The document provides information on several modernist architects and their works from the early 20th century. It describes buildings by Pier Luigi Nervi, Eduardo Torroja, Oscar Niemeyer, Luis Barragán, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gunnar Asplund, Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, Jørn Utzon, and Louis Kahn from Europe, South America, and North America. The works highlighted include aircraft hangars, churches, government buildings, houses, libraries, museums, and other structures that exemplified modern architectural styles of the time period.
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1. Class 11A
Modernism in Central and South America
Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian, 1891-1979
Aircraft Hangar
Orvieto, Italy 1936
Nervi: Palazzetto dello Sport
Rome, 1956
Nervi:
Palazzetto dello Sport
Eduardo Torroja
Spanish, 1899-1961
La Zarzuela Racecourse
Madrid, 1935
Oscar Niemeyer
2. Brazilian, 1907-2012
Ministry of Education
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1935-45
(with Le Corbusier and Lucio Costa)
Niemeyer: Church of St. Francis of Assisi
Pampulha, Brazil 1943
Niemeyer: Church of St. Francis
Niemeyer: United Nations, NYC 1945
(with Le Corbusier and Lucio Costa, finished by Wallace
Harrison)
Niemeyer: Brasilia, 1956-60
(City plan by Lucio Costa)
Niemeyer and Costa: Brasilia
Brasilia
3. Niemeyer: Brasilia
National Congress Building
Niemeyer: Brasilia
Presidential Palace
Niemeyer: Brasilia
Cathedral of Brasilia
Niemeyer: Cathedral of Brasilia
Luis Barragán
Mexican, 1902-1988
House for the Architect
Mexico City, 1947
Barragán: Casa Barragán
Barragán:
Casa Barragán
4. Barragán: Casa Gilardi
Mexico City, 1975
Barragán: Casa Gilardi
Barragán: Casa Gilardi
Next: Non-Western Modernism
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Class 11B
Non-Western Modernism
Eladio Dieste
Uruguayan, 1917-2000
Christ the Worker Church
Atlantida, Uruguay 1958
5. Modernism in Japan
Kunio Maekawa
Japanese, 1905-1986
Nippon Sogo Bank
Tokyo 1952
Maekawa:
Harumi Flats
(Apartments)
Tokyo, 1958
Kenzo Tange
Japanese, 1913-2005
Peace Memorial and Museum
Hiroshima, 1949-55
Tange: Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Tange: Hiroshima Peace Memorial
6. Tange: Yoyogi National Gymasium
Tokyo 1961
Tange:
Yoyogi National Gymasium
Tange: Yoyogi National Gymasium
Tange: St. Mary’s Cathedral
Tokyo 1964
Tange: St. Mary’s Cathedral
Tange:
Yamanashi Press and Broadcast Center
Kofu, Japan 1961
7. Arata Isozaki
Japanese, b. 1931
“Metabolist”
City in the Air, 1963
Metabolists:
“Unlike the architecture of the past, contemporary architecture
must be changeable, movable and capable of meeting the
changing requirements of the contemporary age. In order to
reflect reality, what is needed is not a fixed, static function, but
rather one which is capable of undergoing metabolic changes.
We must stop thinking in terms of function and form, and thin
instead on terms of space and changeable function.”
Next: Scandinavian Modernism
Class 12A
Scandinavian Modernism
Southern Europe
Northern Europe
Gunnar Asplund
Swedish, 1885-1940
8. “Nordic Classicism”
Stockholm Public Library, 1928
Asplund: Stockholm Public Library
Asplund:
Gothenberg Courthouse addition, 1914-1937
Asplund: Gothenberg Courthouse Addition
Eliel Saarinen
Finnish, 1873-1950
National Museum of Finland
Helsinki, 1904
Eliel Saarinen
Helsinki Railway Station, 1909
Eliel Saarinen
Helsinki Railway Station
9. Eliel Saarinen:
Chicago Tribune Competition, 1922
Second Place
Eliel Saarinen
Kleinhans Music Hall
Buffalo, N.Y. 1940
(with son Eero Saarinen)
Eliel and Eero Saarinen
Crow Island School
Winnetka, Illinois (with Perkins & Will)
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-American, 1910-1961
Whenever I include an architect’s photo, it means, “Pay
attention! This guy’s good!”
Saarinen (Eero Saarinen, that is)
Gateway Arch, St. Louis
Designed 1947, built 1963-65
10. Saarinen: Gateway Arch
Saarinen: Miller House
Columbus, Indiana 1953
Saarinen: Miller House
Saarinen: Ingalls Rink
Yale Campus, New Haven 1953
Saarinen: Ingalls Rink
Saarinen: MIT buildings
Cambridge, Mass. 1955
Saarinen: Kresge Auditorium
11. Saarinen: Kresge Auditorium
Saarinen: Kresge Auditorium
Saarinen: MIT Chapel
Saarinen: MIT Chapel
Saarinen: MIT Chapel
Saarinen: General Motors Technical Center
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 1956
Saarinen:
GM Technical Center
Saarinen:
12. GM Technical Center
Saarinen: Dulles Airport
Fairfax, Virginia 1958
Saarinen: Dulles Airport
Saarinen: Dulles Airport
Saarinen: Dulles Airport
Saarinen: TWA Terminal
JFK Airport, Queens, NY 1960
Saarinen: TWA Terminal
Saarinen: TWA Terminal
13. Saarinen: John Deere Headquarters
Moline, Illinois 1960
Saarinen: John Deere HQ
Saarinen:
CBS Building
New York, NY 1961
Saarinen: Stiles and Morse Colleges
Yale campus, New Haven 1960
Saarinen: Stiles and Morse Colleges
Alvar Aalto
Finnish, 1898-1976
Turun Sanomat Building
Turku, Finland 1929
(MOMA Exhibition, 1932)
14. Aalto:
Viipuri Public Library
Viipuri, Finland 1927
Aalto: Baker House Dormitory at MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 1949
Aalto: Baker House
Aalto: Baker House
Aalto: Helsinki Institute of Technology
Helsinki, Finland 1949
Aalto: Helsinki Institute of Technology
Aalto: Säynätsalo Town Hall
Säynätsalo, Finland 1952
15. Aalto: Säynätsalo Town Hall
Aalto: Säynätsalo Town Hall
Jørn Utzon
Danish, 1918-2008
Kingo Houses
Elsinore, Denmark 1956
Utzon: Kingo Houses
Utzon: Sydney Opera House
Sydney, Australia 1957
Utzon: Sydney Opera House
16. Utzon: Sydney Opera House
Next:
Louis Kahn
Class 12B
Louis Kahn
Louis I. Kahn
Born 1901 in Estonia
Emigrated to the U.S. 1905
Design Critic at Yale 1947-57
Professor of Architecture
at the University of Pennsylvania
1957-74
Died 1974 in New York City
Early work:
Oser House
Elkins Park, Penn. 1940
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, 1951
17. Yale University
Art Gallery
Yale University
Art Gallery
Richards Medical Research Laboratories
U.Penn, Philadelphia, 1958
Richards Medical Research Labs
Richards Medical Research Labs
First Unitarian Church
Rochester, N.Y. 1959
18. Salk Institute
La Jolla, Calif. 1960
Salk Institute
Salk Institute
Indian Institute of Management
Ahmadabad, India 1962
Indian Institute of Management
National Assembly Building
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1962-75
National Assembly Building, Dhaka
19. National Assembly Building, Dhaka
National Assembly Building, Dhaka
National Assembly Building, Dhaka
Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Exeter, N.H. 1965
Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Phillips Exeter Academy Library
20. Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth, Tex. 1966
Kimbell Art Museum
Kimbell Art Museum
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, 1969
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for
British Art
Yale Center for British Art
21. Next:
Domestic Wright
Class 13A
Domestic Wright
Wright houses
(from previous discussions)
Wright houses
(from previous discussions)
Dana-Thomas House
Springfield, Illinois 1902
Martin House
Buffalo, N.Y. 1902
Frank Lloyd Wright
Career spans from 1887 to 1959
72 years
22. Hickox House
Kankakee, Illinois 1900
Thomas House
Oak Park, Illinois 1901
Willits House
Highland Park, Illinois, 1901
Willits House
The
Prairie
Style
Huertley House
Oak Park, Illinois 1903
24. Robie House
Robie House
Robie House
Taliesin (his own home), 1911
Little House “Northolme”
Minnesota, 1911
Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Allen House
Wichita, Kansas 1917
Hollyhock House
25. Hollywood, 1916
Fukuhara House
Japan, 1918
Destroyed by earthquake 1923
Yamamura House
Tokyo, 1918
Yamamura House
Millard House “La Miniatura”
Pasadena, Calif. 1922
Freeman House
Hollywood 1923
Freeman House
26. Jones House “Westhope”
Tulsa, Oklahoma 1929
“Westhope”
Willey House
Minneapolis, 1934
Willey House
Fallingwater, 1936
First Jacobs House
Madison, Wisconsin 1936
Hanna House
27. on the campus of Stanford University, Calif., 1937
Hanna House “Honeycomb”
Hanna House
Hanna House
Taliesin West
near Scottsdale, Arizona 1937
Wright’s Home and Studio
Johnson Wax Headquarters
Johnson House “Wingspread”
Wind Point, Wisconsin 1938
Wingspread
29. “The Solar Hemicyclo”
Second
Jacobs House
Usonian Houses
Not just houses, of course
Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco 1948
Morris Gift Shop
Price Tower
Bartlesville, Oklahoma 1950
30. Unitarian Meeting House
Shorewood Hills, Minnesota 1950
Unitarian Meeting House
Beth Sholom Synagogue
Elkins Park, Penn. 1954
Greek Orthodox Church
Wauwausota, Minn. 1956
Greek Orthodox Church
Guggenheim Museum
NYC, completed 1959
Guggenheim Museum