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1950’s decade Architecture built and unbuilt projects (1950 – 1959)
Brutalist Architecture | Postmodernism | Critical regionalism | Modern architecture | Organic Architecture
In 1955 Jørn Utzon completed the design of the Middelboe House in Holte, Denmark. The residence was built only a year before embarking on his career-defining commission for the Sydney…
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Completed in 1963, La Ricarda, or Casa Gomis designed by Spanish architect Antoni Bonet i Castellana is one of the critical midcentury buildings in Spain. Located by the Mediterranean Sea…
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Completed in 1955, the “Iglesia de la Medalla Milagrosa,” or Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church, was designed by Felix Candela in a neighborhood of Mexico City surrounded primarily…
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In 1952 Jorn Utzon completed his first building in Helsingør in Denmark’s northern Zealand. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, this one-story home was built for Utzon and his family. With no windows…
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The Marine City projects by Kiyonori Kikutake designed between 1958 and 1963 are the first and most influential proposals to build ‘Megastructures’ into the sea after the dissolution of C.I.A.M….
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The Seagram Building on Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958. The building’s particular conception and construction were…
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The Wayfarers Chapel was designed by Lloyd Wright, son of the pioneering American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the late ’40s and was built in 1951. The architect conceived the…
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Casa de Vidro in Morumbi, São Paulo was designed by Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi in 1950. Lina Bo Bardi devoted her working life, most of it spent in…
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The National Museum of Western Art designed by Le Corbusier was the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The Museum is located in the museum…
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During the 50’s a new architectural concept was developed by Yona Friedman in collaboration with the group GEAM “Groupe d’étude d’architecture mobile”. In 1958 the Hungarian-Israeli architect published a manifesto…
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