years-in-architecture

Architectural History: Age of Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution TO Age of Revivals/Innovation/Ind.Rev.2 TO end of Late Modernity before Postwar. @kevintoner2

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May the Force Be With You on #MayThe4th
#MayThe4thBeWithYou

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week 31 – 1939-45
St Andrews Hs
NY World’s Fair
Villa Mairea
Golconde Dorm
IIT/M+M Research Bldg
SC Johnson & Son/Research Tower
Hallgrimskirkja [cf. (as cont.)..& inside Guildford cath; or RE Orly Hangars loss, the parabolic nature inside at Montferri; or inside Casablanca cath]

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1945, 3of3: ..space-age or not, has #LadyOfElche (circa ¼ Deakamillennium ago in Spain) sensed Leia's pa, not Vader, but EddieFisher on #My78s latest upload of the weekend's @ https://t.co/KugK1W1I7X LadyOf🇪🇸! https://t.co/NGdOjqCjtK; NB Georgian fakery @ https://t.co/yK3JCpCd5N!

[Sir John Soane's Museum 🏛️🖼️ @SoaneMuseum]

Princess Leia and Chewie, hanging amongst Soane's medieval objects in the Museum #MayThe4thBeWithYou

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1945

in #architecture of the year / 1of3; to close Week 31 of years-in-architecture

Today's: Yet more sci-fi, in a space-age favourite from the C20th's last-ing Expressionism. Brutalist per 🇮🇸 geological heritage/gleam. Textbook-free, as incomplete until Guðjón's 💯th year ph.;

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1945 – Hallgrimskirkja (begun), G Samúelsson [pics via @WikiCommons, CC BY-SA 4.0 or 2.0 per*, or via as stated: 1. https://t.co/E6OOXSyyG3 / 2a.Lars Juhl Jensen, CC BY 3.0; 2b(cropped),2e. Ziko van Dijk; & 2c.Codyorb / 3 & 4*.Helgi Halldórsson, CC BY 2.0] cf. Grundtvig’s & (PTO)

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1945, 2of3: ..he did a Brutalist lighthouse, cubic instead, contrary to ⛪️'s Expressionism/granite-lined-Gothic inside! The comparably planned Malmö 🎭 https://t.co/kzFjWXHVWq👀 was by a Lewerentz breaking from 🇳🇴🏛soon approaching Brutalism for later ⛪️s. https://t.co/xAbkgp5XZm

[Cinematic Captures @CineCaptures]

Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
HD Lossless Stills

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1944 continued: ..https://t.co/GB21t93xi3🧵👇via https://t.co/PQfxKKSN5y as promised can show the interior & make-up of the tower. PS: Perhaps such was #FrankLloydWright 40s limelight that kept Art Deco alive an extra generation; importantly, also to revive a degree in 70s PoMo.

[Midwest Modern @JoshLipnik]

Frank Lloyd Wright, S.C. Johnson Wax Research Tower (1950) Racine, WI

Photos: Ezra Stoller
Via Architectural Forum (January 1951)

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1944

in #architecture

Today's: With 🌍 sensation of the '39 admin block, gives counterpoint/s (inside, mezzanines face or grow from conceptually rooted structure/s respectively - see reply thread etc. next for more imagery). Float glass insulating tubular, forms its enclosures.

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1944 – SC Johnson & Son Co, research tower (begun), Wright [pics via @WikiCommons, CC BY-SA 3.0 or 4.0 per** (uncut if #; PDM if *): 1a,3a,3c,4.*c/o HABS / 2a.Stephen Matthew Milligan; & 2b.Alternate State**/ 3b#.*c/o LOC] cf. the Shell Haus from ’32 tho the modus is Wright’s own

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PS Mies & his exponents #GordonBunshaft
#PeitroBelluschi
#EeroSaarinen: reached e.g. #Neutra #ArneJacobsen. [#Niemeyer's Casino Pampulha (👇Kidder-Smith 📷s via https://t.co/3CHn596oN7) opened in 1943. This included the church from the same complex shown in yesterday's repost.

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1943

in #architecture

Today's: Begins the order of a personal idiom, freed of Functionalism, that'll guide America's new image/influence away from Art Deco towards a worldly admired one of technological purism; e.g. the black painted steel here foretokening anodised aluminium.

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1943 – IIT Minerals+Metals Bldg (built, 1st over 15yrs for landmark campus), Mies van der Rohe [pics via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 or –SA 2.0 per* (cropped if #): 1.@FunnyAndcom / 2a.vxla; 2b#.The Sox-35th Red Line stop; & 2c#,d#.vladimix**/ 3.GoogleEarth Street View by @weeklyarchivist]

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Aptly after 1942’s (qv) roof (begun ’35 ala turned-up grain silo wall), NB a shell tech revisit: pre-stressed [pre-Freyssinet patent] @ 1935 Algeciras Market; or in basic, more tested/expressed, re-bar form @ ‘43 Pampulha Church (Orly Hangers blitzed ‘44)! https://t.co/QcYHWgRDo0

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#AntoninRaymond fused 🇯🇵trad-Modernism until '35, entirely free of Wright roots +maybe Perret copying (e.g. of '22, 👀from its reposted🧵in a moment, which also incidentally ties Orly's said doom to a like fated #Nervi hangar, a precast exemplar/gem, '42👇https://t.co/woTbLHBtk9.

[Sergio Bonomi @BonomiS]

Orbetello Hangars 1942, ing. Pier Luigi Nervi distrutti nel 1945 dai nazisti in fuga https://t.co/5AuvR63FnG

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1942

in #architecture

Today's: 🇮🇳 proto-Brutalism; pre-Le Corbusier, whose atelier was later joined. Perhaps tying, is Corb's Roq et Rob (late 40s revisit of the '35 [qv] "weekend house" aka #VillaHenfel with like roof barrelling. Raymond in '24 [qv] also predated Bauhaus 1sts!

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1942 – Golconde Dormitory (completed), Antonin Raymond [photos: Aleksandr Zykov via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped) / juichi1 via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0] cf. European Brutalist variants designed slightly earlier by Le Corbusier, his Pavillon Suisse; or Salvation Army Hostel

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Well before 1942, the #Skogskyrkogården from the '35 🧵 below was completed in 5yrs over 1915-40. It's another one, in addition to yesterday's, worth mentioning for #WLAM & #WLAM2025 👨‍🌾 World Landscape Architecture Month, concluding this April very shortly, in HST 🕚

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..and next, in counterpoint, compare a square coliseum albeit intended for the 1942 World Fair in Rome, the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, but cancelled in 1941 - https://t.co/hjJpbvqWf1

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@nationaltrust The AVRO-studio was built with two studios come 1940 Merkelbach & Karsten (👇https://t.co/UfMQhEiAlM), which shows that Hilversum was abound in the Thirties modernism that catapulted the figure of #Dudok; influencial in especially the UK & whose https://t.co/FHKXiof6oo completes.

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1941

in #architecture:

Today's: An experimental 🏡/Modernism where organicism broke formalism. Was after Sunila in 1936 (qv) +his own home; Falling Water (1938, qv) timely too. [RIBAJ shows his experimental city of '40 as ambition for standardised postwar reconstruction arose.]

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1941 – Villa Mairea guest-house/retreat (project completion), A Aalto; & wife Aino for interior) [photos via @WikiCommons CC BY-SA 4.0 or 3.0 per*; or Flickr, CC BY 2.0 per** or -ND 2.0 per*** or -NC-ND 2.0 per****: 1↱a,1↳d.準建築人手札網站 Forgemind ArchiMedia***;] cont. below

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PS: for #WLAM #WLAM2025 Here's a masterpiece of #architecture missed from the 1930s https://t.co/GMS3Fo0e0I, via instead the auspices of 👨‍🌾 Stentiford who took charge, 1940 onwards (when a rhododendrons garden was added); @nationaltrust maintain an Arts&Crafts style garden there.

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1940

in #architecture

Today's: Extended from 1939 (i.e. into its 2nd year), with many key personal works* and some of the Futurama it's rebranded as since Futurism days), but also Art Deco too. Happy #WorldArtDecoDay HST. [*Check #AlvarAalto #Niemeyer #SvenMarkelius #BelGeddes]

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1940 – New York World Fair (opened: #OTD over 2 hours ago, EDT) NB the ‘World of Tomorrow’ theme and selection of Norman Bel Geddes for the Futurama exhibit [public domain images: via Wikipedia] ca concurrent from Shell was the Fiat Tagliero Building; and the Hague Shell Building

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In circa 1940 the '39 excavated & maybe commenced '38 designs for the '32 BBC's extension was bombed; here👇https://t.co/CGn1woPXx9 mentions the same sculptor that was used from the aforementioned '29 LPTB former TFL HQ, 55 Broadway (see 1939). Happy #ArtDecoDay #architecture GMT

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Happy #ArtDecoDay (🎥 https://t.co/fi3JiBG9lk reporting on 💯years since style's expo intro); mentioning 1939 EmeraldCity (👇https://t.co/DnrRO034Sy) coinciding with today's incidentally related #architecture of the year👈/continuing in a few hours with more, reaching into '40👆!

[Chicago Art Deco @chicagodeco]

Cedric Gibbons, born Dublin, head MGM Art Dept when The Wizard of Oz was made, 1939; credited with design of Emerald City. #artdeco #irish

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1939

in #architecture of the year, but end to the '29-39 Monumental Style as began at London Passenger Transport Building (of aforesaid Holden work in idiom)

Today's: Happy #ArtDecoDay with #StAndrewsHouse #Edinburgh / cf. Holden's #SenateHouse (finished too, as a library #UoL)

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1939 – St Andrew's House (opened), TS Tait [photo: Daboss via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0] Overseen by Acton’s senior architect JG West. Hope Street Philharmonic Hall by HJ Rowse opened a couple of months or so earlier

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PS #Chermayeff, in former 🇬🇧 partnership with Mendelsohn + earlier on the impressive committee for the said 1930s but unrealised AEM school, later played his own hand in seemingly drawing nature in, for Bentley Wood wood-frame🏡 (another '38 👇 comparison https://t.co/FeYDwdlPcb)

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week 30 – 1932-38
Narkomfin Building
Paimo Sanatorium
Manchester Central Library
Stockholm Cremetorium
Daily Express buildings
Palais de Chaillot
Falling Water

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However, the building-focussed AEM #architecture school that'd fill the gap was sidetracked by English opportunities. Gropius/Mies by '38 set up like schools (MIT, & IIT resp. [see week-31 soon]); former Bauhaus head #MoholyNagy tried to sustain a 🇺🇸New Bauhaus in '37 before CID.