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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
How the fark did these "Change America"?
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The Vanna Venturi House is important. It was one of the earliest postmodernist buildings and its designer wrote a lot of very influential texts. It completely changed the way architects talked about and conceptualized buildings, and that way still dominates architecture today.
Frank Gehry... I don't think you can do a list of American architects without having him since he's one of the most famous American architects. He was influential with the blobitecture and parametric design and all that, but most cities have either one or no buildings like that. I would argue though, that he's played a big role in bringing computers and technology into architecture. Without him I don't think we'd be seeing BIM programs like Autodesk Revit, which is changing the way that architecture firms operate.