Late and Alternative Modernisms

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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





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