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From Lausanne, Switzerland, Trevor Patt is a distinguished architectural photographer known for his exceptional ability to capture the essence and beauty of various architectural structures.
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Leon Battista Alberti’s project for the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini recast a 13th-century Franciscan church as a classicizing mausoleum for Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta. Rather than demolish the Gothic nave, Alberti…
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Kolumba in Cologne sets a new perimeter volume around the ruins of St. Kolumba and the post-war Madonna in the Ruins chapel, binding fragment and city into a single urban…
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A low, monolithic extension at Helvetiaplatz reorganizes the Bernisches Historisches Museum’s public interface while preserving the historic building’s silhouette. The addition concentrates the program near grade, features semi-subterranean galleries, establishes…
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Eero Saarinen’s MIT Chapel in Cambridge is a compact, cylindrical sanctuary set within a shallow moat and paired compositionally with the adjacent Kresge Auditorium. Completed in 1955, the project organizes…
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Tadao Ando’s Conference Pavilion on the Vitra Campus is a compact meeting facility set within a grove at the campus edge in Weil am Rhein. The low-lying ensemble of fair-faced…
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Defining Postmodern Architecture Postmodern architecture is best understood less as a single “style” than as a broad critical stance toward the orthodoxies of late modernism: an effort to restore meaning,…
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Het Schip in Amsterdam’s Spaarndammerbuurt consolidates a difficult, wedge-shaped block into a continuous social housing ensemble. Designed by Michel de Klerk for the cooperative Eigen Haard and completed around 1920,…
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Few architectural movements provoke such strong and contradictory reactions as Brutalism. To some, it represents the cold, authoritarian face of modern architecture: heavy, grey, and hostile. To others, it is…
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Completed in 1931, Hilversum Town Hall (Raadhuis Hilversum) consolidates the municipality’s dispersed functions into a carefully ordered ensemble. Willem Marinus Dudok set a tall, slender tower against a composition of…
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Frank Gehry’s multi-decade masterplan for Loyola Law School consolidates discrete academic buildings around an elevated pedestrian esplanade near downtown Los Angeles. The ensemble organizes a network of courts, stairs, bridges,…
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The Zollverein Coal Mine Complex in Essen condenses a century of industrial logic into a legible architectural and territorial ensemble, then reframes it for public use through surgical interventions. The…
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The Cuban National Schools of Art emerged at a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. Commissioned in 1961, just after the Revolution, the schools were conceived under the direct encouragement…
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Located at 1,500 meters on the ridge of Mount Tamaro in southern Switzerland, the Chapel of Santa Maria degli Angeli embodies Mario Botta’s rigorous pursuit of sacred space through geometry,…
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In the remote Alpine valley of Giornico, in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino, is La Congiunta, a concrete monolith by Peter Märkli completed in 1992. Commissioned as a permanent…
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