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Kenzo Tange, Tokyo Bay Project (1960).

Kenzo Tange, Tokyo Bay Project (1960)
Top: Design for Caen-Herouville by Shadrach Woods of Team X, published
in Urbanism Is Everybody's Business (Stuttgart: Karl Krmer, 1968)
Bottom: A new urban structure imposed upon an older fabric.
Based on a drawing by Yona Friedman in L'Architecture Mobile
(Tournai, Belgium: Casterman, 1970.)
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Kenzo Tange, Tokyo Bay Project (1960); transit network and housing quarters
The 1933
rendering of Plan
Obus for Algiers
demonstrates Le
Corbusier's
superimposition of
modern forms: the
long arching
roadway that
includes housing-
his viaduct city-
connecting central
Algiers to its
suburbs and the
curvilinear
complex of
housing in the
heights that
accesses the
waterfront
business district
via an elevated
highway bypassing
the Casbah.
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Paul Rudolph, Lower
Manhattan Expressway
project, 1970, and Hans
Hollein (Austrian), Aircraft
Carrier (original title is
Flugzeugtrger, 1964)
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The Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
Ronald Reagan is 1,092 feet long, towering 20 stories
above the waterline, home to 6,000 sailors, carrying
more than 80 aircraft, with a 4.5 acre flight deck and a
cruising speed in excess of 30 knots (34.5 mph).
Archigram, Project for A Walking City, 1964
.
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Peter Cook in 2004, with
Plug-In City project and
issue #4, Archigram 4
.
Archigram, The Cushicle, an portable, inflatable environment, 1965
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Kisho Kurokawa, Nakagin Capsule Tower, 1972: 140 detachable spatial units
joined to a central core for services and circulation
Peter Cook, Museum
of Contemporary Art,
Graz, Austria, 2003
.
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Cedric Price, Project for a Fun Palace, 1962
(for a brief but very literate curatorial statement go to
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/gsap/54880 )
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Buckminster Fuller with his model for the Dymaxion House, 1929
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Case Study House #8,
Charles and Ray
Eames, 1949, Los
Angeles (Pacific
Palisades)
Le Corbusier,
Pavilion for the
Paris Decorative
Arts Exhibition of
1925, Pavilion
LEsprit Nouveau
9
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Case Study House #8,
Charles and Ray
Eames
.
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Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig, 1959-60, perspective view
Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig, 1959-60 the free-floating roof shelter
oriented to an expansive panorama.
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Case Study
House #22,
Pierre Koenig,
1959-60, plan
Julius Shulman,
Photograph of Case
Study House #22
(Pierre Koenig,
architect, Los
Angeles, 195960),
1960
.
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Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig, 1959-60, glamorization of a CA
landscape and lifestyle
.
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Superstudio, founded 1966 by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Roberto
Magris, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro Magris and Alessandro Poli. 1969 project: The
Continuous Monument, An Architectural Model For Total Urbanisation, 1969-71
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The Continuous Monument, An Architectural Model For Total Urbanisation, 1969-71
Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, friends since early boyhood, combine the
Archigram/Cedric Price/Case Study House sensibilities and win a major
competition for the Pompidou Centre, Paris, 1971-77
Competition drawing of facade, 1971
Competition drawing showing section, 1971
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Rogers and Piano, Pompidou Centre, 1977
Rogers and Piano, Pompidou Centre, entry faade from plaza
Rogers and Piano, Pompidou Centre, infrastructure on facade
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Cutaway view of
Pompidou Centre,
1971
.