Villa Losonci
György Kévés
Mátyáshegy, Hungary
47°32′03″N 19°01′37″E
1972
Willow Run Airport, Minoru Yamasaki
Willow Run Passenger Terminal
Minoru Yamasaki
Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
42°14′17″N 83°31′50″W
1957
Escola Júlia Kubitschek, modern architecture and education in Brazil
The Escola Júlia Kubitschek was built by Niemeyer at a pivotal moment in his career. It is quite symptomatic of what defines his work; between structural experimentation, public buildings and relations with political leaders.
Pancho Guedes, Fluid Forms beyond the Utopia
Amancio Guedes, known as Pancho Guedes was a portuguese architect living in Mozambique. He distinguished himself by an architecture mixing his personal influences and his own work on curves and angles.
The Hotel Haegumgang, a floating hotel in North Korea
The Haegumgang Hotel is the world’s first floating hotel. After a 14,000 km journey through Singapore, Australia and Vietnam, it is currently docked on the east coast of North Korea.
The International Fair of Dakar, Postcolonial Architecture and Identity
North of the city of Dakar, not far from the airport, a set of pyramidal volumes form the International Fair of Dakar complex. This building demonstrates the growth of Senegal and more broadly the growing influence of modernism in West Africa. But more than that, it is above all the expression of an architectural identity of its own, the asymmetrical parallelism, which reflects the postcolonial ambition of the country.
Ilha Musical, Decio Tozzi
In one of the last urban voids of São Paulo, Decio Tozzi designed the Villa-Lobos Park with a music city theme. Its center was conceived as a musical oasis and its different infrastructures, such as the Ilha Musical, are organized around music and culture.
Verona, Ralph Erskine’s Studio Boat
On a Swedish island, not far from Stockholm, is moored the Verona. The sailboat belonging to the architect Ralph Erskine has been completely restructured to accommodate his studio and his collaborators.
Resolute Bay, Ralph Erskine and the Arctic Utopia
In the 1950s, following its High Arctic Relocation Program, the Canadian government deported Inuit families to form the colony of Resolute Bay as a means of ensuring its supremacy over the Arctic lands. In 1970, architect Ralph Erskine was asked to design a project to solve the structural problems caused by this process.
Casa Carvajal, a Brutalist House on a Slope
After a successful first part of his career the Spanish architect Javier Carvajal built the Casa Carvajal for his family. This 1000m² house made of rough concrete is remarkable for its spatial articulation and its adaptation to the surrounding environment.