The questioner is: Who will be the next Pritzker Prize winners?

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture".Founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker family and is considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes.

Every year, architects present their best work for the prize and wish for the best, but sometimes you can tell who will win it especially in the dark economic year that we went through. The whole construction is generally in a bad shape yet we see outstanding design as designers compete for the few jobs coming up. So who knows, we might see fewer project but better quality.

Additionally, according to the prize's site, any licensed architect may submit a nomination to the Executive Director for consideration by the jury for the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Nominations are accepted through November 1 of any given year.

2010 Jury Members:

Lord Peter Palumbo, 2005-present (Chair)

Alejandro Aravena, 2009-present

Rolf Fehlbaum, 2004-present

Carlos Jimenez, 2001-present

Juhani Pallasmaa, 2009-present

Renzo Piano, 2006-present

Karen Stein, 2004-present

Martha Thorne, 2005-present (Executive Director)

Pritzker Prize winners

Philip Johnson (1979) · Luis Barragán (1980) · James Stirling (1981) · Kevin Roche (1982) · I. M. Pei (1983) · Richard Meier (1984) · Hans Hollein (1985) · Gottfried Böhm (1986) · Kenzo Tange (1987) · Gordon Bunshaft / Oscar Niemeyer (1988) · Frank Gehry (1989) · Aldo Rossi (1990) · Robert Venturi (1991) · Álvaro Siza Vieira (1992) · Fumihiko Maki (1993) · Christian de Portzamparc (1994) · Tadao Ando (1995) · Rafael Moneo (1996) · Sverre Fehn (1997) · Renzo Piano (1998) · Norman Foster (1999) · Rem Koolhaas (2000) · Herzog & de Meuron (2001) · Glenn Murcutt (2002) · Jørn Utzon (2003) · Zaha Hadid (2004) · Thom Mayne (2005) · Paulo Mendes da Rocha (2006) · Richard Rogers (2007) · Jean Nouvel (2008) · Peter Zumthor (2009)

A discussion with Pritzker Prize Winners Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Renzo Piano.

This interview happened to be pretty interesting.

Building of the year award 2009, RIBA award was won by Lord Richard Rogers with his amazing building, The Maggie's Centre, London.

The building was opened to the public by Nigella Lawson and Maggie's Patron, Sarah Brown, on 29 April 2008.

The small, orange building with a roof that seems to float above it has enlivened a challenging corner of Fulham Palace Road, with a tranquil garden leading up to the entrance. Stone sculptures and wooden benches provide welcome and pleasant places to sit along the winding path to the front door.

Designed on a domestic scale, the centre's heart is the double-height kitchen, from which the three sitting rooms, library, courtyard gardens and a number of other spaces for more private or personal conversations, open. Light fills the interior, coming through the glazed walls at first floor level and through openings in the roof.

Despite being on a busy main road, the centre is surprisingly quiet inside, thanks to the protection of the wall and birch trees which wrap around it. The birch-faced ply and fair-face concrete finishes and furnishings - that include rugs by Paolo Lenti and furniture by Alvar Aalto - add to the relaxed, homely atmosphere.

Since opening its doors, the team at Maggie's have welcomed a constant stream of visitors with cups of tea, knowledge and support, as well as a wide range of events and activities, from lunch clubs to yoga. Maggie's Centre, London is already receiving in the region of 50 visitors per day.

Building also won the Civic Trust award see link

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"What's so hot about Frank Gehry?" Pollack asks in the opening narration, anticipating the average viewer's skepticism about the purpose of such a movie. "What's the big deal?"

The buildings Gehry has designed are the best answer to that question, and Pollack shows plenty of them, including his masterpiece, Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum. (Frank Gehry page on Wikipedia) While most architects deal with straight lines and easily defined geometric shapes, Gehry favors bizarre curves, twists and oddly proportioned shapes, an exciting blend of form and function. A regular building is a police artist's sketch. A Frank Gehry building is a Picasso painting.

Gehry himself, born Ephraim Goldberg in 1929 (he changed to the less Jewish "Gehry" in the '50s at the behest of his then-wife), comes across as a garrulous, likable old crank, not the loony eccentric you'd expect from viewing his work. He's pragmatic and realistic about his designs and the way they're perceived, mindful of his critics (though he tries not to be) and always aware that a building must be useful in addition to being beautiful.

The film itself is straightforward and functional, following Gehry around in his work but avoiding any particular "plot." We see him build scale models with his assistants, while interviews with admirers (and even a detractor or two) fill out the details.



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Grand design, the french style, Jacques Rougerie, a French architect, is one of the most interesting architects/designers out there. He has drawn space stations, sea vessels and underwater habitats. He will be my project for the next few weeks, here is a list of his upcoming work:

• Aquaspace, a trimaran
• Aquascope
• The Galathée houses or the structures Hippocampus and Aquabulle.
• Sea To orbit, in collaboration with the oceanographer Jacques Piccard and the astronaut Christian Jean-Wolf.
• The underwater archaeological museum of Alexandria in Egypt

Here some pictures of this amazing underwater archaeological museum:

I wanted to share this amazing lecture by Sir Norman Forster with you:



Foster was born in the Reddish area of Stockport, England,[2] to a working-class family. He was naturally gifted and performed well at school and took an interest in architecture, particularly in the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.

Leaving school at 16, he worked in the Manchester City Treasurer's office before joining National Service in the Royal Air Force. After he was discharged, in 1956 Foster attended the University of Manchester's School of Architecture and City Planning (graduating in 1961). Later, he won the Henry Fellowship to the Yale School of Architecture, where he met former business partner Richard Rogers and earned his Master's degree. He then travelled in America for a year, returning to the UK in 1962 where he set up an architectural practice as Team 4 with Rogers and their respective girlfriends, the sisters Georgie and Wendy Cheesman. Georgie (later Wolton) was the only one of the team that had passed her RIBA exams allowing them to set up in practice on their own. Team 4 quickly earned a reputation for high-tech industrial design.

Foster has established an extremely prolific career in the span of four decades. The following are some of his major constructions:

Proposed or under construction

Torre Caja Madrid under construction (September 2008).
APIIC Tower,Hyderabad, India (2007-2010)
Torre Caja Madrid, Madrid, Spain (2004-2008)
Black Sea Gardens, Byala, Bulgaria (2008)
Tower, Cork, Republic of Ireland, (2008-2011)
Culture and Leisure Centre, Ciudad del Motor de Aragón[1], Alcañiz, Spain (2007) (competition won)
Tivoli Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark (2010) (competition won)
Museum of Aviation, Getafe, Spain (currently in design phase)
200 Greenwich Street, Tower 2 of the planned reconstruction of the World Trade Center in New York City, United States (currently in design phase)
Reconstruction of New Holland Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia (ongoing)
Russia Tower, Moscow, Russia (2007 – 2011)
U2 Tower, Dublin, Ireland (2008-2011) (competition won)
Spinningfield Square, Manchester, England (2005 – 2010)
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Dallas, United States (2009)
The Bow, Calgary, Canada (2009)
The Troika, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2004 – 2009)
Queen's Dock, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow, Scotland (2004 – 2007)
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Middlesex Guildhall, London, United Kingdom (2009)
Khan Shatyry in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Masdar City, Abu Dhabi (announced 2007)
New Yale School of Management campus, New Haven, CT (announced September 4, 2007)
Camp Nou stadium, Barcelona, Spain (announced September 18, 2007)
Crystal Island, Moscow, Russia

Completed

• Reichstag dome at night
• Dresden Hauptbahnhof roof and cupola
  
• Metropolitan Building in Warsaw
  
• New Elephant House, Copenhagen Zoo, Copenhagen, Denmark (2007–2008)
  
• International Terminal, Beijing Capital International Airport, Beijing, China (2007)
  
• John Spoor Broome Library, Cal State Channel Islands. (2006–2008)
  
• Kogod Courtyard, Center for American Art and Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2004–2007)[15]
  
• Lumiere residences, Sydney, Australia (2007–2008)
  
• Thomas Deacon Academy (2005–2007)

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Tadao Ando was born in 1941 in Osaka, Japan. Growing up in that city as Japan recovered prom the war, Tadao Ando spent the most of time out of doors, and was raised by his grandmother, whose name was "ando". From the age of 10 to 17 Tadao Ando worked at local carpenter, where Tadao Ando learned how to work with wood and built a number of models of airplanes and ships. His studying was very unusual. "I was never a good student. I always prefered learning things on my own outside of class. When I was about 18, I started to wisit temples, shrines and tea houses in Kyoto and nara; There's a lot of great traditional architecture in the area. I was studying architecture by going to see actual building, and reading books about them." His first interest in architecture was nourished in tadao's 15 by buying a book of Le Corbusier sketches. "I traced the drawings of his early period so many times, that all pages turned black," says Tadao Ando: "in my mind I quite often wonder how Le Corbusier would have thought about this project or that."

Tadao Ando took a number of visits to the United States, Europe and Africa in the period between 1962 and 1969. It was certainly at that time that Tadao Ando began to form his own ideas about architectural design, before founding Tadao Ando Architectural & Associates in Osaka in 1969. Tadao Ando 's winner of many prestigous architectural awards, for example Carlsberg Prize (1992), Pritzker Prize (1995), Praemium Imperiale (1996), Gold Medal of Royal Institute of British Architects (1997) and now is one of the most highly respected architect in the world, influencing an entire generation of students.

The first impression of his architecture is its materiality. His large and powerfull walls set a limit. A second impression of his work is the tactility. His hard walls seem soft to touch, admit light, wind and stillness. Third impression is the emptiness, because only light space surround the visitor in Tadao Ando 's building.
Other things that had influenced his work and vocabulary of architecture is the pantheon in Rome and "enso", which is mysterious circle drawn by zen-budhists and symbolizing emptiness, loneliness, oneness and the moment of englightment. The circle and other rigorous geometrical forms are the basic forms of Tadao Ando 's art presentation.

First Tadao Ando 's realisation was Row House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka in 1975. This mentioned building was a simple block building, inserted into a narrow street of row houses. This residence is immediately noticeable because of its blank concrete fasade punctuated only by doorway. The whole object space is divided into a three equal rectangular spaces, while the central part is atrium. The space nearest the doorway contains the living room at ground level, and the bedroom above. The last final space contains the kitchen and bathtroom below, and the master bedroom above. Build in the wooden residential area above the port city of Kobe.

The Koshino House, second realisation of Tadao Ando, was completed in two phrases (1980-81 and 1983-84). This house is a masterpiece, and collects all fragments of Tadao Ando 's architectonical vocabulary, mainly the light. "Such things as light and wind only have meaning when they are introduced inside a house in a form cut off from the outside world. The forms I have created have altered and acquiered meaning through elementary nature (light and air) that give indications of the passage of time and changing of the seasons

All Tadao Ando 's work is characteristically simple, and we can find similar forms in the first half of 20th century: "I am interested in a dialogue with the architecture of the past", Tadao Ando says, "but it must be filtered through my own vision and my own experience. I am indebted to Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but the same way, I take what they did and interpret it in my own fashion."

One of the first projects to bring international attention to Tadao Ando was his Rokko Housing I. (Kobe, Hyogo, 1981-83), which is situated much further down the slope of the Rokko Moutains than the Koshino house, this complex is wedged into a restricted site on a south-facing 60 degrees slope. Each of the 20 units is 5,4 x 4,8 m in size, and each has a terrace looking out towards the bush harbour of Kobe. Why was this monumental resident building so successful ? " I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible"

Some years later, Tadao Ando build a second housing complex, adjacent to Rokko Housing I. (Rokko Housing II.). Four times larger than the original building, this structure includes 50 dwellings, designed on a 5,2m square grid. A third and even larger structure is now under way above Rokko Housing II. (Rokko Housing III.), under construction.

Tadao Ando 's most remarkable works are certainly the religious buildings. "I feel that the goal of most religious is similar, to make men happier and more at ease with themselves. I see no contradiction in my designing christian churches. " Tadao Ando has build a number of christian chapels and other places of religion and contemplation. One of the most amazing church is also one of his simplest. The church of the light (Baraki, Osaka, 1988-89) is located in a residential suburb 40 km to the north-east of the center of Osaka. It consists from a rectangular concrete box crossed at 15 degrees angle by freestanding wall. The bisecting wall obliges the visitor to turn to enter the chapel. As ever with Tadao Ando, entering a building requires an act of will and an awareness of the architecture. In an unusual configuration, the floor descends in stages toward the altar, which is next to the rear wall, whose horizontal and vertical openings form a cross, flooding the space with light.

Awaji is the largest island of the inland sea, set 600km to the south-west of Tokyo opposite Kobe in the bay of Osaka. Here, on hill above a small port, Tadao Ando build his Water Temple. Following a small footpath, the visitor first sees a long concrete wall, 3m high, with a single opening. Through this door one does not find an entrance, but rather another wall, blank, but carved this time, bordered by a white gravel path. Having walked past this new screen of concrete, the visitor discovers an oval lotus pond, 40m long and 30m wide. In the centre of the pond, a stair way descends to the real entrance of the temple. Below the Lotus Fond, within a circle 18M in diameter, the architect has inscribed a 17.4 m square. Here, within a grid of red wood, a statue of buddha turns its back to the west, where the only openings admits the glow of the setting sun. In this place at sunset the words of Tadao Ando can be more clearly understood: "architecture," Tadao Ando says, "has forgotten that space can be a source of inspiration." The other religious buildings are: Water Temple in Hyiogo, Meditation space UNESCO in Paris, etc.

The Children's museum (1988-1989) is located on a large wooded hillside site overlooking a lake near the city of Himeji. In this mature work of Tadao Ando, the visitor is invited to discover the architecture in relation to its natural setting. The main unit of the museum contains a library, indoor and outdoor theatres, an exhibition gallery, a multipurpose hall and a restaurant. The outdoor theater is located on the rooftop, with a spectacular view of the lake. A stepped waterfall and pool near the building also serve to make a connection between the museum and the scenery of the lake. A path, marked by a long concrete wall leads the visitor away from the main structure toward a workshop complex consisting of a two-story square building.

Along this path Tadao Ando has placed a surprising group of 16 concrete columns in a square grid. In their wooded setting, these 9m high pillars recall that the first columns in architectural history were inspired by trees. Just down the road from the children's museum Tadao Ando designed the Children's Seminar House (1991-92). A residence for schoolchildren on vacation, which is capped by a small observatory. The other museums are: The Museum of Literature, Naoshima Contemporary Art museum, Chikatsu-Asuka Historical museum, etc.

Completed projects gallery, selected

Honpuku Temple(Water Temple)

Azuma House

Rokko Housing One and Two

Mount Rokko Chapel

Galleria Akka

The Westin Awaji Island

Kobe Waterfront Plaza built with the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Times Gallery

There are many islands in the many islands in the inland sea of japan that are architectonicaly designed into a small cities. There are projects like naoshima museum and hotel (1990 - 92 and 1994 - 95), located at the southern end of island naoshima, and the great project for Awaji island, Hyogo. It was designed in 1992 and from year 1997 is under construction. This north - eastern shore of Awajishima. Tadao Ando describes it: "The program is for multi-use facility including a botanic garden, a place for the study of horticulture, an open-air theater, a convention hall, a hotel and a guest house. Our first idea was to restore the greenery, more specifically to hold a flower exposition there and to develop the idea into a permanent garden. We called this the millenium garden, and the project was developed on the basis of that concept. It was decided that the facilities would be linked by living things, that is, plants such as trees and flowers, and the flow of water and people. The alhamera in granada provides a historical model.

Tadao Ando is the world 's greatest living architect. If Tadao Ando has one weakness it may by a difficulty in translating the grandeur of his smaller buildings to a larger scale

other books about Tadao Ando

GA Houses 60 - Tadao Ando Tips on House Design

The Chichu Art Museum: Tadao Ando Builds For Claude Monet, Walter De Maria And James Turrell

Seven Interviews With Tadao Ando

El Croquis 44/58: Tadao Ando

The Colours of Light: Tadao Ando Architecture

Tadao Ando: Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum

Tadao Ando: Buildings, projects, writings

Global Architecture Document Extra: Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando: Architecture and Spirit (Monographs on Architecture, Architect's Typologies Series)

Tadao Ando, Le Opere, Gli Scritti, LA Critica (Documenti di architettura)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadao_Ando

http://architect.architecture.sk/tadao-ando-architect/tadao-ando-architect.php

We are all affected in one way or another by buildings, they are around us, we live in them, and we were born in them, study in them, work in them and usually we get married in them.

That is why we study, examine, learn and observe existing buildings, not to intentionally to copy them but to learn from its mistakes and to improve its excellent areas. It is very rear nowadays to find a unique building which was never built before, it could be different in the design but its principles is copied from an old existing building.

Many people do not understand the different between good architecture and bad architecture and this is a misunderstanding which comes from the fact that the term architecture is misunderstood.
Sir Henry Wotton came with a definition which clarifies what we mean by architecture:
“Well-building has three conditions: firmness, commodity and delight”

This is why some buildings more interesting, more memorable and better loved than others.

I’ve chosen Ritchard Neutra’s house for this week's famous architectural house, The Kufmann Desert House for the following reasons:

• The architect’s history and teachers
• The previous projects before this house
• The actual design of the house and it’s surrounded landscape
• The achievements of the project as one of the most important house of the 20th century
About Richard Neutra:

Richard Joseph Neutra was born on the 8th of April 1892 in Vienna. He graduated in 1917 from the Technische Hochschule, , Vienna, where he had been studying under Adolf Loos who was one of the most important and influential architects of the modern period in European architecture. Richard Neutra was influenced by Otto Wagner.

Otto Wagner believed in changing the current way of design buildings and he called for an architecture based entirely on modern materials and modern construction methods. Wagner was a highly influential figure in the development of Modern architecture and he is one of the architects whom had a great influence on Richard Neutra.


Later after graduation, Neutra worked in Germany in the studio of Erich Mendelsohn a German architect who was known for his expressionist buildings in the 1920s, after that by few years Richard Neutra moved to America in 1923 where he worked for Frank Lloyd Wright who was one of the world's most prominent and influential architects and a good friend of Neutra.

Richard Neutra the met his close friend from the university Rudolf Schindler and accepted his invitation to work and live communally in Schindler's Kings Road House in California. Neutra later opened his own practice in Los Angeles.

Although Neutra was influenced by the architecture of Vienna which left a sense of prosperity and elegance that was to come forward in his work, but he also came with in entirely new forms of design.

He was famous for the great attention he gave to defining the real needs of his clients, whether he was commissioned to build a simple house or a mansion. This was in contrast with other genial architects, who would often do everything to impose their artistic vision on a client, regardless of what was really needed to create a home. He would sometimes use detailed questionnaires to find out exactly what the owners would need, much to the surprise of many of his clients. His domestic architecture was a blend of Art, landscape and practical comfort.

Neutra believed that the architect should strive for a response to space and time that may be only momentary, yet in its intensity becomes truly memorable. Both houses have such: a chance reflection in the pool, or glass in shadow; the roof hovering above the sunset, or the rustle of leaves.

About Kaufmann Desert House:


The Kaufmann House, or Kaufmann Desert House, in Palm Springs, California, was one of the last domestic projects conducted by Richard Neutra in 1946, but it is also one of his most famous homes.

The house was one of the fines masterpieces of the Modern movement, and it was among the houses which inspired many architects to adapt the unparalleled modernism and sophistication of Richard Neutra in their buildings.

Now fully restored the house will soon take its rightful place amongst the five most important house of the 20th century among:

1. Falling Water,
2. Robie House,
3. Gropius House,
4. Kaufman House, Gambell House)


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Kaufman House, 1946 Richard Neutra 470 W. Chino Canyon Road, Palm Springs

"The Kaufmann house, Palm Springs, 1946, moved in the direction of the pavilion, which is Neutra's last development in domestic architecture. Horizontal planes resting on horizontal planes hover over transparent walls. The material loses its importance—magnificent as the dry-joint stone walls are in themselves—and the gist of the house is the weightless space enclosed. The victory over the front door is almost complete; it is reached by slow stages, like the Mexican house whose entrance on the street leads through a garden to an unemphasized door." Esther McCoy. Richard Neutra. p16-17.

The House was an isolated five-bedroom, five-bathroom vacation house in Palm Springs, California and it was sited on 60 x 90 meter (1200 x 300 foot) plot, it was designed to enjoy the spectacular views of the surrounding desert and mountains it was also offering shelter from the harsh climatic conditions.
The main entrance was to the south, and from it a covered path led past a large carport to the living and dining areas, organized around a central fire place. The savant’s quarters were placed to the west and guest accommodation to the north, across a covered patio which was later filed in. The master bedroom was to the east, beyond the living room to allow a stunning view of the swimming pool. Both living spaces and master bedroom has a large sliding glass walls opening to adjacent patios.
The over all feeling of the house is light and airy, spacious and it emphasizes a connection to the desert landscape.
The house could be one of its kinds at the time, the heaviness of the stone walls being set off large areas of glass; it was also a model of sophisticated design by today’s standards, fully energy conscious and environmentally friendly design, the roof overhangs and lows adjustably with an under floor heating and cooling system combined to provide comprehensive and unobtrusive climate control.
Around the house Richard Neutral created a natural garden of indigenous rocks and cacti this was to prove even more that the building is connected to its surrounded desert landscape.


"As an architect, my life has been governed by the goal of building environmental harmony, functional efficiency, and human enhancement into the experience of everyday living. These things go together, constituting the cause of architecture, and a life devoted to their realization cannot be an easy one.
"I have been privileged, or perhaps doomed, to eschew simpler, lighter burdens. Shaping man's surroundings entails a lot more than spatial, structural, mechanical, and other technical considerations—certainly a lot more than pontificating about matters of style. Our organic well-being is dependent on a wholesome, salubrious environment. Therefore exacting attention has to be paid to our intricate sensory world."
Richard Neutra. from William Marlin, ed. Nature Near: late essays of Richard Neutra. p1-2.
Kaufman House, 1946 Richard Neutra 470 W. Chino Canyon Road, Palm Springs

References:

* Hines, Thomas S. Richard Neutra and the Search for Modren Architecture: A Biography and History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
* Neutra, Richard Joseph. Nature Near: the Late Essays of Richard Neutra. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1989.
* Neutra, Richard Joseph. Richard Neutra, Promise and Fulfillment, 1919-1932: Selections from the Letters and Diaries of Richard and Dione Neutra. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
* Sack, Manfred. Richard Neutra/ Sack Manfred. Zurich: Artemis, 1994.
* Francis D. K. Ching. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979.
* Thomas S.Hines. Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture. New York: Oxford University Press. 1982.
* John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975.
* Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

Links
• http://www.neutra.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neutra
• http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,888091,00.html
• http://www.socalhistory.org/Biographies/neutra.htm
• http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Richard_Neutra.html
• http://davidszondy.com/future/city/neutra.htm
• http://www.isdesignet.com/Magazine/J_F'01/cover.html
• http://www.modernsandiego.com/RichardNeutra.html
• http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/shulman/architects/neutra/projects2.html
• http://www.houseind.com/index.php?page=showfont&id=18
• Troxell Residence (LandLiving.com)
• Winkens.ie (Info from the Winkens family with photos)

Images:

* Richard Neutra’s picture, source: http://library.thinkquest.org/C006928/architects.htm
* Kaufmann Desert House • Palm Springs, California, source: http://www.greatbuildings.com

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Kish Island, Iran

J.S.K is one of Germany's leading international architectural firms and is at the forefront of new developments in architecture for the 21st century.

The 'built transparency' that the JSK firm takes at its central theme puts human needs at its heart, creating architecture that manages to be ecologically sound, aesthetically beautiful, functional, and economic, all at the same time.
These architects shape urban environments in a forward-looking and positive way.

Check out the drawings, pictures and informations of all of their projects and buildings for high-rise buildings, train stations, airport hotels and more. This is vision and function: J.S.K Architects

Airrail Center, Frankfurt, Germany

Who is your favorite architect and why?

Sir Christopher Wren

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia
Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723, English architect. A mathematical prodigy, he studied at Oxford. He was professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, from 1657 to 1661, when he became Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford. Though now known as the greatest architect of the English baroque style, in his time Wren was a celebrated astronomer and mathematician who, in 1660, was one of the founders of the Royal Society . His architectural career began in 1661 when Charles II appointed him assistant to the royal architect and in 1665 he spent six months in Paris studying architecture. The distinguished buildings Wren created in the years thereafter owe much of their cerebral rigor to his mathematical training. After the great fire of 1666 Wren prepared a master plan for the reconstruction of London, which was never executed. He designed, however, many new buildings that were built, the greatest of which was Saint Paul's Cathedral .

In 1669 Wren was named royal architect, a post he retained for more than 45 years. From 1670 to 1711 he designed 52 London churches, most of which still stand, notable for their varied and original designs and for their fine spires. They include St. Stephen, Walbrook; St. Martin, Ludgate; St. Bride, Fleet Street; and St. Mary-le-Bow, the latter manifesting the type of spire in receding stages generally associated with Wren's name. Among his numerous secular works are the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford; the elegant library of Trinity College, Cambridge; the garden facade of Hampton Court Palace; Chelsea Hospital; portions of Greenwich Hospital; and the buildings of the Temple, London. Wren also built residences in London and in the country, and these, as well as his public works, received the stamp of his distinctive style. His buildings exhibit a remarkable elegance, order, clarity, and dignity. His influence was considerable on church architecture in England and abroad. Wren was knighted in 1675, and is buried in the crypt of St. Paul's.

Bibliography:

• See biographies by A. Tinniswood (2001)
• L. Jardine (2003);
• Studies by G. Webb (1937)
• E. F. Sekler (1956)
• V. Fürst (1956)
• J. N. Summerson (new ed. 1965)
• M. Whinney (1972).