This site has an image Zaha Hadid’s proposed design for the (ppossibly) Guggenheim Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.
You could click on the link to see the building, or you can just imagine the product of a drunken menage a trois between a cruise ship, a Japanese sports car and Chicago’s Bean.
Yeah, maybe you should just […]
2001: A Space Odyssey turned 40 years old on April 2. That’s the date it premiered in Washington D.C.
As I said last month, this is the masterpiece of modern art, an opinion possibly confirmed by Roger Ebert writing in 1997:
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in 2001: A Space Odyssey but […]
My first favorite architect, thanks to my 3rd Grade Social Studies textbook section on Brasilia, was Oscar Niemeyer (hey, it was the 1970s).
NIcolai Ourousoff, architecture critic for the ??Times?, has an article on the career the Brazilian architect.
In BrasÃlia, a city that rose out of a savanna in the span of four years, he created […]
The New Acropolis Museum was opened to journalists recently, and the architecture critics for the NY Times and Time made the trip to Athens. The old Acropolis Study Center was one of my favorite small museums in Athens, and it is sad to see it bigafied, but the new museum is jaw-droppngly awesome. (Take a […]
The Guardian had put up a page for the second of its “Great Modern Buildings” — the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. J.G. Ballard wrote the essay on Gehry’s famous building. Ballard might be the perfect writer to capture the essence of the shiny, undulating, alien masterpiece.
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is the world’s largest […]
On Saturday, October 6, the British paper the Guardian began a 2-week, 12-building survey of modern architecture, “Great Modern Buildings”. The dead tree edition of the paper will have poster-sized pull-outs for each (oh, to live in England) and the website will feature an interactive guide to five of the buildings (for us luckless colonials […]
I grew up in the 1970s, so I’ve always had an odd interest in Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri’s utopian community in the Arizona desert — Soleri was once a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. (I’ve always thought that Peter Beagle’s famous quote, “the Sixties were no fouler a decade than the Fifties — they merely reaped […]
Terry Teachout’s Saturday column in the Wall Street Journal examines midcentruy modern and why Americans are comfortable with modernism so many spheres of the arts, but not in architecture. One of his conclusions:
That’s what’s wrong with the more extreme forms of modern architecture: Too often they tell you how to live, instead of helping you […]
This article (”Razing Arizona”) from The Architectural Record looks that the threat to Arizona’s modern architecture. The next battle for preservationists is the Valley National Bank (now Chase Bank) branch in the Phoenix neighborhood of Arcadia. The 1967 structure was designed by Frank M. Henry, who still teaches at Taliesin West.
Two modern bank branches were […]