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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 largely driven by the vision of then-twentysomething Phyllis Lambert, daughter of Seagram’s founder Samuel Bronfman.
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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 design as a natural sanctuary set in the midst of a forest. The Wayfarers Chapel is listed in the National Register of Historic Places being one of the foremost examples…
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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 Brazil, to promoting the social and cultural potential of architecture and design.
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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 and zoo complex in Ueno Park in Taito, central Tokyo. The museum is also known by the English acronym NMWA (National Museum of Western Art).
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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 called Architecture Mobile that fostered a new type of free citizen able to conquer the space through huge ‘superstructures’ over the existing cities. Friedman envisioned that the increase of leisure time…
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Sky House was the house designed and built by the Japanese architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928-2011) for himself in 1958. The project still stands out as a landmark to his long lasting architectural convictions.
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Torre Velasca. View from the Duomo The Velasca Tower in Milan has been one of the most discussed buildings of the end of the 50s decade. It represented a great icon of ideological transition between those who defended a strict modernism (benchmark the International Style) and the application of technology in construction, and those who on the other hand, were opened to…
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