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Ms. Gins and her husband,

a protégé of Marcel Duchamp,

shared a philosophy of art and life

they called "Reversible Destiny."

One of its manifestations is this house in East Hampton,

their first in the United States, called the Bioscleave House.

Photograph: Eric Striffler

for The New York Times

Madeline Arakawa Gins, Visionary Architect, Dies at 72

NYT

13 January 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/
arts/design/madeline-arakawa-gins-visionary-architect-dies-at-72.htm

David Adjaye

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/02/
david-adjaye-interview-not-always-looking-at-usual-references

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/aug/02/
david-adjaye-buildings-in-pictures

Paul Williams and Alan Stanton

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct/21/
stanton-williams-stirling-prize-interview

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/oct/20/
stanton-williams-architecture-building

Renzo Piano

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jan/30/
shard-renzo-piano-london-bridge

Jean Nouvel FR

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/
jean-nouvel-good-for-a-prize-but-not-for-a-prince-2023805.html

Frank Gehry USA

Nicholas Grimshaw UK

https://www.theguardian.com/arts/greatbuildings/
edenproject/0,,2183698,00.html

Will Alsop

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/aug/11/
communities.arts

Norman Foster

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/
realestate/norman-foster-enjoys-a-new-york-moment.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/23/
norman-foster-biography-book-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/may/23/
norman-foster-architecture

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/13/
norman-foster-job-cuts-architecture

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1691783,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/742087.stm

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/InternetSite/Flash.html

https://www.theguardian.com/arts/pictures/0,8542,1376126,00.html

https://www.theguardian.com/gall/0,8542,710859,00.html

http://www.0lll.com/lud/pages/architecture/archgallery/foster_britishmuseum/

http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Norman_Foster.html

Santiago Calatrava

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/
arts/design/23cala.html

William Krisel USA

architect who helped

bring modernism to the masses

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/21/
467352937/meet-the-architect-who-helped-bring-modernism-to-the-masses

Richard Rogers UK 1938-2021

Parkside, Wimbledon, 1968-69

Where it all began.

One of Rogers’ first projects

was a house for his parents in Wimbledon,

and it embodies many of the ideas

about prefabrication and industrial manufacture

that he would go on to develop.

Its welded steel frame

was made from standard sections to be easily demounted,

while the walls can be moved around.

Ironically, the building’s grade II* listed status (awarded in 2013)

means it will likely never be dismantled or reconfigured.

Photograph: Arcaid Images/Alamy

Eternal innovator: Richard Rogers' 10 best buildings – in pictures

From a glass home with movable walls

to an airport so stunning you’ll want to be delayed,

Richard Rogers, who has died aged 88,

turned architecture inside-out. We pick his finest creations

Sun 19 Dec 2021 09.42 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/01/
richard-rogers-10-best-buildings-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/richard-rogers

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/01/
richard-rogers-10-best-buildings-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/aug/27/
richard-rogers-architecture-social-responsibility-brexit-grenfell-tower

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jul/15/
richard-rogers-architect-royal-academy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jul/14/
richard-rogers-interview-wimbledon-house

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jul/13/
early-homes-richard-rogers-architecture

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/aug/13/
communities.arts

Georgie Wolton UK 1934-2021

(née Cheesman)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Georgie_Wolton

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/08/
architect-modernist-lost-buildings-georgie-wolton-richard-rogers-norman-foster

Richard Gilbert Scott UK 1923-2017

Architect best known

for designing Roman Catholic churches

and his work on the Guildhall Art Gallery

in the City of London

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/12/
richard-gilbert-scott-obituary

Zaha Hadid Iraq / UK 1950-2016

Iraqi-born British architect

whose soaring structures

left a mark

on skylines and imaginations

around the world

and in the process

reshaped architecture

for the modern age

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/arts/design/zaha-hadid-architect-dies.html

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/03/
zaha-hadid-observer-appreciation-rowan-moore

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/
arts/design/zaha-hadids-influence-reached-beyond-her-architectural-designs.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/
arts/design/zaha-hadid-architect-dies.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/01/
arts/design/zaha-hadid-designs.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/
arts/design/02hadi.html

Donald Allen Wexler USA 1926-2015

architect

whose innovative steel houses

and soaring glass-fronted terminal

at the Palm Springs International Airport

helped make Palm Springs, Calif.,

a showcase for midcentury modernism

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/
arts/design/donald-wexler-architect-who-gave-shape-to-palm-springs-dies-at-89.html

Francis Freile Fleetwood Chile 1946-2015

Francis Fleetwood (..)

drew on the work of Stanford White

to transform the architectural aesthetic

of the Hamptons on Long Island

from the relatively modest,

minimalist beach houses

that reflected postwar modernism

to the shingled Victorian behemoths

that evoke the Gilded Age

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/nyregion/
francis-fleetwood-architect-who-transformed-the-hamptons-dies-at-68.html

Michael Graves USA 1934-2015

one of the most

prominent and prolific

American architects

of the latter 20th century,

(he) designed more than

350 buildings around the world

but was perhaps best known

for his teakettle and pepper mill

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/
arts/design/michael-graves-prolific-architect-dies-at-80.html

Jon Adams Jerde USA 1940-2015

Judith Deena Hochberg USA 1923-2014

At the 1974 national convention

of the American Institute

of Architects in San Francisco,

Judith Edelman presented data

showing that 1.2 percent

of registered architects

in the United States were women.

Only coal miners

and steelworkers,

she suggested,

counted

a lower proportion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/
business/judith-edelman-architect-91-is-dead-firebrand-in-a-male-dominated-field.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/
business/judith-edelman-architect-91-is-dead-
firebrand-in-a-male-dominated-field.html

Randall Paul Stout USA 1958-2014

Kathryn Findlay UK 1953-2014

Award-winning architect

whose unconventional designs

ranged from space-age homes

to the Orbit tower

for the London Olympic Park

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan/15/kathryn-findlay

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan/15/
kathryn-findlay

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/apr/02/
kathryn-findlay-architect-portrait-artist

Madeline Helen Gins USA 1941-2014

poet-turned-painter-turned-architect

who publicly forswore mortality

— and whose buildings,

by her own account,

were designed

to pre-empt death

for those living in them —

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/
arts/design/madeline-arakawa-gins-visionary-architect-dies-at-72.html

Walter Smith Pierce USA 1920-2013

The 45-acre Peacock Farm,

built from 1952 to 1958,

shared the subdivision tradition

of taking its name

from the previous

identity of the site;

peacocks really

had been raised there.

But it was far from traditional.

Floor plans were open,

wide expanses of glass

substituted for walls,

roofs were asymmetrical

and only slightly sloped,

and basements were raised

higher than in most houses,

allowing in more light

and elevating their role.

The houses,

built on wooded

and often hilly lots,

were tailored

to accommodate

the natural setting

rather than conquer it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/
arts/design/walter-pierce-architect-of-modernist-homes-is-dead-at-93.html

Balthazar Kora USA 1926-2013

one of the leading

architectural photographers

in the period after World War II

when Modernist design remade

the American landscape

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/arts/design/balthazar-korab-architectural-photographer-dies-at-86.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/
arts/design/balthazar-korab-architectural-photographer-dies-at-86.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/01/25/
arts/artsspecial/20130125KORAB_OBIT.html

Pedro Eduardo Guerrero USA 1917-2012

former art school dropout

who showed up

in the dusty Arizona driveway

of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939,

boldly declared himself

a photographer

and then spent

the next half-century

working closely with him,

capturing

his modernist architecture

on film

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/
arts/design/pedro-guerrero-95-dies-captured-another-dimension-of-art.html

Lebbeus Woods USA 1940-2012

architect whose works

were rarely built

but who influenced

colleagues and students

with defiantly imaginative

drawings and installations

that questioned convention

and commercialism

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/arts/lebbeus-woods-unconventional-architect-dies-at-72.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/
arts/lebbeus-woods-unconventional-architect-dies-at-72.html

John MacLane Johansen USA 1916-2012

celebrated Modernist architect

and the last surviving member

of the Harvard Five,

a group

that made New Canaan, Conn.,

a hotbed

of architectural experimentation

in the 1950s and ’60s

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/
arts/design/john-m-johansen-last-of-harvard-five-architects-dies-at-96.html

Anne Griswold Tyng USA 1920-2011

architectural theorist

who worked

with the celebrated modern

architect Louis I. Kahn

and had a daughter with him

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/
arts/design/anne-tyng-architect-and-partner-of-louis-kahn-dies-at-91.html

Gene Summers USA 1928-2011

architect

who helped execute

Ludwig Mies

van der Rohe’s designs

for the Seagram Building

in Manhattan

and other Modernist landmarks,

then went on to design

the McCormick Place

convention center in Chicago

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/
arts/design/gene-summers-architect-with-mies-van-der-rohe-dies-at-83.html

Alfred Anton Boeke USA 1922-2011

The Pomo Indians,

who once inhabited the land,

were long gone the day in 1962

when Al Boeke

flew in a small plane

over the pristine beaches,

steep bluffs,

wind-swept woods

and sheep-grazed meadows

along the Pacific Coast

in Sonoma County, Calif.,

about 150 miles north

of San Francisco.

What Mr. Boeke saw,

in his mind’s eye,

was a residential community

that would blend in

with that 10-mile stretch,

with its jagged rocks,

redwoods, pines

and Monterey cypresses.

That vision led to Sea Ranch,

a development that set a standard

for environmental preservation.

It now has about 1,700 homes,

including one owned by Mr. Boeke

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/us/
al-boeke-88-dies-architect-sought-ecological-harmony.html

John Bancroft UK 1928-2011

Sometimes

a single building becomes

the focus for an architect's

endeavours and reputation.

For John Bancroft,

(...) that building

was Pimlico school.

Not only did Bancroft

design and see

this striking landmark

of the 1960s

through to completion,

he also waged

an unremitting

and lonely struggle

for more than a decade

to save

his cherished creation

from destruction,

to no ultimate avail.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/20/john-bancroft-obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/20/
john-bancroft-obituary

Edgar A. Tafel USA 1912-2011

architect

who was among

the best known

of Frank Lloyd Wright’s

many apprentices

(...)

As an apprentice

in the mid- and late-1930s,

he worked on two of Wright’s

most important commissions:

Fallingwater,

the serenely cantilevered house

over the Bear Run creek

in rural Pennsylvania;

and the Johnson Wax Building

in Racine, Wis.,

with its fantastic forest

of mushroomlike columns.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/arts/design/25tafel.html

John Carl Warnecke USA 1919-2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/
arts/design/23warnecke.html

Bruce J. Graham USA 1925-2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/
arts/design/10graham.html

Charles Gwathmey USA 1938-2009

Charles Gwathmey

Photograph: William E. Sauro

The New York Times

Architect’s Modernist Legacy Crosses the Hudson

The Appraisal

By MATT A.V. CHABAN NYT JAN. 4, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/
nyregion/architects-modernist-legacy-crosses-the-hudson.html

architect

who turned his love of Modernism

and passion for geometrical complexity

into a series of compelling houses

and sometimes controversial

public buildings

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/arts/design/05gwathmey.html

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/
reference/timestopics/people/g/charles_gwathmey/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/
arts/design/05gwathmey.html

Kenneth George Browne UK 1917-2009

Architect and editor

with ambitious ideas

for humanising

the urban environment

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/09/obituary-kenneth-browne

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/09/
obituary-kenneth-browne

Rodney Gordon UK 1933-2008

Dramatic,

sculptural and enormous,

the brutalist buildings

designed by Rodney Gordon

are among the most iconic

of the second half

of the 20th century.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/sep/10/architecture

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/sep/10/
architecture

Pierre Koenig USA 1925-2004

Pierre Koenig: Bailey House, Los Angeles, 1958

The Bailey House

was the 21st home in the Case Study House programme,

an initiative by Arts & Architecture magazine

to promote the best low-cost domestic design.

Hailed by the magazine

as embodying “some of the cleanest

and most immaculate thinking in [its] development”,

Koenig’s design used an exposed steel frame,

welded with precision.

As the architect said:

“Steel is only as good as its detailing.

In order to make exposed steel acceptable in the living room

it must be so well detailed

that the joining connections are imperceptible.”

Photograph: Darren Bradley

Giants of modernist architecture – in pictures

Wednesday 19 July 2017 07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jul/19/
modernist-architecture-photography-corbusier-concrete-gibberd-hill#img-6

pioneering architect

whose Modernist vision

went unloved in California

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/13/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/13/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Philip Johnson USA 1906-2005

Philip Johnson

The Guardian p. 25 29.1.2005

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/29/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1

flamboyant postmodern architect

whose career was marred

by a flirtation with nazism

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/29/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/21/
moma-wants-to-cancel-philip-johnson-many-who-knew-him-do-not

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/dec/13/
philip-johnson-architect-moma-harvard-fascism

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/
books/review/mark-lamster-philip-johnson-man-in-the-glass-house.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/
garden/bedtime-under-glass.html

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/29/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1

Richard John Robert Feilden UK 1950-2005

Architect who promoted

environmentally friendly design

and urban regeneration

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/jan/12/urbandesign.artsobituaries

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/jan/12/
urbandesign.artsobituaries

Cedric John Price UK 1934-2003

Hugely creative architect

ahead of his time

in promoting themes

of lifelong learning

and brownfield regeneration

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/aug/15/urbandesign.artsobituaries

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/aug/15/
urbandesign.artsobituaries

Peter Smithson UK 1923-2003

architect

whose modernist buildings

were ahead of their time

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/mar/08/urbandesign.artsobituaries

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/mar/08/
urbandesign.artsobituaries

Alison Smithson UK 1928-1993

Peter Smithson UK 1923- 2003

The brutalist style

that Peter and Alison Smithson pioneered

was radical, practical and beautiful.

To their enemies

– among whom Prince Charles

holds the megaphone –

their uncompromising concrete boxes

are the greatest sins

that have ever been committed

in a planning office.

This war broke out as soon

as the Smithsons' first building

was completed in 1954.

At the time,

the blunt rectangularity

of Hunstanton school,

with all its glass and steel,

was profoundly shocking.

And worse (or better) was to come,

in the form of the Economist building

and then the Robin Hood Gardens

housing estate,

both in London.

Though the couple's idealism

was obvious,

they assiduously researched

the habits of the people

they designed for.

Indeed,

they saw their residential work

as the compassionate reaction

to Le Corbusier's huge towers.

What they were building,

as the doomed phrase had it,

would be "streets in the sky".

Sadly, practice did not follow theory.

Alison died in 1993,

and Peter in 2003,

but both lived long enough

to see themselves ridiculed,

especially for the failure

of Robin Hood Gardens

to realise their expectations.

To many,

their career now stands

as a parable of the way

that naive optimism

can condemn the poor to squalor.

Yet to others,

including Richard Rogers,

the story that Robin Hood Gardens tells

is of a brilliant design

being neglected and mismanaged.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/11/
lecorbusier-architecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Alison_and_Peter_Smithson

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/oct/26/
building-behind-brutalism-inside-the-smithsons-solar-pavilion-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/11/
lecorbusier-architecture

Bertrand Goldberg USA 1913-1997

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/
arts/design/adapting-prentice-womens-hospital-for-new-use-in-chicago.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/
17cncprentice.html

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/
now-showing-bertrand-goldberg/

Paul Rudolph USA 1918-1997

Paul Rudolph:

Bass Residence, Fort Worth, Texas, 1976

A shifting stack of floating horizontal planes,

this nest of overlapping volumes and cantilevered slabs

was commissioned by Anne and Sid Bass in 1970

to accommodate their own home and a spacious gallery

for their collection of contemporary art.

Sited on a hillside,

its four storeys are broken down into 12 different levels,

the interlocking volumes defined by white steel frames

and porcelain-enamelled aluminium panels,

with the living areas projecting out

to take in panoramic views over the landscape.

Photograph: Grant Mudford

Giants of modernist architecture – in pictures

Wednesday 19 July 2017 07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jul/19/
modernist-architecture-photography-corbusier-concrete-gibberd-hill#img-6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Paul_Rudolph_(architect)

John Edward Lautner USA 1911-1994

The James Goldstein house, designed by John Lautner

Photograph: Jeff Green

LACMA

The glories of the Big Lebowski house – in pictures

Friday 19 February 2016 20.34 GMT

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/feb/19/
the-glories-of-the-big-lebowski-house-in-pictures

architect

who created Chemosphere,

a flying saucer-like house

in the Hollywood Hills,

and other well-known

contemporary homes

(...)

Mr. Lautner was born

and brought up

in Marquette, Mich.,

and his mentor was

Frank Lloyd Wright.

He was a Wright apprentice

for six years,

and moved to Los Angeles in 1939

to supervise the construction

of Sturges House by Wright.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/27
/obituaries/john-lautner-technologist-architect-dies-at-83.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/27/
obituaries/john-lautner-technologist-architect-dies-at-83.html

Paul Revere Williams USA 1894-1980

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/
arts/design/ireland-paul-williams-architect-photography-nevada.html

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Germany, USA 1886-1969

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/
arts/design/david-chipperfield-berlin-new-national-gallery.html

Francis Matcham UK 1854-1920

(Matcham)

is estimated to have built or rebuilt

more than 150 theatres including

the Blackpool Tower Ballroom

and the London Palladium

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2020/may/17/
mr-theatre-the-marvellous-playhouses-of-frank-matcham-in-pictures

Charles Follen McKim USA 1847-1909

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/
arts/design/unloved-building-in-goshen-ny-prompts-debate-on-modernism.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/
realestate/31scapes.html

Basil Urwin Spence UK 1907-1976

Basil Spence colour pastel perspective

of the "Southern Motors" filling station,

Causewayside, Edinburgh

SC426813

http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/image/src/203/SC426813

http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/image-details.html?img=203&ref=SC426813

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/74043/details/edinburgh+35+37+39+41+43+causewayside+filling+station//

https://webarchive.nrscotland.gov.uk/20170903010359/http://www.basilspence.org.uk/

Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray Ireland 1878-1976

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jun/30/
e1027-eileen-gray-architecture-france

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jun/30/
eileen-gray-e1027-corbusier-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/jul/21/
weekend7.weekend5

Louis Isadore Kahn USA 1901-1974

(born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky)

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jul/13/
louis-kahn-power-of-architecture-review-monuments

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/feb/26/
louis-kahn-brick-whisperer-architect

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/feb/26/
louis-kahn-architect-exhibition-in-pictures

Marion Mahony USA 1871-1961

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/
arts/design/01maho.html

Frank Lloyd Wright USA 1867-1959

Charles Rennie Mackintosh UK 1868-1928

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/feb/25/
architects-favourite-buildings-in-pictures

George Gilbert Scott UK 1811-1878

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
George_Gilbert_Scott

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/12/
richard-gilbert-scott-obituary

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