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Architects: Michael Graves
- Year: 2006
Megan Sveiven
AD Classics: St. Coletta School / Michael Graves
AD Classics: Dessau Bauhaus / Walter Gropius
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Architects: Walter Gropius
- Year: 1926
AD Classics: Orange County Government Center / Paul Rudolph
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Architects: Paul Rudolph
- Year: 1971
AD Classics: Bass Residence / Paul Rudolph
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Architects: Paul Rudolph
- Year: 1972
AD Classics: Villa Mairea / Alvar Aalto
A collage of materials amongst the trunks of countless birch trees in the Finnish landscape, the Villa Mairea built by Alvar Aalto in 1939 is a significant dwelling that marks a transition from traditional to modern architecture. Built as a guest house and rural retreat for Harry and Maire Gullichsen, Aalto was given permission to experiment with his thoughts and styles, which becomes clear when studying the strangely cohesive residence.
AD Classics: Fondation Cartier / Jean Nouvel
Radical among the architects of today, Jean Nouvel continually amazes practicing architects and unstudied passerby alike with his brilliant manipulation of form, patterns, materials and colors. Currently discussed for his vibrant Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London and the recently built luxurious Chelsea apartments in New York, Nouvel has a history of creating the most striking and innovative buildings.
One of his earlier buildings, the Fondation Cartier in Paris 1994, employs the same dedication to transparency and rigor of the surface as the more recently designed structures of Nouvel. As a public space that houses contemporary art and graffiti exhibitions, the play between inside and out is very fitting as it creates an openness which invites people to experience the building from both up close and afar.
More on the Fondation Cartier after the break.
AD Classics: Ennis House / Frank Lloyd Wright
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Architects: Frank Lloyd Wright
- Year: 1924