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Frei Otto
German Pavillion, Montreal 1967
"From the mid 1960's on, Frei Otto recieved an increasing number of commissions for Large-scale projects, which allowed him to prove the actual advantages of tensile structures. Large Spans can be bridged more economically by tensile structures than by any other system. The reason is not only that most materials have a greater strength under tension than in compression, but also that the length of tensile members can be increased considerably without increasing their volume proportionally"
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Graham Stevens
Desert Cloud by Graham Stevens.
Experimental Architecture
"This immense silver cushion (12 x 10 x 2 meters) converts the rays absorbed by the transparent upper membrane into low-frequency radiation thanks to the lower part of the air sleeves, composed of a reflective silver membrane. In other words, the air inside heats up and expands, the structure inflates and floats autonomously. Held by ropes, Desert Cloud floats like a shimmering kite, thus producing a shadow zone in the middle of the desert. It is a free structure that requires no energy resources . Stevens demonstrated how it could even condense and capture water, managing to create ice in a clear night desert sky. The experience was filmed in 1974 in the Kuwaiti desert in the midst of the oil crisis, the artist using the documentary form to explain his approach"
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Michael Webb
Cushicle and Suitaloon by Michael Webb.
"During the sixties, the architecture of Archigram produced a revolution within the radical and utopian proposals that started to appear after the Second World War. This group of architects were deeply influenced by Pop Art, Science Fiction, comics, and new technology transformations that were produced from the Cold War. Archigram proposed a new relation between the individual and the city based on large movable infrastructures that could be adapted to an environment in constant transformation. This large scale allowed Archigram to propose radical speculations with a high degree of fantasy regarding our relationship to the city."
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Fernando Higueras
Palacio de Exposiciones y Congreos, Madrid. 1964
Archive for Space
Archive for Space in collaboration with Peter Carroll, Stefan Laxness and Peter Molloy attempt to unveil the specific relationships between the area and its people as a way of understanding this particular rural condition. What has been uncovered is a complex and conflicted dynamic with the landscape shaped by thousands of years of culture, politics and an almost constant movement of people to and from the area.
Each contributor has developed their own line of enquiry based on their area of expertise and interest. Through conversations with various locals it is evident the cultural implications of the change from subsistence living on the land to a policy-led push towards urbanisation. Other interviews have revealed how the landscape has changed highlighting the reorganisation of the rural landscape as a result of increased urbanisation. Investigations on rural infrastructure particularly water reveals the important and continuing core role it has in the shaping of architecture, landscape and policy of the area. Lastly though photography we reveal overarching themes that display the rural land as capital for the population both inside and outside Connemara.
The work displayed here is part of an ongoing investigation into the rural condition of Connemara. Through this project we intend to spark reflection of what the rural condition of Connemara is and its future could be. How can these distinct rural conditions persist and how can they continue to develop with modern economic, environmental, population and political changes?
Archive for Space would like to thank: The Arts Council of Ireland, Architecture at the Edge, Laney Mannion, Peter Carroll, Peter Molloy, Stefan Laxness, DK Oysters, John O’Halloran, Jasper O’Connor and Rosie McGurran for their contributions to the project.
Ricardo Bofill
THE PYRAMID
1976
Location: Spanish-French border
Societe Des Autouroutes Du Sud-Est de La France
"In 1976, RBTA was commissioned by the Société des Autouroutes du Sud-Est de la France to build this monument on the Catalan highway border between Spain and France.The monument at the top of the pyramid pay homage to Catalonia; the four stripes being the motives of its shield and flag, it also symbolizes and materializes international cooperation and fraternity."
SOM
Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in 1975, the 51-story Olympic Tower’s Modernist dark glass façade reflects, and dwarfs, the neo-Gothic ornament of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue.
© Bo Parker, 1978
Mies Van der Rohe
It was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich as the German national pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. Built from glass, steel and different kinds of marble, the Pavilion was conceived to accommodate the official reception presided over by Kings of Spain Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenia along with the German authorities.
Photographs by Maciek Jeżyk
Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr.
John Sowden House, also known as the "Jaws House" or the "Franklin House", is a residence built in 1926 in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California. Built by Lloyd Wright.
Masatoshi Izumi
STONE HOUSE by Masatoshi Izumi and Isamu Noguchi Built in 1972 in Mure, Japan
Monta Mozuna Kiko
Kiko (Monta) Mozuna /// Kagami-no-ma (Between Mirrors) (Yosue House) /// Niiza, Saitama, Japan /// 1978-79
Jo Noero
South African architect Jo Noero - House for Dr. Theresa Nxumalo 'House Nxumalo' in Alexandra township Johannesburg, SA - 1988
Acoustic Sound Mirror
The Dungeness mirrors, known colloquially as the "listening ears", consist of three large concrete reflectors built in the 1920s–1930s. Before World War II and the invention of radar, acoustic mirrors were built as early warning devices around the coasts of Great Britain, with the aim of detecting incoming enemy aircraft by the sound of their engines.
Gio Ponti
Gio Ponti - Villa Planchart also known as 'Quinta El Cerrito'- Caracas, Venezuela - 1953-1957
Larabanga Mosque
Mosque in Larabanga, Ghana (1455). Called a "Mud and Stick" mosque, it is an example of Sudanic-Sahelian Architecture that can be found across West Africa.
Jean Francois Zevaco
1960
Thermal Station by Jean Francois Zevaco
Sidi Harazem | Morocco
Julio Volante
Amphitheater "José Ángel Lamas" (Concha Acústica de Colinas de Bello Monte). Architect_Julio Volante. 1954
Troglodyte dwellings
The Berber village Matmata in southern Tunisia is famous for its quaint underground houses and cave dwellings, which are pleasantly cool in summer and comfortably warm in winter.
Peter Zumthor
Zumthor House by Peter Zumthor 2014
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Photography is by Joao Morgado.
A simple countryside chapel in the south of Portugal, designed to function without electricity, heat or running water.
The Capela do Monte, which translates simply as hillside chapel, forms part of the Monte da Charneca complex, a new off-grid holiday retreat that is being constructed in the picturesque landscape of Portugal's Algarve region.
Ushida Findlay
Kathryn Findlay's Soft and Hairy House, 1992-94.
Based in Tsubaka, Japan, also has a bright blue pod that reminds an exotic fungus but is actually a bathroom.
Alberto Ponis
Casa Bak by Alberto Ponis 1968. Sardinia, Italy.
Michele Busiri Vici
Michele Busiri Vici , The church of Stella Maris in Porto Cervo has the
soft lines typical of Michele Busiri Vici's style. Built in the 1960
Chengbundyeh
Chengbundyeh is the main reception hall of chief's palace of Bamil k chiefdom of Bandjoun West Province Cameroon West Africa. This traditional architecture is achieved with carved colums and thatched roof. Also referred to as Fon's palace or King's palace or chefferie. The structure's is nearly 30 meters high.
David Takesue
The Kahn House; Lima, Ohio; 1985
Architectural photography: Robert C. Lautman
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Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey
Graham House, West Vancouver, BC, Canada - 1962 by Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey
Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto, Villa Mairea, 1937-1939, Noormarkku, Finland.
Completion Year: 1941.
Construction System: Plastered Brick Walls, Wood Siding
Alberto Ponis
Studio di Yasmin by Alberto Ponis 1971
Alberto Ponis
Casa Bak by Alberto Ponis 1968
Beneke de Wet
Imgage by Beneke de Wet. Antarctic Research Base.
"Sanae IV (South Africa) Total Length*: 576.44 feet (all three together) Width: 48.6 feet Height: 33.6 feet *This station is comprised of three buildings with slightly different dimensions. The research station of the South African National Antarctic Expedition, completed in 1997, is the oldest of this new generation. But what it lacks in technology it makes up for in location. The base rests dramatically on top of an outcropping, known as a nunatak, some 800 feet high. The void below acts as a subzero maelstrom, sucking in snow and keeping it from burying the station up above. Furthermore, Sanae's position about 100 miles inland, off the ice, and situated on solid rock makes it ideal for sensitive seismological studies and GPS research. Teams of up to 10 scientists, engineers, mechanics, and doctors do 15-month stints perched here. Call it a lab with a view"
Lawrence Halprin
Cascading Falls & Quiet Pools - Keller Fountain Park, Portland - 1970 by landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin
The Takienta (Otammari construction)
"The Koutammakou landscape in north-eastern Togo, which extends into neighbouring Benin, is home to the Batammariba whose remarkable mud tower-houses (Takienta) have come to be seen as a symbol of Togo.
Many of the buildings are two storeys high and those with granaries feature an almost spherical form above a cylindrical base. Some of the buildings have flat roofs, others have conical thatched roofs." They are grouped in villages, which also include ceremonial spaces, springs, rocks and sites reserved for initiation ceremonies.
Eladio Dieste
Eladio Dieste - Terminal Municipal de Ómnibus — 1973 - Salto, Uruguay
Dolmen de Soto
Dolmen de Soto, is an exceptional monumental megalithic architecture in stone and clay in the Iberian Peninsula in Trigueros, Andalucía, Spain dated between 3000 and 2500 B.C., Is one of the most important megalithic monuments in the South of Spain. It was found in 1923. In 1931 it was declared a National Monument. It's 21 meters long and 1.45-3 meters high.
Claude le Goas and Robert Bezou
Claude Le Goas + Robert Bezou, Conservatoire de Montreuil, Montreuil,1976.
Michele Goalard and Albert Marcháis
sculptors Michèle Goalard and Albert Marchais and their work in the Grand Motte project, a new town built from scratch by the Mediterranean Sea. They built a whole environment made of bricks, water and sand, like a huge sculpture for the children to live in. - 1970's
Quasar Khanh
Quasar Khanh,"La Maison de l'Espace ". - 1968
Josep Lluís Sert
The Sert Studio, designed by Josep Lluís Sert for Joan Miró 1954-1956
Robert Venturi
“Mother’s House” – aka the Vanna Venturi House, the ur-post modern building, designed by her son the architect Robert Venturi - completed in 1964.
Venturi wrote his book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) written in parallel to the construction of his mother’s house, together they became a manifesto in which Venturi re-examined and updated the principles of modern culture which, he felt, were exhausted and had been lost to corporate powers
Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle, Maison Dragon, 1973-5
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi - Gardens for IBM headquarters in Armonk, New York - 1964
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Fly’s eye Dome - 1980
by Richard Buckminster Fuller, Fiberglass-reinforced polyester, 38 × 50 × 50ft. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
Aditya Prakash
Neelam cinema - 1950’s by Aditya Prakash under the guidance of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret built in Chandigarh, India
Emilio Ambasz
Emilio Ambasz - Casa de Retiro Espiritual - 1975
Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava, Bodegas Ysios- 2001- laguardia, Spain
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Alfonso Ossorio
Alfonso Ossorio, Swimming Pool, East Hampton, Long Island, 1970
Paul Selinger
In the early twentieth century, Hong Kong was plagued by a problem with street children caused by widespread poverty and a lack of social welfare support. To address this issue, in 1929, the government started to construct the first urban playgrounds for children to spend time in and let off steam.
A much larger experiment was a playscape called Shek Lei Playground. Paul Selinger, an American artist then living in Hong Kong, offered to design a sculptural playground for the government, as he found local playgrounds uninspiring. The proposed playground came into reality in 1969, with financial support from the then Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club. Sculptural playgrounds of this scale have not been seen afterwards in Hong Kong, but local designers have still tried to create interesting playscapes using simpler physical forms ...
Mario Campi, Franco Pessina
Mario Campi, Franco Pessina, Chiesa di Nostra Signora di Fatima, Buseno, Graubünden, Switzerland, 1984-88
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