Toshiko Mori is a Japanese architect. She is the founder and the principal of Toshiko Mori Architect in New York City. Mori is a professor at Harvard University. Alas it is pointed out the first woman to receive tenure. I say alas as I would like for it not be an issue. In a future post her project in Senegal will be featured in an Architectural Digest article – 13 builidngs that redefined architected in the last 5 years.



New York University Masterplan
2007, New York, New York




The Newspaper Cafe
2007, Jihnua City, China




Hudson Park and Boulevard
2008, New York, New York




Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion
2009, Buffaly, New York




Syracuse Centre of Excellence
2010, Syracuse, New York




Paracoustica Portable Concert Hall
2011




Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research
2015, Cambridge, Massachusetts




Thread
2015, Sinthian, Senegal







Centre for Maine Contemporary Art
2016, Rockland, Maine

Luis Barragán (1902-1988) was a Mexican architect and engineer. His sculptural buildings continue to inspire architects. “It seems important to me that spaces are not aggressive. I always used low forms and permanently worked with right angles. At all times in my work, I had in mind the horizontal and vertical planes and angles of intersection. This explains the frequent use of the cube in my architecture.” Luis Barragan. His personal home received a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2004. Read more about Barragán at Archdaily.

“We are honoring Luis Barragán for his commitment to architecture as a sublime act of the poetic imagination. He has created gardens, plazas, and fountains of haunting beauty—metaphysical landscapes for meditation and companionship. A stoical acceptance of solitude as man’s fate permeates Barragán’s work. His solitude is cosmic, with Mexico as the temporal abode he lovingly accepts. It is to the greater glory of this earthly house that he has created gardens where man can make peace with himself, and a chapel where his passions and desire may be forgiven and his faith proclaimed. The garden is the myth of the Beginning and the chapel that of the End. For Barragán, architecture is the form man gives to his life between both extremes.” – 1980 Jury Citation


Casa Barragan
1948




Jardines del Pedregal
1953




Galvez House
1955




Torres de Satélite
1958




Capilla des Convento de las Capuchinas
1960




Los Clubes Cuadra San Crissas Arboledas
1961




Cuadra San Bristobal
Los Clubes, Cuadra San Cristobal de los Amandes




Gilaldi House
1977, Mexico City

James Sterling (1926-1992) was a British architect. From 1956 to 1963 he worked in partnership with James Gowan then from 1971 to 1972 he worked with Michael Wiford. His principal styles are brutalist and post-modern.

“We honor James Stirling—a prodigy for so many years—as a leader of the great transition from the Modern Movement to the architecture of the New—an architecture that once more has recognized historical roots, once more has close connections with the buildings surrounding it, once more can be called a new tradition. Originality within this tradition is Stirling’s distinction: in the old “modern times,” 45 degree angles in plan and section; today, startling juxtapositions and transpositions of clearly classical and nineteenth-century references. In three countries—England, Germany, and the United States—he is influencing the development of architecture through the quality of his work.” – Jury Citation 1981


Flats at Ham Common with James Gowan
1958, London, England




Leicester University: Faculty of Engineering with James Gowan
1959,




Camberwell School Assembly Hall
1961, London




St Andrews University: Andrew Melville Hall of Residence
1964




Cambridge University: Faculty of History
1968




Oxford University: The Queen’s College, Florey Building
1971




Haslemere, Surrey: Training Centre for Olivetti, extension
1972




Runcom: Southgate social housing (demolished)
1976




Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University, Fogg Museum Sackler Galleries (extension)
1984




Stuttgard: Neue Staatsgalerie
1984




Tate Britain, Clore Galleries (extension)
1987, London




Wissenschaftszentrum (Social Science Research campus)
1987, Berlin




Bibliothèque de France (unsucessful competition entry)
1989, Paris




Offices and Retail at No 1 Poultry
1997, London

Hans Hollein (1934-2014) was an Austrian architect. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of California. In 1964 he founded his own office. Holein was a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis and the Yale School of Architecture. [Read more…]

Gottfried Böhm is a German architect and sculptor. He is known for his sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm was born in 1920 in Offenbach, Hessen. After his graduation in 1947 he worked with his father Dominikus Böhm. He was most inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. [Read more…]

Kenzo Tange (1913 – 2005) was a Japanese architect. Considered one of the 20th century’s most significant architect combining Japanese traditionism and modernism. He was one of Japan’s most revered architect. He was very sensitive the the urban effect of his buildings. [Read more…]

Architectural Digest recently posted about Dumfries House. This reminded me that a few years ago I saw a documentary video of Prince Charles’ efforts to preserve and restore Dumfries House. Must say that although not previously a great fan of Charles, after seeing this video I had a different opinion. It’s 46 minutes so you’ll need to get a coffee (or a martini according to the time of day).

Dumfries House is a Palladian country house. The house was built in 1750. It contains much of its original furniture designed by Thomas Chippendale. Prince Charles took on the restoration of the home, a great, and expensive project.

Click here for a link to the Dumfries House website. I`ve exceeded my limit of free ArchitecturalPro posts but you may be ok – let me know how it looks.






The Grand Entrance Hall




The Family Parlour




The Picture Gallery




The Dining Room




The Blue Drawing Room




The White Drawing Room




The Tapestry Room




Lord Dumfries’ Study







The Pink Dining Room




The Library




The School Room




The Pewter Room




The Family Bedroom with a bedstead by Chippendale

Gordon Bunshaft (1909 – 1990) was an American architect. He studied at Massachusetts Institutre of Technology. He was a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. A proponent of the Modern / International style, his buildings remain icons of their time. This timeline narates his work in a visual manner. [Read more…]

Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer 1931/1997. The first Italian to receive the Pritzker Prize – 1990. He studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan. His architectural theory, sensitive to urban life, gained him international respect. [Read more…]