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HENRI LABROUSTE

Portrait photograph of Labrouste in profile.

Born 11 May 1801

Paris

Died 24 June 1875 (aged 74)

Fontainebleau

Resting place Fontainebleau

Nationality French

Occupation Architect

Known for École des Beaux Arts

HENRI LABROUSTE

Biography

Born in Paris, Labrouste entered Collège Sainte-Barbe as a

student in 1809. He was then admitted to the second class in the

Royal School of Beaux Arts to the Lebas-Vaudoyer workshop in

1819. In 1820, he was promoted to the first class. Competing for

the Grand Prix, Labrouste took second place behind the Palais

de Justice by Guillaume-Abel Blouet in 1821. In 1823 he won the

departmental prize, and worked as a lieutenant-inspector (sous-inspecteur) under the direction of Étienne-Hippolyte

Godde during the construction of Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou.

1824 was a turning point in Labrouste's life, as he won the

competition with a design of a Supreme Court of Appeals. In

November he left Paris for Italy, visiting Turin, Milan, Lodi,

Piacenza, Parma, Modena, Bologna, Florence and Arezzo.

HENRI LABROUSTE

UNITE D’HABITATION

KIMBELL ART MUSEUM

KIMBELL ART MUSEUM

JAMES STIRLING ARCHITECT Sir James Frazer Stirling

James Stirling (right) at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Born 22 April 1926

Glasgow

Died 25 June 1992 (aged 66)

London

Awards Alvar Aalto Medal, 1977

RIBA Royal Gold Medal, 1980

Pritzker Prize, 1981

Praemium Imperiale, 1990

Buildings Andrew Melville Hall, St

Andrews, 1960

Engineering Building, Leicester,

1963

History Faculty Library,

Cambridge, UK, 1967

Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart,

1983

Clore Gallery, London, 1987

JAMES STIRLING ARCHITECT

LUIS BARRAGAN Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín

Born March 9, 1902

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexi

co

Died November 22, 1988 (aged

86)

Mexico City, Mexico

Nationality Mexican

Awards Pritzker Prize

Buildings Torres de Satélite

LUIS BARRAGAN

Fuente de los Amantes

horse ranch

Casa Luis Barragán

Torres de Satélite, Mexico City

(1957–58), in collaboration with

Mathias Goeritz

BAVINGER HOUSE

The Bavinger House was completed in 1955 in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. It was designed by architect Bruce Goff. Considered a significant example of organic

Year five -theTwentythe house was awarded [,architectureAward from the American Institute of Architects in 1987. The house was built over the course of five years by Nancy and Eugene Bavinger, the residents of the house, who were artists, along with the help of a few of Eugene's art students, volunteers, and local businesses. The wall of the house is a 96-foot long logarithmically curved spiral, made from 200 tons of local "ironrock" sandstone dynamited (by Eugene) from a piece of purchased farmland near Robin Hill School, a few miles away from the house and hauled back on Eugene's 48 Chevy flatbed truck. The structure was anchored by a recycled oil field drill stem that was reused to make a central mast more than 55 feet high. The house has no interior walls; instead there are a series of platforms at different heights, some with curtains that can be drawn for privacy. The ground floor is covered with pools and planted areas

BAVINGER HOUSE

THE GROUP NEW YORK FIVE

Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932) is an American architect. Eisenman's

professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde,

late or high modernist, etc. A certain fragmenting of forms visible in some of

Eisenman's projects has been identified as characteristic of an eclectic group of

architects that were (self-)labeled as deconstructivists, and who were featured in an

exhibition by the same name at the Museum of Modern Art. The heading also refers

to the storied relationship and collaborations between Peter Eisenman and post-

structuralist thinker Jacques Derrida. Peter Eisenman's writings have pursued topics

including comparative formal analyses; the emancipation and autonomization of the

discipline; and histories of Architects including: Giuseppe Terragni, Andrea Palladio,

Le Corbusier and James Stirling. While he has been referred to as a polarizing

figure, such antagonistic associations are likely prompted by Colin Rowe's 1972

criticism that the work pursues physique form of European modernism rather than the

utopian social agendas (See "Five Architects," (New York: Wittenborn, 1972)) or more

recent accusations that Eisenman's work is "post-humanist" (Perhaps because his

references to the Renaissance are 'merely' formal). While his apathy towards the

recent "green" movement is considered polarizing or "out-of-touch", this architect-

artist (with drawings held by major collections) was also an early advocate of

computer aided design. Eisenman employed fledgling innovators such as Greg Lynn

and Ingeborg Rocker as early as the 1989.[ Despite these claims of polarity and

autonomization, Eisenman has famously pursued dialogues with important cultural

figures internationally. These include his English mentor Colin Rowe, the Italian

historian Manfredo Tafuri, George Baird, Fredric Jameson,[Laurie Olin, Rosalind

Krauss and Jacques Derrida. In addition to his vast literary contributions (as editor,

curator, and writer) and professional practice, Eisenman's reputation as a critic and

professor of architecture is similarly famed

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Peter Eisenman

The Memorial

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Michael Graves

Michael Graves (born July 9,

1934) is an American architect.

Identified as one of The New

York Five, Graves has become

a household name with his

designs for domestic products

sold at Target stores in the

United States.

THE GROUP NEW YORK FIVE Charles Gwathmey (June 19, 1938 – August 3,

2009) was an American architect. He was

a principal at Gwathmey Siegel & Associates

Architects, as well as one of the five architects

identified as The New York Five in 1969. One of

Gwathmey's most famous designs is the 1992

renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim

Museum in New York City

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, he was the son of

the American painter Robert Gwathmey and

photographer Rosalie Gwathmey. Charles

Gwathmey attended the University of

Pennsylvania and received his Master of

Architecture degree in 1962 from Yale School of

Architecture, where he won both The William Wirt

Winchester Fellowship as the outstanding graduate

and a Fulbright Grant.

Gwathmey served as President of the Board of

Trustees for The Institute for Architecture and Urban

Studies and was elected a Fellow of the American

Institute of Architects in 1981.

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Gwathmey

designed this

condominium tower

at 445 Lafayette

Street where

Lafayette, Cooper

Square and Astor

Place come

together.

Charles Gwathmey

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john quntin hejduk

John Quentin Hejduk (19 July 1929 – 3 July 2000), was

an American architect, artist and educator who spent

much of his life in New York City, USA. Hejduk is noted for

his use of attractive and often difficult-to-construct objects

and shapes; also for a profound interest in the

fundamental issues of shape, organization,

representation, and reciprocity.

Hejduk studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and

Architecture, the University of Cincinnati, and the Harvard

Graduate School of Design, from which he graduated with

a Masters in Architecture in 1953. He worked in several

offices in New York including that of I. M. Pei and Partners

and the office of A.M. Kinney and Associates. He

established his own practice in New York in 1965

THE GROUP NEW YORK FIVE Originally designed in 1973 for Ed Bye, in Ridgefield, Connecticut USA, for a

long time it only existed as a concept until Groningen decided to actually build

the house. Designed to place living in the context of time by means of a Wall

which symbolizes the physical transition from past to future through the

present, a transition between back and front, closed and open. The Wall, one-

and-a-half m. thick, forms the basis of the house. The entrance and living

elements literally hang from it. To reinforce this idea, a narrow gap is left

between the Wall and the elements. Hence the Wall is not directly manifest in

the interior but can only be perceived visually. It is a theoretical house, based

on the idea of the physical confrontation between space and time, elaborated

in separate elements. It is a museological manifestation of an important

architectural concept. Although it wasn't designed for this particular site, it does

enter into a dialogue with its 'everyday' surroundings.

Wall House II

design from the

1970s, built

posthumously

(Groningen, The

Netherlands,

2001)

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Richard Meier in New York City, April 2009.

Born October 12, 1934

Newark, New Jersey

Nationality American

Awards Pritzker Prize (1984)

AIA Gold Medal (1997)

Practice Richard Meier &

Partners

Buildings Barcelona Museum of

Contemporary Art

City Hall and Central

Library, The Hague

Getty Center, Los

Angeles

Richard Meier

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Barcelona Museum of

Contemporary Art

The Atheneum in New Harmony,

Indiana, United State

Museum of Television and Radio,

Beverly Hills, California Richard Meier

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City Hall and Central Library, The Hague

Getty Center, Los Angeles

Richard Meier

CENTRAL LIBRARIES General information

Type Library

Architectural style Brutalist

Location Chamberlain Square,Birmingham, England

Construction started April 1969

Completed December 1973

Opening 12 January 1974

Demolished 2014 (Planned)

Cost 4.7 million Pound sterling

Height 22.6 metres (74 ft)

Technical details

Floor count 8

Design and construction

Owner Birmingham City Council

Architect John Madin

Architecture firm John Madin Design Group

Structural engineer Ove Arup & Partners

Services engineer R.W. Gregory & Partners

Quantity surveyor L.C. Wakeman & Partners

Main contractor Sir Robert McAlpine

Birmingham

Central Library

CHICAGO TRIBUNE In 1922, the Chicago Tribune offered $100,000 in prize money for an

international architectural competition to design the most beautiful office

building in the world. With a lavish first prize of $50,000, there was a total

of 263 entries. The winning entry was a neo-Gothic skyscraper design by

architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The irony of the

competition was that these architects happened to be from New York, and

in a time when New York CIty and Chicago were in an architectural face

off this was no laughing matter. However, the winner could not be

disputed as the competition winer was selected by a panel of blind

judges. The Chicago Tribune has certainly become an icon of Chicago,

with its intricate ornamentation and spider like tracery, though many critics

originally scoffed at it for it's Gothic revivalist architecture. Here is a look

at some of the other entries for the competition. Of most significance is

the 2nd place entry submitted by Eliel Saarinen. It is considered to be one

of the most influential unbuilt buildings of the 20th century. It set the stage

for the Art Deco movement with its sleek setbacks and soaring verticality,

and is credited as one of the major influences for 333 N Michigan Avenue,

set across from the Tribune Tower on the south bank of the Chicago

River.

The following blog entries will be photographs of some of the 263

submissions for the Chicago Tribune Tower International Architectural

Competition.