominent and prolific American architects of the latter 20th century, (he) designed more than 350 buildings around the world but was perhaps best known for his teakettle and pepper mill
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/
Judith Deena Hochberg USA 1923-2014
At the 1974 national convention of the American Institute of Architects in San Francisco, Judith Edelman presented data showing that 1.2 percent of registered architects in the United States were women.
Only coal miners and steelworkers, she suggested, counted a lower proportion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/
Randall Paul Stout USA 1958-2014
Kathryn Findlay UK 1953-2014
Award-winning architect whose unconventional designs ranged from space-age homes to the Orbit tower for the London Olympic Park http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan/15/kathryn-findlay
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan/15/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/apr/02/
Madeline Helen Gins USA 1941-2014
poet-turned-painter-turned-architect who publicly forswore mortality — and whose buildings, by her own account, were designed to pre-empt death for those living in them —
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/
Walter Smith Pierce USA 1920-2013
The 45-acre Peacock Farm, built from 1952 to 1958, shared the subdivision tradition of taking its name from the previous identity of the site; peacocks really had been raised there.
But it was far from traditional.
Floor plans were open, wide expanses of glass substituted for walls, roofs were asymmetrical and only slightly sloped, and basements were raised higher than in most houses, allowing in more light and elevating their role.
The houses, built on wooded and often hilly lots, were tailored to accommodate the natural setting rather than conquer it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/
Balthazar Kora USA 1926-2013
one of the leading architectural photographers in the period after World War II when Modernist design remade the American landscape
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/01/25/
Pedro Eduardo Guerrero USA 1917-2012
former art school dropout who showed up in the dusty Arizona driveway of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939, boldly declared himself a photographer and then spent the next half-century working closely with him, capturing his modernist architecture on film
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/
Lebbeus Woods USA 1940-2012
architect whose works were rarely built but who influenced colleagues and students with defiantly imaginative drawings and installations that questioned convention and commercialism http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/arts/lebbeus-woods-unconventional-architect-dies-at-72.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/
John MacLane Johansen USA 1916-2012
celebrated Modernist architect and the last surviving member of the Harvard Five, a group that made New Canaan, Conn., a hotbed of architectural experimentation in the 1950s and ’60s
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/
Anne Griswold Tyng USA 1920-2011
architectural theorist who worked with the celebrated modern architect Louis I. Kahn and had a daughter with him
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/
Gene Summers USA 1928-2011
architect who helped execute Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s designs for the Seagram Building in Manhattan and other Modernist landmarks, then went on to design the McCormick Place convention center in Chicago
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/
Alfred Anton Boeke USA 1922-2011
The Pomo Indians, who once inhabited the land, were long gone the day in 1962 when Al Boeke flew in a small plane over the pristine beaches, steep bluffs, wind-swept woods and sheep-grazed meadows along the Pacific Coast in Sonoma County, Calif., about 150 miles north of San Francisco.
What Mr. Boeke saw, in his mind’s eye, was a residential community that would blend in with that 10-mile stretch, with its jagged rocks, redwoods, pines and Monterey cypresses.
That vision led to Sea Ranch, a development that set a standard for environmental preservation. It now has about 1,700 homes, including one owned by Mr. Boeke
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/us/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/us/
John Bancroft UK 1928-2011
Sometimes a single building becomes the focus for an architect's endeavours and reputation.
For John Bancroft, (...) that building was Pimlico school.
Not only did Bancroft design and see this striking landmark of the 1960s through to completion, he also waged an unremitting and lonely struggle for more than a decade to save his cherished creation from destruction, to no ultimate avail. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/20/john-bancroft-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/20/
Edgar A. Tafel USA 1912-2011
architect who was among the best known of Frank Lloyd Wright’s many apprentices
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As an apprentice in the mid- and late-1930s, he worked on two of Wright’s most important commissions:
Fallingwater, the serenely cantilevered house over the Bear Run creek in rural Pennsylvania; and the Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wis., with its fantastic forest of mushroomlike columns. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/arts/design/25tafel.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/arts/design/25tafel.html
John Carl Warnecke USA 1919-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/
Bruce J. Graham USA 1925-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/
Charles Gwathmey USA 1938-2009
Charles Gwathmey
Photograph: William E. Sauro The New York Times
Architect’s Modernist Legacy Crosses the Hudson The Appraisal By MATT A.V. CHABAN NYT JAN. 4, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/
architect who turned his love of Modernism and passion for geometrical complexity into a series of compelling houses and sometimes controversial public buildings http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/arts/design/05gwathmey.html
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/
Kenneth George Browne UK 1917-2009
Architect and editor with ambitious ideas for humanising the urban environment http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/09/obituary-kenneth-browne
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/09/
Rodney Gordon UK 1933-2008
Dramatic, sculptural and enormous, the brutalist buildings designed by Rodney Gordon are among the most iconic of the second half of the 20th century. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/sep/10/architecture
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/sep/10/
Pierre Koenig USA 1925-2004
Pierre Koenig: Bailey House, Los Angeles, 1958
The Bailey House was the 21st home in the Case Study House programme, an initiative by Arts & Architecture magazine to promote the best low-cost domestic design.
Hailed by the magazine as embodying “some of the cleanest and most immaculate thinking in [its] development”, Koenig’s design used an exposed steel frame, welded with precision.
As the architect said: “Steel is only as good as its detailing. In order to make exposed steel acceptable in the living room it must be so well detailed that the joining connections are imperceptible.”
Photograph: Darren Bradley
Giants of modernist architecture – in pictures G Wednesday 19 July 2017 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jul/19/
pioneering architect whose Modernist vision went unloved in California http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/13/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/13/
Philip Johnson USA 1906-2005
Philip Johnson The Guardian p. 25 29 January 2005
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/29/
flamboyant postmodern architect whose career was marred by a flirtation with nazism
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/29/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/21/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/dec/13/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/29/
Richard John Robert Feilden UK 1950-2005
Architect who promoted environmentally friendly design and urban regeneration http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/jan/12/urbandesign.artsobituaries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/jan/12/
Cedric John Price UK 1934-2003
Hugely creative architect ahead of his time in promoting themes of lifelong learning and brownfield regeneration http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/aug/15/urbandesign.artsobituaries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/aug/15/
Peter Smithson UK 1923-2003
architect whose modernist buildings were ahead of their time http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/mar/08/urbandesign.artsobituaries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/mar/08/
Alison Smithson UK 1928-1993
Peter Smithson UK 1923- 2003
The brutalist style that Peter and Alison Smithson pioneered was radical, practical and beautiful.
To their enemies – among whom Prince Charles holds the megaphone – their uncompromising concrete boxes are the greatest sins that have ever been committed in a planning office.
This war broke out as soon as the Smithsons' first building was completed in 1954.
At the time, the blunt rectangularity of Hunstanton school, with all its glass and steel, was profoundly shocking.
And worse (or better) was to come, in the form of the Economist building and then the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate, both in London.
Though the couple's idealism was obvious, they assiduously researched the habits of the people they designed for.
Indeed, they saw their residential work as the compassionate reaction to Le Corbusier's huge towers.
What they were building, as the doomed phrase had it, would be "streets in the sky".
Sadly, practice did not follow theory.
Alison died in 1993, and Peter in 2003, but both lived long enough to see themselves ridiculed, especially for the failure of Robin Hood Gardens to realise their expectations.
To many, their career now stands as a parable of the way that naive optimism can condemn the poor to squalor.
Yet to others, including Richard Rogers, the story that Robin Hood Gardens tells is of a brilliant design being neglected and mismanaged.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/11/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/oct/26/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/11/
Bertrand Goldberg USA 1913-1997
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/
Paul Rudolph USA 1918-1997
Paul Rudolph: Bass Residence, Fort Worth, Texas, 1976
A shifting stack of floating horizontal planes, this nest of overlapping volumes and cantilevered slabs was commissioned by Anne and Sid Bass in 1970 to accommodate their own home and a spacious gallery for their collection of contemporary art.
Sited on a hillside, its four storeys are broken down into 12 different levels, the interlocking volumes defined by white steel frames and porcelain-enamelled aluminium panels, with the living areas projecting out to take in panoramic views over the landscape.
Photograph: Grant Mudford
Giants of modernist architecture – in pictures G Wednesday 19 July 2017 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jul/19/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John Edward Lautner USA 1911-1994
The James Goldstein house, designed by John Lautner
Photograph: Jeff Green LACMA
The glories of the Big Lebowski house – in pictures G Friday 19 February 2016 20.34 GMT
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/feb/19/
architect who created Chemosphere, a flying saucer-like house in the Hollywood Hills, and other well-known contemporary homes
(...)
Mr. Lautner was born and brought up in Marquette, Mich., and his mentor was Frank Lloyd Wright.
He was a Wright apprentice for six years, and moved to Los Angeles in 1939 to supervise the construction of Sturges House by Wright.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/27
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/27/
Paul Revere Williams USA 1894-1980
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Germany, USA 1886-1969
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/
Francis Matcham UK 1854-1920
(Matcham) is estimated to have built or rebuilt more than 150 theatres including the Blackpool Tower Ballroom and the London Palladium
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2020/may/17/
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2020/may/17/
Charles Follen McKim USA 1847-1909
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/
Basil Urwin Spence UK 1907-1976
Basil Spence colour pastel perspective of the "Southern Motors" filling station, Causewayside, Edinburgh SC426813 http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/image/src/203/SC426813 http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/image-details.html?img=203&ref=SC426813
https://webarchive.nrscotland.gov.uk/
Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray Ireland 1878-1976
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jun/30/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jun/30/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/jul/21/
Louis Isadore Kahn USA 1901-1974
(born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky)
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jul/13/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/feb/26/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/feb/26/
Marion Mahony USA 1871-1961
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/
Frank Lloyd Wright USA 1867-1959
Charles Rennie Mackintosh UK 1868-1928
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/feb/25/
George Gilbert Scott UK 1811-1878
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/12/
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