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post updated March 5, 2022
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e-architect select the best and most interesting examples of American Architecture. We cover completed American buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions, design competitions and architects across the United States of America.
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Major US Buildings
USA Architecture arranged alphabetically:
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel, Florida
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright Architect
photo © Robin Hill
Florida Southern College
This is the largest single-site collection of the architects work in the world: known collectively as Child of the Sun, there are 12 structures.
Aqua Tower, Chicago, Illinois
Design: Studio Gang Architects
picture : Studio Gang Architects
New Chicago Skyscraper
This is an 82-story mixed-use high-rise building that includes a hotel, apartments, condominiums, parking and offices. The terraces of the building are contoured all the way up producing a strong sculptural effect: they inflect based on criteria such as the solar shading, view, size and type of dwelling.
Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
Design: Mies van der Rohe architect
photo © gm+ad architects
Farnsworth House
World-famous 20th Century architecture – a classic Modernist house.
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California
Design: Richard Meier & Partners
image © Alice McRae
Getty Center Building
Major architecture statement by one of the key American architects of the latter part of the 20th Century, still active in the 21st century. This large-scale project was critically acclaimed upon completion, located just north of LA.
Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Washington State
Design: Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA
photo : Philippe Ruault
Seattle Public Library
The architects state “The library stands exposed as outdated and moralistic at the moment that it has become the last repository of the free and the public. Our ambition is to redefine the library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store.”
Smithsonian Museum Courtyard, Washington, D.C.
Design: Foster & Partners
photo : Nigel Young / Foster + Partners
Smithsonian Institute
The former United States Patent Building was rescued from demolition in 1958 by President Eisenhower, who transferred it to the Smithsonian Institution. The enclosure of the building’s grand central courtyard is the key move here, providing a massive, airy indoor space.
US Building Projects
US Architecture, alphabetical:
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, northern California
Studio Daniel Libeskind, architects
photograph © Andrew McRae
Contemporary Jewish Museum Building
Crystal Cathedral, Los Angeles, California
Philip Johnson with John Burgee
picture © Andrew McRae
Crystal Cathedral Building
COR Building, Miami, Florida
Oppenheim Architecture + Design
picture : dbox
COR Condominium Miami : cor tower
GRAM – Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Design: wHY architecture
photo : Chris Barrett@Hedrich Blessing
GRAM Michigan
Museum Plaza, Louisville
REX, architects
picture : PRNewsFoto/Museum Plaza
Louisville skyscraper design
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Design: Steven Holl Architects
image : Andy Ryan
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Extension
Perot Museum of Nature & Science, Texas
Design: Morphosis
image from architect firm
Perot Museum of Nature & Science
Spaceport America, New Mexico
Foster + Partners
picture : Foster + Partners
Spaceport New Mexico
University of Iowa building, Iowa City
Design: Steven Holl Architects
picture © Andy Ryans
University of Iowa Building
Utah Museum of Natural History
Ennead Architects
photo © Stuart Ruckman
Utah Museum of Natural History
ViILA NM, New York
Design: UNStudio
photo : Christian Richters
ViILA NM New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Herzog & de Meuron with HGA, Inc.
photo : Paul Warchol
Walker Art Center
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, southern California
Gehry Partners, architects
photo © Andrew McRae
Walt Disney Concert Hall Building
Winspear Opera House, Dallas, Texas
Foster + Partners
photo : Iwan Baan
Winspear Opera House
More American Architecture online soon
Location: United States of America
Frank Lloyd Wright house – design by Frank Lloyd Wright in New Hampshire
American Housing : key buildings + designs
Frank Gehry – Famous American architect
American Building Types – alphabetical
American Concert Hall Architecture
American Convention Center Designs
American Memorial Architecture
American Railway Station Designs
American College Building
USA Architect Office : Richard Meier & Partners, Architects
American Architecture Conference
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