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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.
Kenzo Tange’s 1960 plan for Tokyo was proposed when many cities in the industrial world were experiencing the height of urban sprawl. With a unique insight into the contemporary city’s…
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Crawford Manor is a public housing community built initially as an elderly enclave in 1962. It was the first high-rise project for the elderly in New Haven, and it is…
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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 Richards Medical Research Laboratories project, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, was designed in 1957 by American architect Louis Kahn and is considered a breakthrough in…
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In 1962, the Spanish architect Alejandro de la Sota completed the first steel-framed building in Madrid: the Maravillas School Gymnasium. De la Sota was a promoter of the industrialization of…
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Maki’s Golgi Structures designed in 1968 by Fumihiko Maki was named after Nobel Prize-winner Camillo Golgi, who developed techniques for visualizing nerve cell bodies. The structure proposed by Maki alternates dense urban…
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The Fisher House, also known as the Norman Fisher House, was designed by the architect Louis Kahn and built for Dr. Norman Fisher and his wife, Doris, in 1967 in…
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The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts center in Sydney. Located on the banks of the Sydney Harbour, it is often regarded as one of the world’s most…
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The Saint Theresa Catholic Church, completed in 1968 by American architect William F. Cody is considered one of the architect’s masterworks. Cody was an enthusiastic parishioner of the church and…
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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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