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Sulaiman Bin Ahmed  Extra Credit Falling Water Falling water house was designed in 1935 by a renowned American architect named Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Falling water is located in the mountains of south western Pennsylvania, also known as the Laurel Highlands, in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. in Fayette County, and a distance of about 70 miles east of Pittsburgh. In this location i.e. In Mill Run, Pennsylvania in the Bear Run Nature Reserve, the stream flows at 1298 feet above sea level and suddenly breaks to fall at 30 feet. The building is one of Wright’s most widely acclaimed works which best exemplifies his philosophy of organic architecture: the harmonious union of art and nature. Falling water house was designed for the family of Pittsburgh department store owner, Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr. as a private residence and weekend home. The Kaufmann family, Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr. (1885-1955), Liliane S. Kaufmann (1889-1952), and their son, Edgar Kaufmann jr. (1910-1989), owned...

Sulaiman Bin Ahmed Extra Credit  Seagram Building Seagram Building is designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and ex-MoMA staffer and architect Philip Johnson. The landmark skyscraper is located on Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets in mid-town Manhattan (375 Park Avenue New York, New York 10022) and it is often loftily hailed as a precedent-setting structure for modern corporate architecture in New York City. The building's particular conception and construction were largely driven by the idealistic, principled visions of Phyllis Lambert, daughter of Seagram's founder Samuel Bronfman. The skyscraper was originally designed as the headquarters for Joseph E. Seagram’s & Sons, and was Mies’ first tall office building project. The building is Characterised by sleek glass and metal, rather than the ornamental heavy stone and brick facades of previous decades, the Seagram Building signalled a new era of functional skyscraper, adopting a minimalist corporate aestheti...

Sulaiman Bin Ahmed Mannheim Theatre Mannheim Theatre was designed by Alessandro Galli da Bibiena, Mannheim, is a city in Germany and important in German history. In 1720, the town became the seat of government, a Court theatre was established in the castle, and between 1737 and 1741, the renowned architect Alessandro Galli da Bibiena built a baroque theatre in the town, and also designing the scenery for it. A garden theatre was built at Schwetzingen in 1752, and also a small open-air theatre, in 1778 Dalberg became director of the newly established National Theatre Mannheim, which under him became one of the foremost theatres in the gantry. Later in that year i.e. the same year, after the demise, of Ekhof's in Gotha, Ualberg engaged his troupe with Iffland at its head. One of Dalberg's greatest service to the German theatre was his faithful support of the young Schiller, whose Die Rauber had its hrst production at Mannheim in 1782. In 1796, partly owing to the rigou...

Sulaiman Bin Ahmed UNITY TEMPLE Unity temple is located in Chicago's Oak Park, near Wright's studio, it is a Unitarian Universalist church and the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation. The temple was built between 1905 and 1908 and designed by an American architect named Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright considered the Prairie-style concrete church to be his first contribution to modern architecture. Unity Temple was a replacement church for Unitarian Universalist Church that had burned down in 1905. The church is poised as an important work for the Modernist movement in the early 20th Century, but it was also the foundation from which the Prairie School would originate into Wright’s architectural language. Unity Temple was not just an ordinary commission for Wright since he was a parishioner of the Unitarian Church, to him the church was meant to be a temple for man to worship god, which coincided with Wright’s decision to abandon the t...

Sulaiman Bin Ahmed                                          Chicago Tribune tower The tribune tower is located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States. This neo-Gothic skyscraper was the home of the Chicago Tribune, Tribune Media, and tronc, Inc., formerly known as Tribune Publishing. The original Tribune Tower was built in 1868, but was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. The building opened again in 1925 as headquarters for the Chicago Tribune. In early 2018, work began converting the entire office building into condominiums which will be completed by 2020. In 1922, on the occasion of its 75th anniversary, the newspaper announced an international competition for a new downtown headquarters. The competition sought “for Chicago, the most beautiful building in the world,” and it offered $100,000 in prize money, $50,000 to the winner. The...

Suliaman Bin Ahmed Crown Hall   Crown Hall is one of 20 buildings designed by Ludwig  Mies  van der Rohe for the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. The building was built between the period of 1950-1956. This is the center piece of a master plan for the campus founded in 1940 that covers approximately 50 hectares. Crown Hall is an architecturally significant building because  Mies  van der Rohe refined the basic steel and glass construction style, beautifully capturing simplicity and openness. Crown Hall,  Mies  considered the building to be the best embodiment of that maxim.  Mies  once described his creation as being "almost nothing." With World War II and the Great Depression leaving a large break in construction,  Mies  reconstructed curriculum to appreciate minimalism and to focus on using only what was necessary; an approach not yet  favor able  in most architecture schools of the time. ...

Sulaiman  Bin Ahmed   Unite  d’Habitation     Unite  d’Habitation  is  a great architectural innovations  that is referenced all over the world, it is located in France. Unite  d’Habitation  was designed by the famous French architect Le Corbusier in the year 1947 with the assistance of painter-architect Nadir Afonso. The complex has more floors than Habitat 67, boasting of 18 floors with 160 residences.   After the famous World War II, the need for housing was high as many French more importantly the resident of Marseille were without shelter due to bombings. There were needs for new housing project. Le Corbusier deigned series of new housing project in which Unite  d’Habitation  was a pioneer in the year 1947. The project lasted for five years and was completed in the year 1952. The building was developed with the assistance of Nadir Afonso, Shadrach Woods, and George  Candilis . The building was call...