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TWA Terminal  The TWA flight center (the Trans World Flight Center) was designed by Eero Saarinen in 1962 and is a great example of Futurist architecture and modern architecture. The TWA terminal was a major milestone in the improvement and development of air travel. There has always been a feeling of excitement when one is to travel by airplane. Eero Saarinen aimed to capture each and every aspect that makes air travel so sensational, throughout the buildings design to the flight itself. It is as if he wanted a persons experiential journey to begin before they even set foot on the airplane itself. The structure of the building itself becomes symbolic as one would approach this “monument to airline travel”. The large wing-like concrete shell resembles the wings of an airplane. This building is another great example of the implementation of concrete into building designs following World War two. The wing like structure shows just what exactly concrete is capable of. The mat...

Schroder House The Schroder house was built in 1924 by architect Gerrit Rietveld. It was commissioned by Mrs. Truus Schroder to shelter herself and her children in the Netherlands . It is a small one family house, with a flexible interior, spatial arrangement, and the visual and formal qualities. The Schroder house plays a part in the modern movement as it was a masterpiece and that cleverly expresses its ideas and concepts developed by the De Stijl movement. The planar qualities were used to derive interior spaces and also creating different armature per floor. The Schroder house is the only house that was designed and strictly followed the De Stijl style which was marked with primary colors that can be seen throughout the entire building. The small two-story dwelling had 2 stories, the first floor is the public and transformable area with all the necessary living spaces while upstairs were more private separated by portable partitions. ...

La Tourette Located in Lyon, France, Sainte Marie de La Tourette (La Tourette) is a Dominican order priory and is a well developed example of brutalist architecture, modern architecture, and the international style. Completed in 1957, La Tourette is the last building that Le Corbusier designed in Europe. The building was designed to be a “self-contained world” for a large community of silent monks. This contained world had a hundred individual living cells for the monks, a communal library, a refectory, a rooftop cloister, a church, and classrooms. All five of Le Corbusier’s self identifiable key elements of architecture (the five points of architecture) are present in the modernist styling of the convent of La Tourette. The ground pilots are the most apparent to the buildings viewer since La Tourette has a very internally developed program. The building site was picked by Le Corbusier, he placed the building on a very downward sloped site to take advantage of the magnificent sce...

Falling Water Falling Water is located in Pennsylvania and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Completed in 1964, Falling water is an excellent example of organic/modern architecture. This residence was designed for the Kaufmann family after the son developed a friendship with Frank Lloyd Wright while attending his school. The family imagined a home facing the waterfall so that they could view it every day. However, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned the house integrating with the waterfall itself. He planned on doing this by placing the house onto of the waterfall in order to have it become a part of the Kaufmann family’s lives. Wright always had a great admiration for Japanese architecture which had a strong belief in strengthening the harmony between man and nature. By placing the building on top of the waterfall, it becomes dominant in the house through sound and feeling rather than sight. The waterfall is constantly crashing just below the summer home, echoing the sound througho...

Seagram  Building (New York, NY) 1958   The Seagram Building is a skyscraper, located at 375 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The building was designed by German- American architect   Mies   van der Rohe. Philip Johnson, Kahn & Jacobs were also involved in the development/ design of the building.   The building stands 515 feet tall with 38 stories. The building was completed in 1958. It stands as one of the most notable examples of modern architecture. It was designed as the headquarters for the   Canadian   distillers Joseph E Seagram & Sons. The building is owned by Aby Rosen's RFR Holdings.   Mies   van der Rohe was given an unlimited budget by Phyllis Lambert which was Seagram's heiress. The structure was influenced heavily on American architecture. The Seagram building was a large building made out of a steel frame.   Mies   wanted the steel frame to be visible to the public, but the American building ...

Maisons Jaoul is a famous housing project on the country side of Neuilly-sur-Seine in Paris. It was designed by Le Corbusier and built between 1954 and 1956. They are one of his most important post-war buildings and they have strong and beautiful unpainted cast concrete "bétonbrut" and regularly detailed brickwork. In the beginning,   A ndré Jaoul  was built for his son Michel in the first time in 1937 and commissioned Famous Swiss Architect Le Corbusier to design the project. Moreover, he received a new commissioned by  A ndré Jaoul to design two housing project for  A ndré Jaoul and her wife Suzanne in 1951.There were a new method was presented in the world. At the end, the project had accomplished in 1956. It became one of the most important buildings after the WWII by Le Corbusier. The building sizes have attracted them in sculptural sense, and uses unusual materials on the exterior as concrete and bricks, with unpainted rusted to gives it a rough appearance...

The  chapel at Ronchamp is a Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France. The building was built in the fourth century, and there were two replacements. The first one was the previous chapel burned in lightning with fire accident in 1913. And the other one was destroyed by the German Bombing in 1944. Architect Le Corbusier had in charge to restore the second time, which is the existing chapel with fantastic design in the world. In the beginning of the plan, Corbusier wanted to restore the building. However, his team had figured out the cost of restoration is more expensive than rebuild the chapel. Furthermore, it would be more efficiency to control budget, materials and labors. He supported by his friends Ledeur Mathey and Pierre Marie Marie Alain Courtrier to make the decision. Le Corbusier had visited the place in June 1950. He spent time to sketch and walk around the hillside to create a bell shape plan” taking as a starting point the four horizons These are, the plain of Saone, ...