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RESEARCH WORK 2: MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE
Building Architect
1 Quote: “There are no straight lines or sharp
corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must
have no straight lines or sharp corners.”

Name of Building: Casa Batlló

Name of Architect: Antoni Gaudí
Style/s of Architecture: Catalan
Modernist and Art Nouveau Architecture

Antoni Gaudí is a Catalan architect, renowned

for being the inventor of unclassified, unique,
and unparalleled architectural language. He
was responsible for the restoration of Casa
Batlló—a building that was supposed to be
demolished—wherein he completely changed
the façade and transformed the insides into a
work of art.

Based from his famous quote, it appears that

Gaudí’s goal was to completely avoid straight
lines. From the outside, its façade is filled with
tracery, irregular oval windows particularly in
the ground floor. Another notable design is
that it looks like it was composed of skulls
(balconies) and bones (supporting pillars),
giving it a visceral and skeletal organic quality.
Gaudí took inspiration from marine life for the
colors of the building which is characterized
through the astonishing mosaic in shades of
golden orange to greenish blues.

2 Quote: “The desire to reach for the sky runs

very deep in the human psyche.”

Name of Building: Petronas Twin Towers

Name of Architect: Cesar Pelli
Style/s of Architecture: Post-modern
Islamic Architecture

Architect Cesar Pelli is known for producing

groundbreaking skyscrapers. For the Petronas
Twin Towers, he incorporated Islamic motifs
as an expression of Malaysia’s culture and
heritage. Instead of keeping it simple, Pelli
“scalloped” the curved and pointed bays to
create an elegant and delicate aesthetic that
reminiscent temple towers. A bridge located at
the 41st floor links the two towers, and also
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functions as a
dramatic
gateway to the city.
The Rub el Hizb, a significant symbol found in
Islamic cultures, was used to design the floor
plan of the building. This resulted into a plan
that has a geometric form of an eight-pointed
star that represents the principles of unity,
harmony, stability, and rationality.
3 Quote: "Architecture should speak of its time
and place, but yearn for timelessness."

Name of Building: Walt Disney Concert

Hall
Name of Architect: Frank Gehry
Style/s of Architecture: Deconstructivist
Architecture

The initial concept of Architect Frank Gehry for

Walt Disney Concert Hall is a column-free
room with an evocative, sculptural forms of
music, achieving an intimate connection
between the orchestra and audience. It has a
plan that centers around a massive concert
hall accommodating 2,265 seats with a
vineyard-style seating arrangement. Unlike
many traditional concert halls, no boxes or
balconies are attached inside to avoid implied
social hierarchies.

Its exterior was originally intended to be

cladded in limestone, but was changed to
stainless steel due to the popularity of his
Guggenheim Museum, a titanium building
located in Bilbao, Spain. Afterwards, its shape
was tweaked until it turned into the iconic
silver sails. The undulating and angled forms
of its exterior symbolizes musical movement
and the motion of Los Angeles.
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4 Quote: “The
mother art is
architecture. Without an architecture of our
own, we have no soul of our own civilization.”

Name of Building: Fallingwater

Name of Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Style/s of Architecture: Organic
Architecture

Throughout his career, Architect Frank Lloyd

Wright have designed 800 buildings, of which
380 had been built. His architectural fashion is
the Prairie fashion. Fallingwater originated
when Architect Frank Lloyd Wright found a
rock that jutted out over a streaming water on
its site. He then decided to use that exact spot
to build a house where the water flow
underneath. Similar to Japanese architecture,
Wright’s intention for Fallingwater is to create
a harmony between man, architecture, and
nature.

The exterior of Fallingwater exhibits prominent

horizontal pattern through the long terraces
and bricks. Wright used 'corner-turning
windows' without mullions to 'break the box of
the house and cause the corners to vanish'
when opened. Beneath the house is the
phenomenal stream of water which
synthesizes nature and architecture. On the
other hand, its interior consists of dark, narrow
passageways to make people experience a
compressing feeling that contrast the sense of
expansion as they get closer to the outdoors.
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5 Quote: “A lasting
architecture has
to have roots.”

Name of Building: Louvre Pyramid

Name of Architect: I.M. Pei
Style/s of Architecture: Modernist and
Futurist Architecture

Inspired by the Pyramid of Giza, the Louvre

Pyramid was designed to provide a
contemporary spin to its surroundings while
acting as a central focal point. Despite its
modern nature, the pyramid does not detract
from the historical nature of the museum.
Rather, the juxtaposition of the modern
structure and the French Renaissance
architectural style of the museum creates a
complimentary effect that enhances each of
the design’s details and beauty.

Its Architect, I.M. Pei, envisioned a glass of

pyramid that have total transparency. His
intention for this was to serve three purposes:
1. Offer the visitor a ‘grand’ feeling of
arrival
2. Offer space for visitor services
3. Light the underground space
Due to his insistency, a new type of glass was
developed specifically for the project.

Its structure was designed in a way where the

visitors would enter the pyramid and descend
into the spacious lobby and then make their
way into the main Louvre buildings. Under the
glass pyramid is where Pei located the
reception, functional areas, and a network of
corridors to access the art collections easily.
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6 Quote: “To
create
architecture is to put in order. Put what in
order? Function and objects.”

Name of Building: Villa Savoye

Name of Architect: Le Corbusier
Style/s of Architecture: Modernist and
International Architecture

Le Corbusier designed Villa Savoyre as a

demonstration of his theory that the home
should be a a "machine for living in", with the
functions of everyday life being crucial to its
design. The spatial planning was inspired by
the designs of new automobiles and trans-
Atlantic steamships, with spaces arranged to
maximize efficiency and convey a minimalistic
aesthetic.

The ‘Five Points of Architecture’ that Corbusier

devised were incorporated in designing Villa
Savoye:
1. Pilotis: Support of ground-level pilotis,
to elevate the building and allow the
garden to grow beneath.
2. Flat roof terrace: A functional roof
which served as a garden and terrace.
Bringing nature into an urban setting.
3. Free floor plan: Using a structural grid
as opposed to load-bearing walls,
allowed Corbusier to place walls freely.
4. Ribbon Windows: Long horizontal
windows which let in light but also
reinforce the planarity of the wall.
5. Free Facade: The exterior walls were
not load-bearing, Villa Savoye’s
facades could be ‘freely designed’.
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7 Quote: “Less is
more.”

Name of Building: Edith Farnsworth

House, also known as “The Farnsworth
House”
Name of Architect: Mies van der Rohe
Style/s of Architecture: Modernist and
International Architecture

Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is known

for being advanced than anyone in terms of
structural integrity. Most of his works has a
distinctive International architecture style that
exudes elegant simplicity. This signature style
embodied in his design of the Farnsworth
House, to which also became an opportunity
for him to bring man's relationship to nature
into the forefront.

According to Mies, The Farnsworth House is

nothing more than an ideogram, and nothing
less than the apotheosis of the Prairie Style.
Mies conceived the building as an indoor-
outdoor architectural shelter simultaneously
independent of and intertwined with the
domain of nature. He therefore did not build
on the flood-free portions of the site, choosing
instead to tempt the dangerous forces nature
by building directly on the flood plain near the
river’s edge.
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8 Quote: “There is
a profound ethic
to architecture which is different from the
other arts.”

Name of Building: Habitat 67

Name of Architect: Moshe Safdie
Style/s of Architecture: Brutalist
Architecture

Architect Moshe Safdie designed Habitat 67 as

an experimental solution for producing high-
quality housing in dense urban environment.
The project expressed Safdie’s vision for the
creation of a new housing typology that could
integrate the qualities of a suburban home into
an urban high-rise, but with reduced housing
costs.

Habitat 67 seeks to produce a vital

neighborhood with open spaces, garden
terraces and many other amenities typically
reserved for the single-family home. The
building itself pioneered the design and
implementation of a three-dimensional
conglomeration of 354 identical and
prefabricated concrete units that are
connected by steel tables. The units were
made in 15 different sizes, between 60 and
160 square metres and 1 to 4 bedrooms. In
Habitat ’67 all the parts of the building,
including the units, the pedestrian streets, and
the elevator cores, participate as load-carrying
members. The units are connected to each
other by post-tensioning, high-tension rods,
cables, and welding, all of which combine to
form a continuous suspension system.
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9 Quote: “As an
architect, you
design for the present, with an awareness of
the past, for a future which is essentially
unknown.”

Name of Building: 30 St Mary Axe, also

known as “The Gherkin”
Name of Architect: Norman Foster
Style/s of Architecture: Sustainable,
High-tech, and Neo-futurist Architecture

Norma Foster is an architect that owns Foster

+ Partners which produces elegant, and high-
tech, yet sustainable structures all over the
world. His concept for The Gherkin’s form
originated from its circular plan which
embodied radial geometry inspiring the
architects to widen the building’s profile as you
move up and slowly lessen it as you approach
the top most lens.

Despite its futuristic and hi-tech appearance,

the building is actually designed with focus on
sustainability. Its energy-efficient mechanisms
allow the building to use only half the power of
another structure its size. The forty-one floors
of the building have radial floor plan with open
shafts in between each floor to promote
natural ventilation. The exterior of the building
is both open and insulated, allowing for plenty
of light and air circulation to keep the building
warm during the cold months, and cooler
during the warm ones. Although it has a
rocket-like curved structure, only the dome on
its apex is made of a curved glass— the rest of
its glass panels are completely straight.
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10 Quote:
“Architecture is
the art of how to waste space.”

Name of Building: Glass House

Name of Architect: Philip Johnson
Style/s of Architecture: Mid-century
Modernist Architecture

Philip Johnson is an American architect

acclaimed for his International Style, and his
contribution in defining postmodernist
architecture. The initial concept of the Glass
House was adopted from Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe, who was designing the Farnsworth
House during the same period. However,
contrary to the Farnsworth House, the Glass
House is symmetrical and sits solidly on the
ground. It showcases features like radical
simplicity, continuous space, structural clarity,
lack of ornamentation, use of industrial
materials, the latest building technologies, and
the largest panels of glass.

Its open floor plan is the one that makes the

Glass House a one-room structure. No interior
walls are present within its 32 by 56 feet
(1,815 sq. ft.) space. This interior space is
organized through a linear composition,
creating a continuous space along with
functional usage in the Glass House.
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11 Quote: “A
building has at
least two lives – the one imagined by its maker
and the life it lives afterward – and they are
never the same.”

Name of Building: China Central

Television Headquarters, also known as
“CCTV Headquarters”
Name of Architect: Rem Koolhaas
Style/s of Architecture: Deconstructivist
Architecture

Rem Koolhaas is an urbanist architect known

for his innovative and intelligent designs. Most
of his works lean towards modernist,
deconstructive, and structuralist architecture
that explores the connection between
technology and humanity. He conceptualized
the CCTV Headquarters as a building whose
three-dimensional form will offer CCTV
employees to perform the functions within a
“continuous loop”, referring to a closed-circuit
television.
Contrary to the traditional vertical high-rises,
the 234-metre-tall building consists of two L-
shaped towers, connected at the top and the
bottom at an angle to form a loop, which is
described as a ‘Z criss-cross’. A diagrid
‘exoskeleton’ system was adopted on the
external faces of the building to give a tube
structure that resists gravity and other lateral
forces. The positioning of the columns and
diagonal tubes reflects the distribution of
forces in the surface skin of the building. The
irregular geometry of the steel structure
facade gives it stability to withstand different
load conditions.
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12 Quote: “The
architect needs
to learn to see, and to open his eyes because
there is always a lesson to learn from the
streets.”

Name of Building: Milwaukee Art

Museum
Name of Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Style/s of Architecture: Neo-futurist and
Contemporary Architecture

Santiago Calatrava is an architect and

structural engineering widely known for his
soaring-like structures and bridges. According
to him, the signature design of the Milwaukee
Art Museum is the Burke Brise Soleil—the pair
of articulated wing-like kinetic structure that
frame the building. The wings serve four
purposes:
1. Crowning element of the brise soleil
(completing the composition)
2. Controlling the level of light
(Functional)
3. Opening to welcome visitors
(Symbolic)
4. Establish a memorable image for the
Museum and the city (Iconic)

Furthermore, the greatness of the is that

wings they aren’t merely wings — they are
also part of a vocabulary of organic shapes
that converse with Lake Michigan, echoing
waves and stingrays and even skeletal shapes.
The whole project responds to the culture of
the lake: sailboats, the weather, culture, the
sense of motion and change,” he said.
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13 Quote: “Function
influence but
does not dictate form.”

Name of Building: TWA Flight Center

Name of Architect: Eero Saarinen
Style/s of Architecture: Neo-futurist and
Googie Architecture

Architect Eero Saarinen is known for his

dramatic building that are characterized by
using curvilinear forms. He initially proposed
TWA Flight Center as a symmetrical
arrangement of four curved, concrete shell
roof segments which flowed seamlessly from
the piers that supported them. As viewed from
the outside, its form has a remarkable
resemblance to bird or an airplane in flight.
However, an apocryphal story that insinuate
that Saarinen’s true inspiration was not
derived from aviation, but in the hollowed-out
rind of a grapefruit he pressed down in the
middle. Whether the story is fabricated or not,
Saarinen never claimed that his design was
meant to represent anything physical; it was,
he insisted, an abstraction of the idea of flight
itself.

In terms of interior, there are hardly any right

angles or strict geometric planes to be seen.
Many of the circulation spaces were sunken
into the ground or curvilinear in form. Flight
panels were also very dramatically shaped to
look like futuristic screens that also followed
the circular and curvilinear aesthetic.

14 Quote: “Architects have to dream. We have to

search for our Atlantises, to be explorers,
adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and
well.”

Name of Building: The Shard

Name of Architect: Renzo Piano
Style/s of Architecture: Post-modernist
and Neo-futurist Architecture

Architect Renzo Piano is acclaimed for his

high-tech and post-modernist buildings. One of
his famous works, The Shard, consists of
several glass facets that incline inwards but do
not meet at the top which. His inspiration
came from the towering church spires and
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masts of ships
that once
anchored on the Thames. Its final form was
then generated by the irregular site plan and
open to the sky to allow the building to breath
naturally. Piano, designed The Shard to be a
“physical expression of the energy at the most
crowded place in London” to differentiate it
from the typical skyscrapers—which he
believes, signify arrogance and power.
15 Quote: “Architecture is like writing. You have
to edit it over and over so it looks effortless.”

Name of Building: Heydar Aliyev Center

Name of Architect: Zaha Hadid
Style/s of Architecture: Neo-futurist
Architecture

Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi-British Architect

renowned for her architecture fashion by
intensely futuristic structure characterized by
curving facades and sharp angles. The Heydar
Aliyev Center is one of her recognized works
due to its fluid form, which seemingly emerges
from the folding of the natural landscape of
the countryside and from the wrapping of the
individual functions of the interior. Her team
intended the form as a reaction to the rigid
architectures of the Soviet era as well as a
reference to Islamic calligraphy and elements
of the traditional Azeri architecture. Their
intention was to relate to that historical
understanding of architecture, not through the
use of mimicry or a limiting adherence to the
iconography of the past, but rather by
developing a firmly contemporary
interpretation, reflecting a more nuanced
understanding.
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16 Quote: “Form
follows function.”

Name of Building: Guaranty Building,

also known as “Prudential Building”
Name of Architect: Louis Sullivan
Style/s of Architecture: Art Deco
Architecture

Architect Louis Henry Sullivan was an

influential American architect, and has been
dubbed as "father of skyscrapers" and "father
of modernism." He wanted the Guaranty
Building to exude a bold architectural style
that would express the confidence and
prosperity of the United States at the end of
the 19th century. He rejected traditional
designs and celebrated the skyscraper’s
verticality.

While not immediately apparent, the Guaranty

Trust Building has a lot of natural and
geometric detailing, influenced in part by Art
Nouveau. The pattern unifies the façade while
emphasizing the terracotta sheathing over the
exterior of the building. Sullivan utilized the
horizontal layers of each floor and used
decoration to emphasize his building’s
verticality. With the massive cornice on its top
tier, this building’s exterior organization is
often compared to the tripartite design of a
classical column - with a base, piers, and an
attic - thus still referencing an historical
precedent (if only slightly).
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17 Quote:
“Architecture
belongs to culture, not to civilization.”

Name of Building: Baker House

Dormitory
Name of Architect: Louis Sullivan
Style/s of Architecture: Prairie School
Architecture

Louis Sullivan was a Finnish architect who

created his own style from an interpretation of
modernism, focused on local materials and
functionality. His works emphasize on forming
stronger connection with local culture and the
use of wood. He initially conceived Baker
House as a long linear block that is basically
true to functionalist principles, but deformed
in order to adapt to the particular conditions
of the site. Aalto defended his scheme as the
optimal solution with regard to solar
orientation, views and privacy, campus daily
activities and routes, over and above its
greater cost. Nevertheless, these two factors
prompted the client to demand a revision of
the project. The architect’s compromise, on
Aino’s suggestion, was a fan-shaped extension
to the east end of the building, which in fact
served to improve the original concept.
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18 Quote: “Supply
and demand
regulate architectural form”

Name of Building: Villa Müller

Name of Architect: Adolf Loos
Style/s of Architecture: Modernist
Architecture

Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an

Austrian architect and influential European
theorist of modern architecture. He designed
Villa Müller in the form of a simple cube
comprised by large uninterrupted areas of
smooth walls with unusually tiny windows.
This austere façade treatment is typical of
Loos’s work which incorporates his style called
the Raumplan. The Villa presents the three
major themes that marked the Viennese
architect's professional career:
1. The lack of any ornament in spatial
organisation and representation
2. The demonstration that an
architectural environment is not an
artistic expression but a response to
the concrete needs of living.
3. The application of the Raumplan
distribution rules.

Most of his works introduced architectural

solutions that were far from conventionally
"beautiful", but they were unquestionably
effective and practical. The case is the same
for Villa Müller’s façade: If viewed differently in
terms of the interior spatial organization and
efficiency of windows positioning—the viewer
will realize Loos’ goal which aimed solely at
providing suitable solutions and utilization of
spaces to live well and comfortably.
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19 Quote: "There is
a powerful need
for symbolism, and that means the
architecture must have something that appeals
to the human heart.”

Name of Building: St. Mary's Cathedral

Name of Architect: Kenzo Tange
Style/s of Architecture: Modernist and
Metabolist Architecture

Architect Kenzo Tange is known for blending

conventional Japanese structure with cutting-
edge structure principles. He designed The St.
Mary’s Cathedral, Tokyo to replace the old and
burnt wooden cathedral. He portrayed the
new church as a concrete structure, simple in
concept and complex in shape, which recalls
the lightness of a bird and its wings.

The building has a layout in the form of a

cross, from which eight hyperbolic parabolas,
rise at an angle rise, similar to a contemporary
landmark cathedral located in San Francisco,
also referred to as St. Mary’s Cathedral.
The eight walls are both the roof and walls
enclosing the building and opening to the
outside through vertical gaps. The walls are
curved hyperbolically to express the tension to
the sky, and turning the rhomboidal ground
floor into a cross at the rooftop. The interior is
a rather dark space, opposite to the exterior
surfaces that are clad in stainless steel, which
gives it a special radiance. This
dark/enlightened contrast enhance the
symbolism of the church as a religious space.
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20 Quote: “Form
follows beauty”

Name of Building: Niterói Contemporary

Art Museum, also known as “Museu de
Arte Contemporânea de Niterói (MAC)”
Name of Architect: Oscar Niemeyer
Style/s of Architecture: Modernist
Architecture

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares

Filho was a Brazilian architect who is
considered as a prominent figure in the
development of modern architecture. He is
known for his sensual, curvy, nature-inspired
designs. His style is evident in MAC’s design
which features a peculiar “inverted cone” form,
and recurrent circular motif inside and outside
the museum. Although it is often described as
UFO-like, Niemeyer’s poetic intention was for
the form to emerge "from the ground" and
"continuously grow and spread," like a flower
that rises from the rocks. This corresponds to
Nieyemer’s “natural” intuitive solution in terms
of choosing the cliffside as its location: build
an elegant, curvy structure that rises from a
water basin, creating an ambient sense of
lightness and allowing for full panoramic views
of Sugar-Loaf Mountain and the Guanabara
Bay. These ideas fulfilled his goal of a building
that is integrated with the landscape, looking
like a natural element of the bay.
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21 Quote:
“Architecture is
measured against the past; you build in the
future, and you try to imagine the future.”

Name of Building: The Millennium Dome

Name of Architect: Richard Rogers
Style/s of Architecture: Modernist and
High-tech Architecture

Richard Rogers was a pioneer of the style

dubbed "high-tech architecture", also known
as structural expressionism. This style tends to
boldly display the inner functions of a building
as a part of its design. He applied this “inside-
out” style on his iconic work, The Millennium
Dome, with sustainability being the prime
consideration of the design.

The concept of the dome took inspiration from

time and the heavens. His team and partners
tracked the trajectories of stars and comets
from dawn until dusk, plotting their celestial
paths onto early concept models of the Dome.
The panels of the canopy are based on the
cosmic lines of longitude and latitude.
The Greenwich Meridian Line, which passes
just meters from the Dome, provided
additional inspiration with allusions to the
concept of time within the design. The 12
support towers represent the 12 hours, 12
months and 12 constellations of the sky. The
Dome is 52 meters at its highest point,
representing the 52 weeks of the year. Each
span is 365 meters apart, symbolic of the
numbers of days in a standard year. There are
24 scalloped edges at the base of the canopy,
for each hour of the day.
22 Quote: “The responsibility of an architect is to
create a sense of order, a sense of place, a
sense of relationship.”

Name of Building: MACBA Barcelona

Museum of Contemporary Art
Name of Architect: Richard Meier
Style/s of Architecture: Rationalist
Architecture

Richard Meier is an American architect

acknowledged for his precise interpretation of
Modernist principles. For the MACBA, Meyer
designed a building shaped like a large box,
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clad in white
enamel-painted
steel panels, flanked by a circular pavilion on
its west end. Meier combined straight lines
with curved lines to establish a dialogue
between the indoor and outdoor light that
enters the building through skylights and large
galleries.
23 Quote: “The speed of change makes you
wonder what will become of architecture.”

Name of Building: Church of Light

Name of Architect: Tadao Ando
Style/s of Architecture: Modernist and
Minimalist Architecture

Tadao Ando is a self-taught Japanese architect

whose approach to architecture and landscape
was categorized by architectural historian
Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". The
Church of the Light is characterized by the
resounding and abstract prismatic concrete
volume that forms it, which is crossed by an
oblique concrete wall and into whose dark
interior the light penetrates in a poetic way
through the cross that is cut out on the altar
wall. Ando wanted the believers that come
there to be united by this powerful symbol. He
also wanted to create an effect wherein
visitors are able to see the after image of the
cross when they close their eyes.

The employment of simplistic materials

reinforces the light/dark duality of the space;
the concrete structure removes any distinction
of traditional Christian motifs and aesthetic.
As a testament to minimalist architecture, the
crosses void in the east facing wall is the only
prominent religious symbol present in the
church.
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24 Quote:
“Architecture is
the reaching out for the truth.”

Name of Building: Phillips Exeter

Academy Library
Name of Architect: Louis Kahn
Style/s of Architecture: Monumental and
Modern Brutalist Architecture

Louis Kahn was an influential modern architect

recognized for his monumental and brutal
style that highlights the materials used in the
construction of buildings. The design of Phillips
Exeter Academy Library was a response to the
building committee’s request which specified
that the new library should be “unpretentious,
though in a handsome, inviting contemporary
style.” Kahn accordingly made the building’s
exterior relatively undramatic, suitable for a
small New England town. Its facade is
primarily brick with teak wood panels at most
windows marking the location of a pair of
wooden carrels. The bricks are load-bearing.
Kahn calls this fact to the viewer’s attention by
making the brick piers noticeably thicker at the
bottom where they have more weight to bear.

25 Quote: “Each new situation requires a new

architecture.”

Name of Building: Agbar Tower

Name of Architect: Jean Nouvel
Style/s of Architecture: Bioclimatic
Architecture

Jean Nouvel is a French architect who broke

the aesthetic of modernist and post-modernist
architecture to create a stylistic language all
his own. His works embodies mass and
emptiness, light and darkness, traditional and
contemporary contrast. This architectural
juxtaposition is what makes his works
phenomenal.

For the Agbar Tower, the water company

requested a structure that adapts to the new
times and that meets the requirements of their
current growth. concrete. Its form was
inspired by Montserrat, a mountain near
Barcelona, and by the shape of a geyser rising
into the air. The surface of the building evokes
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water: smooth
and continuous,
bright and transparent, its materials reveal
themselves in nuanced shades of color and
light. The different architectural concepts
combined resulted in a striking structure built
with reinforced concrete, covered with a
facade of glass, and over 4,500 window
openings cut out of the structural concrete.

WINNERS OF THE PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE

ARCHITECT YEAR

Philip Johnson 1979

Richard Meier 1984

Kenzo Tange 1987

Frank Gehry 1989

Renzo Pianor 1998

Norman Foster 1999

Rem Koolhas 2000

Zaha Hadid 2004

Richard Rogers 2007

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