To encourage exploration of various architects and buildings, I will post an image of a new building on a weekly basis, so we may all play "Name that Architect and Building!!!". Sorry to be lame, but I'm sort of tired of hearing how wonderful Rem is or how everyone hates Gehry. Let's get some other guys on the table, instead of regurgitating the same thing. Anyway,



I hope this link works

try this:




and i know who it is, but not because i'm some scholar, i just stumbled onto it by mistake. someone else can field this one. plus, it ain't like this guy is some nobody.

VSB

whoops - overposting tuesdays....

phillip seymour hofman?

This was a basic image in our architecture history class. Seriously, are "you kids" not learning about VSBA these days? ;-)

Actually, the building was done by Venturi and Rauch.

so how does this work then? the first person to guess correctly gets to choose the next building?

Ah, thanks for the correction, supernal.

its a copy of my 'guess the lyrics' thread which was, in case you dont recall, wildly popular! first one to get it post a new building! go go go

i dont like the 'tude in that post... please ignore it

That sounds good, who ever gets the building and architect right first, moves on to post the next one.

Ready, set, go!

supernal, please post your contribution....

No one named the building yet--Columbus [Indiana] Fire Station.

Will post next image soon.

can you at least post a pic of a building that isn't flipping me off?

hint: one of the 'transformations'--structural form: expressionism 1962-71

mmm...guessing here but the above project could be from Gottfried Bohm?

that's not it, but very good guess. same language, but not same country. and to be honest I never even heard of the architect until recently

supernal, that's a tough one. i have a feeling whoever figures this out will have had to have visited the project. i'm eager to find out who this brutalist is.

Saint-Nicholas

Heremence, Switzerland

Architect - Walter Maria Forderer

Congratulations! mdler reads drexler.

Actually, the project is in the July issue of Interior Design magazine...

my turn

conoid studio by george nakashima

i thought i'd figured out a trick, right-click and get link, but some of you were smarter than that...

i personally just recognized the furniture.

contemporary building obviously...it may have been published once
or twice.

easy. my ex-girlfriend went to school there and i saw that whole thing go up. parked in it a few times too.

wellesley college police station/parking structure adj. to their new student center by mack scogin merril elam ...

oh. the pkg structure is actually known as "Davis Parking"

yup yup.

(sorry to interject, but just noticed jafidler's post above)

jafidler, you might be interested in looking through Arthur Drexler's Transformations in Modern Architecture (MoMA exhibition book, 1979). It's full of less well known 1960s-1970s buildings that look very inspiring today. Got a copy via eBay about a year ago and it's interesting to now look for images of the buildings online. I've been planning a 'reenactment' of the 1979 exhibition at Quondam for several months now. Looks like it will finally happen.

guess it's my turn? continuing on college campuses...

posted this on my blog any guesses?

'philia, is that by felix candela?

St. Louis Abbey (or the Priory Chapel)
Gyo Obata of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK) with Pier Luigi Nervi, consultant
1962
the image url is a give away

a center for ants?, can you provide more of the building? or should we just move on?

i'll post some images... but the URLs are giveaways so no cheating...




apologize for the large images...

i am trying hard not to cheat, but it smells like charles moore to me...knowing that it's in a college campus would be enough for me to do some research and find out if it's him, and what building is it...but i don't know if that would be cheating

so i know it's charles moore now..kind of new it at first..just couldn't
find an image to prove it.

so, what are the game rules...would internet research (without looking at your images url be considered cheating?), or do you have to know the architect and specific building by memory alone?

williams college museum of art by charles moore 1981 or so

and i didn't cheat with the url..i just saw the second image yesterday
when i was trying to figure out where the column image was from.

simples
i think the fun part is bein allowed to try and do some research
going with a hunch and proving it to be correct.

lars...see...i recognized that pomo stench right away!

a building i admire every time i visit it...living architect..not in the u.s.

should be more like ' a building that i greatly admire and visit
whenever i get the chance..'

Storhamar Farm, Sverre Fehn ?

bravo lars. went there for undergrad. the capitals are roll-your-eyes attributed to the ironic" order.

more specific:
Barn from Storhamar Farn--Hedmarksmuseet, Sverre Fehn

well that was quick...wasn't sure if that building was obscure or not..

lars, very obscure for me, sensed it was scadinavian so googled fehn (lucky guess) barn and a similar image showed up, followed links. very neat building; inside looks way cool.

now I think of whats next...stay tuned

it's a very nice collection of buildings actually...he's actually added
a couple buildings fairly recently that are also pretty nice.

hey Orhan, you have to guess correctly to post a picture. you're stepping on some toes here! ;-)
if I could I'd bitch slap you right now

I'm still posting my next pic!

btw, that building looks very reminisent of some school building Giurgola did in Italy in the early 1980s

was there rule like that? i sorry. it ain't gargonzola btw.

1920s, not my neighborhood, though I wish it was

that one is a total beautiful contridiction. it must be in phili. nice asymetry.

not in philadelphia, but yes, a contradiction

you gave that one away, supernal.

brazini, church of the cuore immaculata di maria santissima, rome

this may be too much of softball, but i think we need an easy one after many of these.

Bravo. I see you did look in the book, because the architects name correctly is Brasini, Armando. Anyway, Orhan first mentioned contradiction, so, you get close and the clues get better.

I wanna see what you're gonna post!

SOM?, something on Park Avenue?

just for the curiosity trivia. that tiled roof building with a rotunda i posted above, is the student center in st. monica's school in santa monica. architect is frank gehry.

sorry, orhan, didn't mean to jump in.

Pepsi Building New york city by natalie de blois.. i think she worked with som on this one but not sure.

nice job, beefeaters. i think bunshaft was the head designer.

now admit it, did you cheat to know that natalie de blois worked on it with bunshaft? i didn't know that till i found the image.

no , we studied her work in a survey class, my classmate presented prominent modernist female architects

btw, the jagged line in the landscape, not the building behind

nice, beefeaters. sounds like a great course.

know what it is but I cheated
nice project

and its not the one in Ohio

since i was a tiny part of a clue, can i post a 'small' building to be guessed?

finally, one i know!!!

beefeaters, that's an escalater in spain by elias torres.

Orhan, if you keep this up, you'll have to be sent to the prinicpal's office!

principal doesn't want to have anything to do with me anymore...

i know supernal knows the answer. but i am just curious how he is gonna put it out.

Orhan, I'm pretty sure that's someplace in the back of Steven Holl's mind.

and in the backs of many other's minds.
clue;
it ain't machine but sure is a good livin'.

Orhan that's the architects cabin by Le Corbusier isn't it?

techno is correct right? do you have the next image ready?

this game is great. i'm so impressed whenever anyone comes up with the answer to one of these.

and i think i would take "someplace in the back of Steven Holl's mind" as a correct answer. ha.

keep it coming, techno.

yes, it's techno's turn.

Wait, Cris guessed "escalater in spain by elias torres" correctly. I was waiting for him to post a building.

oh yeah, orhan jumped. to the principal's office!

i guess whoever can post first - techno or cris.

I love this thread!

Orhan, you know you won't get in trouble for anything you choose to do around here. As long as Brad Pitt doesn't hear about it, that is.

it's great, ain't it!?

i'm learning something!

ok, this one is probably too easy, but let's see who knows.

Hey! That guy stole my staircase idea for my sophmore year rowhouse design.

ha ha ha, sarah, in my third year rowhouse design, i stole it too!

Casa Barragan - Luis Barragan - Mexico City

that's correct.
Joseph D'Urso did a very similar staircase in a NYC apartment in the early 1980s.

Another spanish speaker

Dang, I know this one.....and I can't think of it....so I'm going to throw out Alvaro Siza even though I'm 99.9% certain it's wrong.

I know what it is because I cheated. Not Siza. It's in Uruguay if that helps. 1958-60.

Eladio Dieste

Eladio Dieste - Church of Christ the Worker - Uruguay

damn emaze beat me, should have refreshed

Iglesia de Atlántida, Uruguay

i think this was linked to another thread somewhere?

Siza no speaky Spanish.

phuyaka can have the credit, I just named the architect and not the building (can I have reserve 1/2 the right to post when the thread remains unresponsive for two or so days?)...

yeah this thread, that's where I remember seeing it

Yay Dieste is correct! Oddly enough, a Siza building was my other choice...
Continue!

Anyone remember the older version of this thread?

well thanks emaze.
so here's mine: