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S.NO. Architect Building 1 Building 2

The document provides information about various prominent architects and some of their notable buildings. It includes details about 16 architects and their approaches including Oscar Niemeyer, Louis Kahn, Hassan Fathy, Kenzo Tange, Robert Venturi, Archigram, Michael Graves, Charles Moore, Charles Jencks, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Siza, Tadao Ando, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, and Louis Sullivan. For each architect, 1-2 of their representative buildings are described along with stylistic approaches like modernism, postmodernism, vernacular design, deconstructivism, and critical regionalism.

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S.NO. Architect Building 1 Building 2

The document provides information about various prominent architects and some of their notable buildings. It includes details about 16 architects and their approaches including Oscar Niemeyer, Louis Kahn, Hassan Fathy, Kenzo Tange, Robert Venturi, Archigram, Michael Graves, Charles Moore, Charles Jencks, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Siza, Tadao Ando, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, and Louis Sullivan. For each architect, 1-2 of their representative buildings are described along with stylistic approaches like modernism, postmodernism, vernacular design, deconstructivism, and critical regionalism.

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S.NO.

ARCHITECT BUILDING 1 BUILDING 2

1 OSCAR NIEMEYER MUSEUM OS OSCAR CATHEDRAL OF BRASSILIA


POST MODERNISM NIEMEYER (THE EYE) 16 Huge columns like hands
Reopened; change of opening to heaven,
annex; sinuous ramps, weighing 90 tonnes each;
colourful murals; plain most of the cathedral is
facade below the ground;
surrounded by water body
4 sculptures which
represent evangelists
2 LOUIS I KAHN SALK INSTITUTE PHILIPS EXTER ACADEMY
MODERNISM Symmetrical; wood and LIBRARY
cement, different colours 4 concentric squares; 1.
of wood; stream of water Brick wall faade, 2. Support
in middle for book shelves, 3.
Dramatic atrium with
circular openings in walls
3 HASSAN FATHY GOURNA VILLAGE WINDCATCHERS
VERNACULAR Low cost housing,
vernacular material
4 KENZO TANGE YOYOGI STADIUM HIROSHIMA PEACE
JAPANESE+MODERNISM Suspension roof; designed MEMORIAL MUSEUM
for Olympics of 1960 Vertical element, raised to a
height on pilotis 6m high;
rough concrete faade;
open spaces for gathering
Peace plaza in backdrop,
Japanese arch in plaza.
5 ROBERT VENTURI VANNA VENTURI HOUSE GUILD HOUSE
(less is bore) Complexity and Inelegant windows; red
POST MODERNISM contradiction; monumental clay; 6 storey; symmetrical
faade; hole in the wall
windows; basement; 5
rooms; 9m high; non-
structural arch
6 ARCHIGRAM THE PLUG IN CITY INSTANT CITY
PETER COOK, WARREN THE WALKING CITY INTERCHANGE PROJECT
CHALK, RON HERRON THE LIVING CITY KUNSTHAUS BUILDING,
AUSTRIA (only built
project)
7 FIVE NEW YORK MICHAEL GRAVES JOHN HEJDUCK
ARCHITECTS CHARLES GWAETHNEY RICHARD MEIER
PETER EINSENMAN
8 MICHAEL GRAVES HITLER KETTLE, ST. COLLETE SCHOOL
POST MODERNISM PORTLAND BUILDING Non-profit school for special
(most hated building in children; Geometrical
America); lots of small shapes, colour coded
windows; many colours; houses with gardens for
Next to Portland city hall easy access of children
9 CHARLES MOORE PIAZZA DIITALIA
POST MODERNISM Deteriorated; forgotten
next to surrounding
development; redesigned;
colourful; historic elements
10 CHARLES JENCKS GARDEN OF COSMIC OLYMPIC FOREST PARK,
POST MODERNISM SPECULATION, SCOTLAND BEIJING
For late wife; over a very Ying-yang; pulling towards
large area of land; series of the black-hole centre; sense
sculptures, landforms, of gravity
terraces, gardens etc.
11 NORMAN FOSTER THE GHERKIN HEARST TOWER
41 floors,180m height; 41st Triangulated method, saves
floor panoramic view, 20% reinforcement; base of
40th floor bar; 37th floor the tower is 6 storey;
restaurant; 38th floor atrium, heat conducting
private dining. Office limestone; green building,
building, triangulated rain water harvesting
design, lesser load of glass waters plants and floor
faade; green building, 6 system and water fall that
shafts, natural ventilation; cools the insides; tubing
double glazing, provides under floor for warmth in
insulation. winters and cooling in
summers; 85% recycled
material; 26% lesser energy
consumption
12 REM KOOLHAS CCTV HEADQUARTERS SEATTLE CENTERAL LIBRARY
DECONSTRUCTIVIST 234m tall; divided into 6 11-storey building; library in
horizontal and vertical levels according to use; 56
sections; structural m high; floating platforms,
challenge, seismic zone; 12 glass and steel building;
studios for TV making functions dictated form
13 ALDARO SIZA BOA TEA HOUSE SERPENTINE GALLERY,2003
POETIC MODERNISM Vernacular; platforms and Exhibition in 2003; structure
staircases made of grid
14 TADAO ANDO CHURCH OF LIGHT KOBE WATERFRONT PLAZA
CRITICAL REGIONALISM Solid/ void; stark/ serene; Recreational plaza, sports,
nature, geometry, outdoor auditorium; next to
substance; concrete waterfront; nature,
structure to replace the geometry, substance;
existing structure, reserve area for refugees
minimalist architecture and fire barrier
15 PETER EISENMAN HOUSE VI HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
FUTURISTIC, Criticized for physical Concrete blocks; 2.38 X .95,
DECONSTRUCTIVISM problems, difficult to use; height varies from 0.2 to
4D design and 4.8m
manipulation
16 ZAHA HADID PHAENO SCIENCE CENTRE CONTEMPORARY ARTS
DECONSTRUCTIVIST Contemporary design, CENTRE (CAC)
raised on stilts; thicker at Galleries float over main
the bottom to support the lobby; series of ramps; inter
structure; use of stilts to connection like 3D jigsaw
give free space for the puzzle; concrete, glass and
people; the base of the steel
building is illuminated,
concrete
17 LOUIS SULLIVAN AUDITORIUM BUILDING WAINWRIGHT BUILDING
(father of skyscrapers) 3- tier- the base, the shaft, Steel clad masonry; 3 tier-
the capital; 18- storey The base, the shaft, the
office, 10 storey hotel; capital(cornice); the upper
base is the auditorium, floors have round bullnose
exterior rough granite; rest windows; structure
is sandstone; the interiors promotes verticality; H
are ornamented and shaped pan; organic
decorated as compared to embellishments
the plain exterior
18 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FALLING WATERS GUGGENHIEM MUSEUM,
MODERNIST Built over water stream NEW YORK CITY
called Bear run; use of Museum built as a ramp;
rocks and stones to give the ramp/ building widens
earthy look; glass windows, at the top; the walls are
no visual imparity; inclined outwards from the
outdoors to inside; ramp; white- serene colour;
cantilevered platforms; light is provided through
relaxation house the skylight; shell shaped
structure
19 WALTER GROUPIS FAGUS SHOE FACTORY BAHAUS SCHOOL
MODERNIST Revolution in modern Building divided into zones
buildings; 3 storey; glass according to use; the
faade with minimum workshop is connected to
walls; steel piers support school by a 2-storey raised
the glass which run bridge on piers;
vertically; the glass faade asymmetrical; retractable
is continued along the walls
corners, glass faade
makes the building less
imposing and lighter;
provides light
20 MEIS VANDER ROHE FARNSWORTH HOUSE BARCELONA PAVILLION
(less is more) Minimalist building; 56 Hold worlds art fair;
MODERNIST plinth; 8 I sections; glass Asymmetrical; glass steel;
wall faade; white- serene; interior wall of marble and
wiring etc. below floor or travertine; load bearing
from the core; steel and walls; 8 steel posts,
glass; 28ft X 77ft glass box concrete roof; next to
oblong pool; loosely
connected spaces
21 CORBUSIER VILLA SAVOYE RONCHAMP

22 CHANDIGARH ALBERT MAYER CORBUSIER


23 RAJ REWAL ASIAD VILLAGE,1982 PARLIAMENT LIBRARY
CRITICAL REGIONALISM
24 F.W. STEVENS VICTORIA TERMINUS
INDO-SARCENIC REVIVAL
ARCHITECTURE
25 WILLIAM EMERSON VICTORIA MEMORIAL
INDO- SARCENIC REVIVAL
ARCHITECTURE
26 EDWARD LUTYENS PARLIAMENT
INDO-SARCENIC
ARCHITECTURE
27 LAURIE BAKER HAMLET
VERNACULAR
LOW COST HOUSING

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