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1
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Denys Lasdun & Partners
National Theatre
London
1964-76

A
  • brutalist

- modernist structure

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John Nash
Park Crescent
1812-22

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  • London

- Regents Park

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John Nash
Cumberland Terrace
London
1821-30

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Regents Park residence

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James Gillespie Graham
Moray Estate
Edinburgh
1822

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New Town

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W H Playfair
Dougald Stewart Monument
Calton Hill, Edinburgh
1832-34

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On top of calton hill

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William Wilkins
Downing College
Cambridge
1807-1820

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neoclassicism

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Sir Robert Smirke
British Museum
London 1823-47

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neoclassicism

look at article given

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Henri Labrouste
Bibliotheque Ste-Genevieve
Paris
1838-51

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Interior v exterior

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Charles Garnier
Opera House
Paris
1862-1875

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ornate carving

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K. F. Schinkel
Neue Wache (new guard house)
Berlin
1816-1818

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temple facade elements

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K. F. Schinkel
Schauspielhaus (theatre)
Berlin
1816-1826

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Being seen to go to the theatre

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K. F. Schinkel
Bauakademie
Berlin
1831-1836

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Exterior v interior

materials

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13
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James Gibbs
Temple of Liberty
Stowe, Buckinghamshire
1741

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gothic traces

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14
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Horace Walpole, James Essex et al
Strawberry Hill
Twickenham
1749-76

A

plan

white

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15
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Sir Charles Barry and A W N Pugin
Houses of Parliament
Westminster, London
1836-60

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wooden carvings inside

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A W N Pugin
St Giles Church
Cheadle, Staffordshire
1841-46

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Gothic traces

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William Butterfield
All Saints’, Margaret Street
London
1849-59

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Brick work

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18
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William Butterfield
Keble College Chapel
Oxford
1867-83

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Brickwork

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Thomas Deane and Benjamin Woodward
Great Hall
Oxford University Natural History Museum
1855-60

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Steel structure internal

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20
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George Gilbert Scott
Midland Grand Hotel
St Pancras, London
1868-77

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covering the internal station structure- engineers

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21
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Alexander Thomson
Holmwood House
Cathcart
1857-58

A

brick work

windows

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22
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Alexander Thomson
St Vincent Street Church
Glasgow
1857-59

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now next to a modern building

raised on a plinth

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23
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T.F.Pritchard and Abraham Darby III,
Iron Bridge
Coalbrookdale
1777-79

A

engineering feat

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24
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J Hartley (mason)
Warehouses at Royal Albert Dock
Liverpool
1845

A

function

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25
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Joseph Paxton
Glasshouses at Chatsworth House
1836-41

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Steel structure and ironwork

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26
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Joseph Paxton
Great Exhibition building
London
1851

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Temporary

Royal Prince Albert initiative

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27
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Philip Webb
Red House
Bexleyheath
1859

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plan

oat houses

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28
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Charles Harrison Townsend
Whitechapel Art Gallery
London
1901

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curved arch
faces onto street
plan twisted away from this orientation

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29
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Adler & Sullivan
Guaranty Building
Buffalo, New York
1894

A

Skyscraper

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Adler & Sullivan
Wainright Building
St Louis 1890

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Skyscraper

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31
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Gustav Stickley
Craftsman Farms,
Parsippany, New Jersey
1907-08

A

garden house
windows and views
horizontality

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32
Q

Greene and Greene
Gamble House
Pasadena, California
1907-08

A

Materials

Landscaping

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33
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Robie House
Chicago, Illinois
1908-1909

A

Horizontality

Inspired by nature

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Frank Lloyd Wright
Larkin Administration Building
Buffalo
New York
1902-1906
A

function

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35
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Victor Horta
Hotel Tassel
Brussels
1892-93

A

curving organic forms

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36
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Victor Horta
Maison du Peuple
Brussels
1895-99 (demolished 1965)

A

Striped

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37
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Hector Guimard
Metropolitain stations Paris
1899-1900
(Palais Royal/Musee du Louvre station shown)

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Ornate curving forms

Ironwork

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38
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Antoni Gaudi
Casa Batilo
Barcelone
Spain
1904-1906
A

curved

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39
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Hill House
Helensburgh
1903

A

white stone

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40
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scotland Street School
Glasgow
1903-1906

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Light- long windows

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41
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Glasgow School of Art, Library
1907-1909
Destroyed in fire in 2014 and 2018

A

Valued in the community

42
Q

Otto Wagner
Apartment Building
Linke Wienziele 40, Vienna
1898

A

Patterns on the exterior

43
Q

Otto Wagner
Postsparkasse- Post Office Savings Bank
Vienna
1904-06 and 1910-12

A

Functionality of space

44
Q

Adolf Loos
Villa Muller
Prague, Czech Republic
1930

A

Box structure

Asymmetrical

45
Q

Josef Maria Olbrich
Secession Building
Vienna
1898

46
Q

Peter Behrens
Behrens House
Darmstadt
1900-1901

47
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Peter Behrens
AEG Pavilion, German Ship Building Exhibition,
Berlin 1908

48
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Peter Behrens
AEG Turbine Factory
Berlin Moabit 1909

A

huge structure

curved roof

49
Q

Peter Behrens
German Embassy
St Petersberg
1911-12

A

Importance

50
Q

Vladimir Tatlin
Monument to the Third International
1921

51
Q

Konstantin Melnikov,
Rusakov Club
Moscow
1927

A

Blocks

Verticality

52
Q

Konstantin Melnikov,
Melnikov House
Moscow
1927-29

A

Curved

Contained

53
Q

Gerrit Rietveld
Schroeder House
Utrecht
1923-24

A

Mondrian
De stijl movement
Openness and flexibility of space

54
Q

Gropius & Meyer
Fagus Factory
Affeld an der Leine
1911

55
Q

Walter Gropius
Bauhaus Building
Dessau
1925-26

A

Block
School function
Everything was designed

56
Q

Walter Gropius
Housing estate at Dessau-Torten
1926-28

A

Blocks

Lamposts

57
Q

Le Corbusier
Domino House
1914-15

A

Levels
Horizontality
Levels

58
Q

Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye
1928-31

59
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Le Corbusier
Unite d’Habitation
Marseilles
1946-52

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Idea of mass housing schemes

60
Q

Le Corbusier
Maison Jaoul
Neuilly
1954-56

61
Q

Le Corbusier
Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut
Ronchamp
1955

A

Curved concrete

Religious building

62
Q

Le Corbusier
Sainte Marie de la Tourette
1955-59

63
Q 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lily Reich
Tugendhat House
Brno
Czech Republic
1928-30
A

hillside

horizontal

64
Q

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German Pavilion
Barcelona
1928-29

65
Q 
Alvar Aalto
Sanatorium
Paimio
Finland
1933
66
Q

Alvar Aalto
Villa Mairea
Noormarkku, Finland
1938-1939

67
Q

Alvar Aalto
Saynatsalo Town Hall
Finland
1949-1951

A

Brick

Blocks

68
Q 
Gunnar Asplund
Public Library
Stockholm
Sweden
1924-1928
A

Entranceway

69
Q

Elisabeth Scott
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
Stratford upon Avon
1932

A

Reflections

70
Q

Mary Crowley
Houses at Tewin
Hertfordshire
1934

A

Residential

71
Q

Erno Goldfinger
1-3 Willow Road Hampstead
London
1939

A

Materials

Units fitting together

72
Q

Corporation of Glasgow
(lead designer John Bryce)
Knightswood Estate
1923-36

A

Council estate

affordable housing

73
Q

Kensal House
London
Maxwell Fry and Elizabeth Denby
1936

74
Q

London county council architect’s Department
Royal Festival Hall
London
1951

75
Q

Basil Spence
Coventry Cathedral
1951-1964

76
Q

Alison & Peter Smithson
Hunstanton School
Norfolk
1949-1954

A

Black tracing

77
Q

James Stirling & James Gowan
Engineering Department
Uni of Leicester
1958-1960

A

Glass and red

78
Q

London Borough of Camden Architect’s Department
Alexandra Road estate
London
1968-1979

A

Steps
Modular
Concrete

79
Q

Charles & Ray Eames
Eames House (case study house #8)
Pacific Palisades, California
1949

A

Mondrian

materials

80
Q

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson
Seagram Building
New York
1954-1958

A

Skyscraper

Copper exterior

81
Q

Eero Saarinen
General Motors Technical Center
Warren, Michigan
1949-1955

A

Extensive
planning
nature

82
Q

Louis I Kahn
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California
1960-65

A

Vistas and views

83
Q

Paul Rudolph
Yale Art & Architecture Building (now Rudolph Hall)
New Haven Connecticut
1958-63

A

Windows and light

84
Q

Jane Drew, Maxwell Fry & Partners
Mfantsipim School
Cape Coast, Ghana
1958

A

Mosaic and ironwork patterns

85
Q

Pancho Guedes
Smiling Lion Building
Maputo, Mozambique
1958

A

Patterns

void and cut outs

86
Q

James Cubitt & Partners
Library, Kumasi College of Science and Technology
Ghana
1960-64

87
Q

Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian National Congress
Brasilia
1958-60

A

Long and tall

concrete

88
Q

Lina Bo Bardi
Sao Paolo Museum of Art
1957-1968

A

Voids underneath
public and private space
within the community

89
Q

SEPRA Architects and Clorindo Testa
Banco de Londres y America del Sud
Buenos Aires
1959-1966

A

unusual space

circles and cut outs

90
Q

Norman Foster
Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank
Hong Kong
1987

A

Glass within stone

91
Q

Norman Foster
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts,
Norwich
1978

A

Flat and open space

Glass

92
Q

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers
Pompidou Centre
Paris
1978

A

Internal structure on the outside

open and flexible spaces inside

93
Q

Richard Rogers
Lloyds Headquarters
London
1986

A

Interior skin

94
Q

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
National Gallery extension
London
1989-1991

A

Attaching onto old building

how it fits in

95
Q

Charles Moore
Piazza d’Italia
New Orleans
1975-1978

A

Colours and shapes

96
Q

James Stirling and Michael Wilford
New State Gallery
Stuttgart
1977-83

A

Coloured tracing in pipes

97
Q

Ricardo Bofill
Arena Apartment Complex
Marne la Valee
1980-1984

A

monumental

being watched

98
Q

Short Ford & Associates
Queens Building
Leicester
1993

A

Red brick

Decoration

99
Q

Bill Dunster
BedZed housing
London
2002

A

Colour

Air vents and chimneys- considering all parts of the building

100
Q

Short & Associates
School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies
UCL
2005

A

Flow within geometry

Arch- 100 buildings (2 decks)

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