![]() ![]() ECĪ century later, this enigmatic but canonical book still seduces architects of all ages with its grandiose language and daring visual assemblies. Its history will be reinvented yet again thanks to a new design from Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects. The fragment of it in The Met is one of my favorite ghosts. The architect’s modern design for the Imperial Hotel is one of his most enduring works it is also oddly haunting, as it was demolished in 1968. It’s no secret that FLW’s iconic “prairie” style had more to do with Japanese sensibility and cultural knowledge than it did with the expansive grasslands characteristic of the American Midwest. DJRįrank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel in Tokyo ![]() by Frank Wars and Robert Watts, two entrepreneurs in Tacoma, Washington. Although CLT has become all the rage lately, the technology itself is, surprisingly, a century old, patented in the U.S. Architects tout it as a green alternative to steel and concrete for making homes, midrises, skyscrapers, et al. HBO: The writers’ strike is over where are you at? JM 100th | 1923ĬLT is a buzzword these days. It is prime fodder for a television series. Even spicier was the home’s cultural life, which teemed with creatives and creative arrangements: Schindler and his wife, Pauline, divorced, and later she returned to live in the second unit. Witness its indoor-outdoor living, flexible partitioning via shoji-like screens, prefabricated assemblies, and climate-responsive sleeping porches. This duplex designed by Rudolph Schindler, an Austrian architect who landed in Los Angeles, is 101 years old, but it could easily command a stunning magazine cover today. For those who wish to inscribe it on their bodies, for a while, consider a new set of temporary tattoos designed by Sam Jacob Studio. While it might still be required reading on some syllabi, it should be understood with contemporary adjustments. For more than a century, however, his canonical text Ornament is a Crime, published in 1913, changed the way architects think about decoration on buildings. In recent years, it has come to light that Loos was both a racist and likely a pedophile. The Viennese architect Adolf Loos wasn’t a good man. It’s fun to imagine plaster of Paris buildings being erected like theatrical sets, but the dark fascination of the book also warns of disasters that come from cost-cutting and undervaluing labor. The shiny neoclassical buildings of the City Beautiful Movement that housed those otherworldly exhibitions still define city culture today. I’m from Chicago, and the book dramatizes events and characters that defined the city during the time of the Chicago World’s Fair. The book that made me want to study architecture was Devil in the White City. Today, the Brooklyn Bridge is a popular tourist destination, and for good reason: It physically embodies our unified metropolis. Thirteen years after its construction, the five boroughs of New York City were brought into a common municipal charter drafted by Andrew Haswell Green. Prior to its construction, thousands of Brooklynites depended on ferries to traverse the East River, a particularly difficult passage in winter. Roebling and completed by his son and daughter-in-law, was the first to connect Manhattan and Brooklyn. Jack Murphy 140th | 1883īrooklyn Bridge Brooklyn Bridge (ThibautRe/ Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0) ![]() It’s Jefferson’s grid, we’re just living in it. Today, much of this part of the country is organized accordingly, for better or worse. Decades earlier, Jefferson established a square-format system for dividing land into property that was to be unrolled all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Negotiated by James Madison under Thomas Jefferson’s presidency, this acquisition almost doubled the size of the fledgling republic through colonizing means: France didn’t control much of the territory and actually only ceded the right to dispossess Indigenous groups of their lands. ![]()
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