Le Corbusier Architect: Corb Architecture
Le Corbusier, architect, Paris – Italian independent artist Stefano Meneghetti from Venice, Italy, with his team, makes the album Cité Radieuse as a tribute to Corb, innovative architect and urban designer
Frank Lloyd Wright Architect: Buildings
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect news – Taliesin West desert laboratory, Arizona, USA, closes for public access until the end of March.
Mies van der Rohe Architect: Modern Architecture
Mies van der Rohe architect news – key architecture + designs by this celebrated architect: discussion about furniture from Philip Johnson’s 1930 New York apartment ; Catholic Pastoral Center building in Des Moines, USA, will undergo an extensive $10m renovation.
Oscar Niemeyer Architect, Brazil Architecture
Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect – South American buildings, photos, Brazilian architecture – Oscar Niemeyer architect, Brasilia, South American building designs.
Walter Gropius Architect, 20th Century Architecture
Walter Gropius Architect – key buildings, Bauhaus founder, Modernist, Photos – 20th Century American architecture, Modern design projects Germany such as Werkbund Exhibition – office & factory, Cologne.
Louis Kahn Architect: Architecture Design
Louis Kahn book, out of print for decades: “The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn” to be reissued. The architect explored the ways in which architecture could improve lives and create harmony
Philip Johnson Architect: Buildings, Designs
The first residence designed by this architect isn’t protected, and could face the wrecking ball. Owners have listed it for $1 million, hoping a preservation-minded buyer will step up. Architect Philip Johnson won the Pritzker Prize in 1979 and was famous for promoting the Postmodernist style.
St Peter’s Seminary Cardross Building
Award-winning London architects Carmody Groarke and landscape architect Dan Pearson Studio appointed to rework derelict St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross, an intriguing Modernist building
La Cité Radieuse Marseille, Le Corbusier
Deeply interested in architecture, music, and design, Stefano Meneghetti and his friends wanted to name this album La Citè Radieuse out of admiration for Le Corbusier, innovative architect, designer and urban planner
Skidmore Owings Merrill: SOM Architects
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architects news – Renewal by HBRA Architects, Chicago, of The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of SOM in 1963. The building is a Modernist masterpiece.
Paul Rudolph Architect: Modern US Architecture
Paul Rudolph’s undiscovered buildings: Eric Wolff has been researching the Modern architect’s Asian works. Scholars refer to them as “seven completed buildings including a couple of villas”
Eero Saarinen Architect, Modern Buildings
Eero Saarinen architect – buildings photo, 20th C architecture, American designer, New York TWA Terminal – Eero Saarinen designs in the USA
Marcel Breuer Architect: 20th Century Architecture
Marcel Breuer architect, USA – Modern architecture, 20th Century US buildings designs, New York – 20thC French & American buildings projects
Sigurd Lewerentz, 20th Century Swedish Architect
Sigurd Lewerentz architect – Modern Swedish buildings – 20th C architecture in Sweden, Chapel of the Resurrection, Woodland Cemetery, Enskede, Stockholm
RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture 2021
The Royal Institute of British Architects is pleased to announce that Sir David Adjaye will receive the 2021 Royal Gold Medal, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture.
RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture 2020
RIBA Royal Gold Medal recipient 2021 to be announced on 30 September. Previous winners were Dublin-based practice Grafton Architects. The UK’s highest honour for architecture is run by the Royal Institute of British Architects
Le Corbusier’s early drawings. 1902-1916
‘Le Corbusier’s early drawings. 1902-1916’ exhibition at Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio: extensive review features more than eighty previously-unpublished original drawings from Swiss collections
Denys Lasdun Architect, England: Architecture
Denys Lasdun Architect, England – one of leading architects of 1960s – buildings photos, Modern architecture, Cambridge colleges designs, UK