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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.
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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…
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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.
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The Nordic Pavilion for the Venice Biennale (1958-1962), designed by Sverre Fehn to represent Sweden, Finland, and Norway, is a project that deals with Nordic identity. In his work, Fehn makes an analogy between building and storytelling, and between materials and language. In this article we also included photographs of the Norwegian Pavilion for the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition that…
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