Alejandro de la Sota – Gimnasio Maravillas, Madrid
A vital experience takes place visiting the Gimnasio Maravillas (1962). Its author, the Spanish architect…
Browsing: Masters
Carlo Scarpa – Technique and Antiquity
The project for the Borgo condominium in Contrà del Quartiere in Vicenza was approved by…
Luigi Moretti and the Column
The theme of the relationship between structure and form in architecture, its spatial configuration and…
Ignazio Gardella – Edges & mouldings
Between 1947 and 1953, Ignazio Gardella realized a series of residential buildings, where the crowning…
Jørn Utzon, Sydney Opera House, 1963 – The Tile and the Glass Facade
The attention to detail was a critical matter for the Sydney Opera House project. The…
Mies van der Rohe – Corner and mullion solutions
Mies have an image as an idealist who built with great perfection, disregarding both function…
Mies van der Rohe – Tugendhat house, Brno, 1928-30
Mies van der Rohe in June 1929 starts to oversee the construction of Tugendhat House,…
Toyo Ito – Architecture, Structure, Material
The materials, which I may use, are concrete, steel or wood. I begin with the…