Historical Perspectives & Engineering Oddities
Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe Architecture
Given the choice by the Nazis to adapt his architecture school’s curriculum in order to stay open, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe shut it down. This was no small thing, flying in the face of Hitler’s wishes and closing a school that was greatly influential.
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Stable Datums and Silver Linings for You in a Time of Adversity
The ability to deliver buildings that are markedly different, but which obviously carry the signature of a single creator is quite an achievement.
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Walter Gropius Buildings
It’s kind of interesting that the founder of one of the most influential schools of design could not draw and was reliant on the work of his collaborators in order to bring his plans to fruition.
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Frank Gehry
The ability to deliver buildings that are markedly different, but which obviously carry the signature of a single creator is quite an achievement. Frank Gehry was named the most important architect of our age by Vanity Fair for a reason.
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Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid is probably the most famous female architect in the world. Nicknamed “The Queen of the Curve” by The Guardian newspaper, Hadid was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize and is the only woman to get the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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