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The iconographic Raventos house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Bonet Castellana, perhaps best known for designing the iconic B.K.F butterfly chair with Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, was built between 1973 and 1974 and is one of the latest domestic proposals of the architect.
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The Fisac House designed by the Spanish architect Miguel Fisac in 1978, is located in Almagro, Ciudad Real. The project turned an old oil mill into the architect’s home with exquisite care for popular architecture. In the facade, Fisac introduced elements of its flexible formwork in the large entrance gate and on the balcony of the upper floor.
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The design of John Lautner’s Arango House, also called Marbrisa House, is inspired by the natural features of the site: the ocean and the sky. The house was commissioned in 1970 by Jeronimo Arango as a weekend home for his family and in 1973 the architect built a 25,000-square-foot home that seemed to float above the water. The client had…
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The U House was designed by the famous Japanese architect Toyo Ito in 1976 for his older sister, who had just lost her husband to cancer. Built in the centre of Tokyo, it was demolished in 1997.
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Located at the Emporda in Giron well-known Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill designed a summer house for his parents. Built on the ruins of an old country home, the Family House is organized around a brightly red central courtyard that captures different views of the surroundings.
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The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, better known as IIM Ahmedabad or simply IIMA, is a management institute located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The old campus was designed by Louis Kahn who was an exponent of exposed-brick architecture, with the help of B.V. Doshi & Anant Raje. The most distinctive features of the plan are the numerous arches and square…
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The Gardens of the Ministry of the Army in Brasilia was a collaborations between Roberto Burle Max and Oscar Niemeyer. The garden was meticulously color-coded: The finished gardens reproduced, in plots of vegetation and crushed stone, or painted pavement, the precise colors, as well as shapes, of his high-color gouache plan studies.
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The Princesa building was completed in 1975 by Fernando Higueras and Antonio Miró. Originally built for military retirees, it is now the inner-city home of many design-oriented entrepreneurs and young families.
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The San Cataldo Metropolitan Cemetery designed by Aldo Rossi integrates a designed built by the architect Cesare Costa between 1858 and 1876 with a very modern building designed by the architect in 1971. Rossi was a man appreciated internationally for his Architecture theories and his desire was to make a building that reflected his social perspective and theories.
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Bagsvaerd Churchis a Lutheran church designed by Jørn Utzon completed in 1976. The project is a masterpiece of contemporary church architecture, characterized by a white concrete ceiling straddled with softly rounded vaulting that modulates the bright interior lighting.
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Built in 1979 by Japanese Architect Togo Murano, the Yatsugatake Art Museum has a unique design with a dome shape like a space port determined by the building materials and the construction method.
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In 1970, Kenzo Tange designed the Olivetti Technical Centre and Warehouse in Yokohama, Tokyo. An example of Japanese Brutalist Architecture.
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