Tag
American architect Philip Johnson designed in 1969 the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial as a thoughtful piece of art intended for reflection and remembrance. Johnson’s design is a “cenotaph,” or open tomb, that symbolizes the freedom of John F. Kennedy’s spirit.
Continue reading
The Orinda House designed by architect Charles W. Moore for himself in 1962 is located in a valley behind San Francisco. In this project, Moore experimented with very simple means the possibility to recreate a project that could embody references to different moments of architectural history and that would allow an unconventional distribution and articulation of space.
Continue reading
The Bensberg Town Hall was designed in 1962 by Gottfried Böhm and completed in 1969. Thick concrete slabs and seamless glass creates a rationalist base for the tower which rises in layers of spiraling windows towards a blocky crown. Despite its modern language, its color harmonizes with the neighboring town castle to blend with the surroundings.
Continue reading
In 1961, the project by Clorindo Testa, Francisco Bullrich and Alicia Cazzaniga won the design competition to build the Mariano Moreno National Library of the Argentine Republic. The library is named after Mariano Moreno, one of the ideologists of the May Revolution.
Continue reading
The Knights of Columbus Headquarters designed by Kevin Roche and completed in 1969 is characterized by the four emblematic towers in the corners which represent a symbolic gateway to the city.
Continue reading
Designed in 1959 by James Stirling and James Gowan the Engineering Building at Leicester is widely regarded as one of the most architecturally important buildings of its era.
Continue reading
Crawford Manor is a public housing community originally built as an elderly enclave in 1962. It was the first high-rise project for the elderly in New Haven and it is consider to be a Brutalist icon of the Late Modern Movement designed at the height of Paul Rudolph’s career. The building is a 15-story irregularly stacked tower of multiple residential…
Continue reading
Le Corbusier designed Sainte Marie de La Tourette Monastery in 1960 for a Dominican Order priory in a valley near Lyon, France. The Dominican Order convent sinks into the edge of a forest in a small valley and it is one of the greatest works of Modernism produced. Rough concrete stained by time gives an exterior unfamiliar to religious structures.
Continue reading
In 1969, Richard Feigen commissioned the Austrian architect Hans Hollein to redesign an 1887 row house and convert it into a two-story gallery and residence for his own use. The gallery has changing floor levels and ceiling heights and a balcony overlooking the ground floor. The sinuous staircase rail linking the gallery spaces has an ocean liner quality. This nautical theme…
Continue reading
Alejandro de la Sota was a promoter of industrialization of construction in the 1960s; his Maravillas gymnasium of 1961 was the first steel-framed building in Madrid. The buildings of Sota combine geometric rigor with constructive sincerity and a structural boldness of form that still surprises today.
Continue reading