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Late and Alternative Modernisms
Late Modernisms Jorn Utzon, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia, 1957-73 Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion House project, 1928Buckminster Fuller, U.S. Pavilion at Expo „67 New Monumentality Louis Kahn, Richards Medical Research Building, Philadelphia PA, 1957-61 Louis Kahn, Sher-e-Banglanagar (National Assembly), Dacca, Bangladesh, 1962-74 Brutalism
Alternative Modernisms Team X Metabolism megastructures Kenzo Tange, Tokyo Bay Project Archigram, Plug-In City Constant, New Babylon
Felix Candela, Los Manantiales Restaurant, Xochimilco, Mexico DF, Mexico, 1957
Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, 1943-59
Eero Saarinen, TWA Terminal, New York NY, 1959-62
Jorn Utzon, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia, 1957-73
Jorn Utzon, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia, 1957-73
Harrison & Abramovitz, Empire State Plaza, Albany NY, 1965-79
Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion House (project), 1928 Dymaxion = dynamic maximum
Fuller, “One-Town World,” 1928
Fuller, “What the world wants, and how to pay for it using military expenditures,” 1960s
Fuller, Dymaxion Dwelling Machine prototype, Wichita, Kansas, 1945
Fuller, Geodesic dome structure, developed 1950
Geodesic troop deployment units, Radomes (radar domes), and Distant Early Warning Line, 1950s-60s
Drop City, Colorado, 1960s
Counterculture “dome homes”
Fuller, United States Pavilion, Expo â€&#x;67 Montreal, Canada, 1967
USSR Pavilion, M.V. Posokhin with A.A. Mdnoyants and A.N. Kondretlev Cold War rivalry
John Collins, “That Expo Architecture,” 1967
Louis Kahn, Adler House, Philadelphia PA, 1954-55
Louis Kahn, Jewish Community Center (project), Trenton NJ, 1954-59 plan and structural module plan “servant” and “served” spaces
Louis Kahn, First Unitarian Church, Rochester NY, 1961
Louis Kahn, Richards Medical Research Building, Philadelphia PA, 1957-61
Louis Kahn, Richards Medical Research Building, Philadelphia PA, 1957-61
Kahn, sketch of San Gimignano, Italy
Louis Kahn and Anne Tyng City Tower for Philadelphia (project) late 1950s
Inspired in part by triangulated geodesic and spaceframe structures of Buckminster Fuller
Louis Kahn, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, 1962
Louis Kahn, Sher-e-Banglanagar (National Assembly), Dacca, Bangladesh, 1962-74
Louis Kahn, Sher-e-Banglanagar (National Assembly), Dacca, Bangladesh, 1962-74
Brutalism Alison and Peter Smithson, Hunstanton School, Hunstanton, Norfolk, UK, 1954
Brutalism Paul Rudolph, Yale Art & Architecture Building, New Haven CT, 1958-63
Brutalism Paul Rudolph, Yale Art & Architecture Building, New Haven CT, 1958-63
Brutalism Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles, Boston City Hall, Boston MA, 1962-69
Team X (“Team Ten”) Younger generation of CIAM members developing alternative modernist approaches 1953-68 Alison & Peter Smithson, “Urban Reidentification” urban concept, 1959 with Corbusian “à redent” housing at left rhizome = a plant that propagates by spreading root nodes
Team X
Aldo van Eyck, Burgerweeshuis Orphanage, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1957-60 Dutch Structuralism
Piet Blom & Joop van Stigt, Village of Children (project), 1962
Team X
Herman Herzberger, Centraal Beheer Insurance Building, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, 1972 with Fez medina rooftop view
Team X Candilis, Josic & Woods, Free University, Berlin, Germany, 1964-79 mat building typology
Japanese Metabolism Kenzo Tange, Tokyo Bay Project, Tokyo, Japan, 1960
Kisho Kurakawa, Nagakin Capsule Hotel, Osaka, Japan, 1972
Japanese Metabolism Arata Isozaki, Joint Core Stem System (project), 1960 Kiyonori Kikutake, City in the Air (project), 195961
Moshe Safdie, Habitat housing complex, Montreal, Canada, 1967
Yona Friedman, “L‟Urbanisme Spatiale” urban concept, 1960-62
Archigram, Plug-in City (project), 1964
Archigram, Instant City (project), 1969-70
Piano and Rogers, Pompidou Center, Paris, 1972-76
Constant (Victor Nieuwenhuys), New Babylon (project), 1956-1971 Homo ludens: man at play
Situationist International dĂŠrive = drift psychogeography