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The 1960s was a transformational era that brought along the change of thought-paradigm, a rupture with old values, and the creation of new musical, artistic and constructive movements. The architecture was used as an instrument of political and social manifestation, as well as cultural. The 60s was an era full of daring projects based on questioning concepts while searching for new heights and breaking free of the old paradigm.
Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa designed in 1960 the “Agricultural City.” Intended to replace the agricultural towns in Aichi destroyed by the Ise Bay Typhoon in 1959, the structure was to…
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In 1959 architects Alison and Peter Smithson purchased part of the old Upper Lawn Farm and constructed the Upper Lawn Solar Pavilion Folly. Originally intended as a summer house, the…
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Completed in 1963, the Gandhi Memorial Museum was designed by Charles Correa and is located in the Ashram, where the Mahatma lived from 1917 to 1930. Housing his books, letters,…
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Completed in 1960 by modernist architect Barry Berkus, Park Imperial South Residences is a community of 30 units located on a 3.5-acre lot in South Palm Springs. A one-floor plan…
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In 1960, the Salk Institute was commissioned by Jonas Salk, developer of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. Salk selected world-renowned architect Louis I. Kahn to design the research…
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The Geisel Library was designed in the 1960s by architect William Leonard Pereira, famous for its futuristic designs, associated with the space age, including the Trans-American Pyramid in San Francisco. The building’s distinctive…
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Designed in 1960 by Fernando Higueras, the Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute in Madrid (Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural), also known as “La Corona de Espinas” ( The Crown of Thorns), is…
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Designed and built between 1961 and 1964 for the Tokyo Olympics, the National Stadium of Japan, designed by Kenzo Tange, explores and stimulates the creative possibilities of architecture that started…
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In 1963, Danish architect Hans Christian Hansen completed the Ringbo Nursing Home developed under the Danish Welfare State policies when he was the project leader at the Municipal City office…
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The John Ferraro Building, headquarters for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, is an iconic building in the City of Los Angeles. It was designed by the firm…
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In 2011 Canadian architecture firm FABG completed the renovation of the Nun’s Island Gas Station in Quebec, initially designed by Mies van der Rohe, into a civic center for the…
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In the first half of the 1960s, Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck worked on a commission for a sculpture pavilion in the Sonsbeek park to host sculptures of nearly thirty…
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In 1965 Richard Meier completed the Meier House for his parents nestled in a natural setting in Essex Fells. Large glass walls bring the beauty of nature inside blurring the…
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The Bunshaft Residence, sometimes called the Travertine House, was an iconic modernist home designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife on a 2.4-acre lot on the shore…
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