Brian MacKay-Lyons is a Canadian Architect. Born in 1954, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Nova Scotia. He works principally along the coast of Nova Scotia. In 2005 he founded MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. He founded Ghost Laboratory in 1994 a summer design-build centre. Since 1983 he teaches at Dalhousie University.
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Last week, via Kisho Kurokawa, we were introduced to the Metabolist Movement. Today we explore Kiyonori Kukutake who with Kurokawa was one of the founders of that movement.
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Kisho Kurokawa (1934-2007) was a Japanese architect. He was also one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. This style blended architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth. More on that later… Kurokawa studied architecture at the Kyoto University, University of Tokyo. He received an Honourary Doctorate from the University Putra Malaysia. The Metabolist Movement he cofounded was created in 1960 and dismantled in 1970. In 1962 he founded Kisho Kurokawa Architect and Associates.
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Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was an Austrian architect, as well as philosopher, social reformer, and esotericist. His designs are said to be in the organic expressionist architecture style. He strongly influences Imre Makovecz, Hans Scharoun, Joachim Eble, Erik Asmussen, Kenji Imai, Thomas Rau, Anton Alberts, Max van Huut, Christopher Day, Camphill Architects, Thompson and Rose, Denis Bowman, Walter Burley Griffin, and Gregory Burgess.tralia. You may remember that we got Rudolph Steiner’s name when we did Javier Senosiain. And now we have a new list.
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Today we continue our exploration of the architects whose names were first brought to my attention when writing the blog post on Javier Senosiain. First we explored Bruce Goff, and now Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Hundertwasser (1928-2000) was an Austrian visual artist and architect. His most famous building is the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna. According to Wikipedia: Hundertwasserhaus features undulating floors,… and large trees growing from inside the rooms, with limbs extending from windows. Undulating floors! I can’t even imagine that!
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Last week the name Bruce Goff was one mentioned when looking at Javier Senosiain. And so, today let’s take a look at his work. Goff (1904-1982) was an American architect. Also working in the organic style, this time we add the qualifiers eclectic and flamboyant. Self-taught, he befriended Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan, both encouraged him to work with Ruth, Endacott and Ruth rather than enroll in Massachusetts Institute of Technology where they feared his creativity would be stifled.
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Javier Senosiain is a Mexican architect. Born in Mexico City in 1948, he studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he is now a professor. He is the founder of the Organic Architecture firm in Mexico City. His style, yes there was a clue in the name of his firm, is organic architecture.
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