What Does It Mean to Build Bauhaus “On Brand”?
in 2019, the Bauhaus turned 100 and a crop of museum buildings sprang up for the celebration.
in 2019, the Bauhaus turned 100 and a crop of museum buildings sprang up for the celebration.
The Modernist architect Richard Neutra designed dozens of homes in and around his adopted city of Los Angeles, each one invariably rational, limpid, and generous. These qualities were underscored by Neutra’s wife, Dione, when, later in life, she wrote how “[o]nly those, who have lived in a Neutra house, would ever understand how wonderful the daily satisfactions and delights are and how much this experience helps to augment the joy of living.”
Anna Saint Pierre’s Granito project is harvesting the ingredients for new architectural building blocks from demolished structures.
This Article was originally published on Metropolis Magazine here.
On its outskirts, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Columbus, Indiana is a suburban American town like any other. But travel downtown and you’re suddenly greeted with an unexpected variety of modern architecture. The small midwestern city has for the past half-century been a kind of laboratory for contemporary architecture, attracting designers as diverse as Kevin Roche and IM Pei. Children attend school in a building designed by Richard Meier, congregants attend services in a church designed by Eliel Saarinen.
On its outskirts, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Columbus, Indiana is a suburban American town like any other. But travel downtown and you’re suddenly greeted with an unexpected variety of modern architecture. The small midwestern city has for the past half-century been a kind of laboratory for contemporary architecture, attracting designers as diverse as Kevin Roche and IM Pei. Children attend school in a building designed by Richard Meier, congregants attend services in a church designed by Eliel Saarinen.
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