a+u 2017:10 American Architecture 1945–1970 Beginning of the Modern Architecture
Content
Now widely-recognized, the mass production of lightweight and pre-fabricated building materials through industrial processes dramatically affected how we use and understand the built environment. A significant portion of the architectural experimentation that coincided with the early development of these processes took place in the United States, during the middle of the 20th Century, in large cities such as Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
This special issue features a selection of projects from this period of the American context, that not only have proven to be critical points of reference for ideas on modern architecture but also have remained in some form of use more than half a century after their completion.
a+u American Architecture 1945–1970 Beginning of the Modern Architecture includes:
Essays
An American Age
Yasuhiro Teramatsu
American Architecture 1945–1970: From Post-War to Post-Modern
Fred A. Bernstein
Works
MIT Baker House Dormitory
Alvar Aalto
Usonian Weltzheimer / Johnson House
Frank Lloyd Wright
Kaufmann Desert House
Richard Neutra
Case Study House #8 (Eames House)
Charles Eames
Case Study House #9 (Entenza House)
Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen
Glass House
Philip Johnson
Rockefeller Guest House
Philip Johnson
Farnsworth House
Mies van der Rohe
Ford House
Bruce Goff
Wayfarers Chapel
Lloyd Wright
860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments
Mies van der Rohe
Lever House
SOM
United Nations Headquarters
Harrison and Abramovitz, etc (Original: Le Corbusier, etc)
Yale University Art Center
Louis Kahn
Gene Bavinger House
Bruce Goff
MIT Chapel
Eero Saarinen
IIT Crown Hall
Mies van der Rohe
Seagram Building
Mies van der Rohe
Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloid Wright
Sert House
Josep Lluis Sert
Hooper House
Marcel Breuer
Malin Residence
John Lautner
Case Study House #22 (Stahl House)
Pierre Koening
Sarasota High School
Paul Rudolph
Richards Medical Research Laboratories
Louis Kahn
Chase Manhattan Bank
SOM
U.S. Air Force Academy – Cadet Chapel
SOM
Beinecke Rare Book Library, Yale University
SOM
Dulles International Airport
Eero Saarinen
John Deere and Company
Eero Saarinen
Vanna Venturi House
Robert Venturi
Guild House
Robert Venturi
Sea Ranch Condominium
Charles Moore (MLTW), Lawrence Halprin
Oakland Museum of California
Kevin Roche
Portland Open Space Sequence
Lawrence Halprin
Ford Foundation Headquarters
Kevin Roche
Salk Institute
Louis Kahn
Kappe House
Ray Kappe
Smith House
Richard Meier
Norman Fisher House
Louis Kahn
Boston City Hall
Kallmann Mckinnell and Knowles
Lincoln Center
Wallace Harrison
House #2
Peter Eisenman
Walstrom House
John Lautner
Knights of Columbus
Kevin Roche
United States Pavilion, Expo ’67
Richard Buckminster Fuller