Who is your favorite architect?

I really like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

I was pleased with the results, used real travertine and verte antique marble, 1/16" green glass, lots of detail.

We were big on model building...

Proud to say, too, that my thesis project and model were featured in the AIA Journal back in the day:

1984
Architecture - August, 1984
The journal of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Article surveys the work in schools of architecture at Harvard, Cooper Union, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Mississippi State University, and Princeton. It observes that the School of Architecture at MSU has wrested a dynamic energy from the states untapped natural resources.

Too bad that it was pre-internet versions of magazines.

Love me some Mies!

A splendid achievement
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Black Sabbath, "Spiral Architect," Live at Asbury Park, NJ on 8/5/1975: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPk9sRt-w3w

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TV Architects
Wilbur Post (Mr. Ed)
Mike Brady (The Brady Bunch)
Elise Keaton (Family Ties)

Related, or mis-remembered
Steve Douglas - Aeronautical engineer (My Three Sons)


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Though I thought he made a better fake marine biologist than a fake architect. (Or latex salesman)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8KUgUqprw

Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli

"Yeah, didn't take very long either."

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No one else comes close...

I also especially like the Schröder House in Utrecht... :-)

I don't recall having seen that before. Thank you. :-)

I also love this Wright house in Washington State, much easier upkeep than Falling Water. :D

I'de like to check that out.

the outside walls of the house were black ceramic brick, purple wood siding, and yellow and white stucco walls.

In Ohio. I think it is the only Rietveld house in the US.

he was also famous for his furniture

I took three semesters of art history architecture while I was in college and that was one of the buildings that stuck with me, I liked it so much. I had no idea that there was a Rietveld building in the US... And I've never before seen his furniture. Thank you so much! :bounce:

BTW, here's one of the buildings at my college, lived in this particular one senior year. The pix are kinda small, but you can see why I liked the architecture there, too. :hi:

on edit: The walls and carpeting inside were bright colors, too. Where I lived in that particular building, it was purple. :D

the first time I went to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the epicenter of modern art, and there in the museum was a model of the Schroder House and the first chair that I showed in the previous post. I had no idea that the architect who had designed our house was that famous. (It was designed for a previous owner, not my parents).

I've never visited the Schroeder House in Utrecht, though I hope to, someday. I had no idea that there was one much closer. Did your parents know? I would have imagined that architecture or art history students would have driven by at regular intervals... ;)

we knew Rietveld was part of the De Stijl movement with Mondrian, and the house looked like it. There is a major design school named after him in the Netherlands now.

Art history students from the local college would drop in; the guy that commisioned the house was a curator of the art museum there. The house was later somewhat screwed up by the later owner after my parents moved out of the area. We had also looked at a tiny Frank Lloyd Wright house in the town at one point, but it was much too small for our family, and very dark, for some reason.

I have actually been to Utrecht, by the way, which is fascinating for its historic architecture and canals, though I neither knew or looked for the Schroder House when I was there.

And you were very fortunate to have grown up in such an architecture rich area. Thanks so much for sharing your story. I love his designs, probably partially chose my college based on the architecture, all concrete and plate glass... :-)

It's a shame that you missed the Schroeder House. I once agreed to go to Buffalo hoping to see another building that I liked there. LOL. :D

I've traveled all over the British Isles and Russia, and they have countless very old, amazing buildings, but never found one that I'd actually like to live in... :shrug:

On edit: For example: Petrodvorets, Peter the Great's "Summer Palace," St. Petersburg, Russia ;)

and thoroughly enjoyed the multiple ancient cathedrals in the Kremlin, and the rebuilt Cathedral of Christ the Savior that the Soviets had blown up in the 1930s.

that and the Tretyakov art museum!

I'd love to go to St. Petersburg. I've only seen it from the air on the way out of Russia.

I used to talk to my friend's third grade class about Russia and I pointed out that the Kremlin was built in 1492! LOL. Did you visit The Armory Museum in the Kremlin? The history and wealth contained there is positively overwhelming... :wow:

And the cathedrals were amazing, too, though we had to choose only one, since we didn't have time to see all of them. I think it was Michael the Archangel, also with so much gold, ancient triptychs... :wow:

We missed St. Basil's, though, only saw it from the outside, since they were working on it, covered with scaffolding. :-(

Moscow was impressive, but I liked St. Petersburg the best, probably because of the buildings, so many beautiful ones, and they use so much color! It's also right on the water. Peter the Great was big on modernizing the country and there are canals, too. :-)

Peter and Paul Cathedral is also well worth a visit, many czars buried there. They tend to bury people under the floors in these places and I tripped more than once... x(

http://www.uc.edu/honors/images/Russia/Peter%20and%20Paul%20Fortress,%20early%20spring.jpg

We also visited a 6th-century church, earth floor and no remaining roof, but it was so old that it boggles the mind. I went there with my grandmother, shortly before the USSR fell, as part of a peace group. :-)

The last commission by Frank Lloyd Wright.



In August, 1970 the Civic Center, which houses the Marin County Superior Court, was the scene of an assault by a group of African-American political activists led by Jonathan Jackson, the brother of Black Panther militant George Jackson, demanding the release of the so-called "Soledad Brothers". The group released several prisoners in the courtroom and took a number of hostages including the presiding judge, Harold Haley. While they were attempting to escape, four people, including Judge Haley and Jonathan Jackson, were killed. The story, which featured dramatic photographs, was carried in newspapers nationally. Black Panther activist Angela Davis was eventually tied to the case, prompting her to go on the run before being caught and ultimately acquitted on charges of supplying firearms to Jonathan Jackson.

Metal detectors were soon installed in the entrances, the first I even encountered in public buildings.

AS a matter of fact, it looks like the first pic

Tadao Ando
Renzo Piano
Arata Isozaki
Mario Botta

postmodernists all.

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Or at least the buildings that he was supposed to have designed were. Hey, don't blame me, LOL, I'm just repeating what I read, back in the day. I read The Fountainhead at 14... :-)

Spent many quality hours in this building from my childhood on.

He literally pushes the building envelope.

I could go on...

I don't know if she could design a Porta Potty, but she's still my favorite.

I used to occasionally stumble across houses he built when my folks were living in Brussels. Only one or two is open to the public, unfortunately, but at least the facades are pretty interesting to look at too.