-The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom
-Established: 1973
-Architect: Colin St John Wilson
-Architectural style: Brutalist architecture
The British Library
-The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas
-The building was designed by renowned architect Louis I. Kahn
-the art galleries are located on the upper floor of the museum to allow access to natural light
-The landscaping has been described as "Kahn's most elegant built example of landscape planning" by Philadelphia landscape architect George Patton.
Kimbell Art Museum
-S. R. Crown Hall is the home of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago .
-Designed by the German-born Modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
-Crown Hall is considered architecturally significant because Mies van der Rohe refined the basic steel and glass construction style
-While designing Crown Hall, Mies stayed true to his famous words, "less is more." Mies once described his creation as being "almost nothing." With WWII and the Great Depression leaving a large break in construction
S. R. Crown Hall
-Book The Architecture of the City is a seminal book of urban design theory by the Italian architect Aldo Rossi published in Padova in 1966. The book marks the shift from the urban doctrines of modernism to a rediscovery of the traditional European city.
-In this book, Rossi criticizes the lack of understanding of the city in current architectural practice.
-He argues that a city must be studied and valued as something constructed over time; of particular interest are urban artifacts that withstand the passage of time
Book The Architecture of the City
- Peter Eiseman
- Michael Graves
- Richard Meier
- Charles Gwathmey
- John Hejduk
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