Favorite Architect(s)

[pawelsf]

Alive:

Cesar Pelli: consistency
I M Pei: Bank of China.
Ricardo & Victor Legoretta: colors.
Richard Meier for clean, sharp, white buildings
Rem Koolhaas: CCTV building.
Zaha Hadid for those 2 proposals(names escape me) in Dubai

Dead:

Frank Lloyd Wright: I also like his Mayan inspired houses


firms: SOM, Legoretta+Legoretta, KPF

[Magnus1]

Originally Posted by AdrianXSands

After being utterly APPALLED by the recent AIA surveyed list of American's favorite buildings.

what were America's favorite buildings?

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by Magnus1

what where America's favorite buildings?

http://favoritearchitecture.org/afa150.php

the top ten says it all:

Empire State Building
The White House
Washington National Cathedral
Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Golden Gate Bridge
U.S. Capitol, Washington
Lincoln Memorial
Biltmore Estate
Chrysler Building
Vietnam Veterans Memorial

if that's not enough, Philip Johnson had FOUR buildings make the list... come on...

and these are just a FEW of the MANY that made me say SERIOUS? and lose all faith in the American people...

the fucking BELLAGIO mad spot 22!!!
333 Wacker_62!!!
Michael Graves' Dolphin and Swan Hotel in Olando_70!!!
Wrigley Field (i love wrigley and the cubs, but this in no way belongs on this list), AT&T Park, Fenway Park, Camden Yards, Safco Field, The Astrodome, and Yankee Stadium!!!
The Harold Washington Library!!!
The Fountainebleau Hotel!!!
NO Mies Buildings!!!
and the ONLY TWO Sullivan buildings don't even show up untill the final 5!!!

When Michael Graves, Phillip Johnson, and SPORT STADIUMS are topping your 'FAVORITE ARCHITECTURE' list, you know there's something seriously wrong with people.

anyway, that's why i started this thread way back when... check out the list yourself!

[staff]

^^
I assume many voted for symbolic/nationalistic reasons rather than for the actual architecture.

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by staff

^^
I assume many voted for symbolic/nationalistic reasons rather than for the actual architecture.

true, but still.

[Boris2k7]

My favourite living architects would probably be Norman Foster, César Pelli, and Renzo Piano.

[munda]

I have a lot of architect that i like, alive and dead
Dead:
Henry Hobson Richardson, Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, thats to name a few.
Alive:
I.M. Pei, frank gehry, norman foster, Santiago Calatrava, Cesar Pelli, and more

[andi204]

my fav architects are

meinhard von gerkan
&

albert speer / adolf hitler
(maybe they both were evil people but the buildings look(ed) awesome.)

[samoen313]

dead: miralles (RIP), eero saarinen, marcel breuer

alive: liz diller, ricardo scofidio, zaha hadid (you have to give her some SERIOUS credit for her early career), thom mayne, peter eisenmann, peter zumthor, massimiliano fuksas, michael webb, craig dykers, monica ponce de leon and nader tehrani. SANAA.

the living dead: oscar niemeyer

[Zblackerby]

My 2 favorite are dead, Albert Kahn and Elijah Myers

[Jibba]

Some for me that come to mind quickly are Eero Saarinen and Louis Sullivan. Goldberg too. Peter Zumthor has produced some stuff I really dig, although I haven't seen a whole lot from him (I don't think he is quite as prolific as a lot of others, though).

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by Jibba

Some for me that come to mind quickly are Eero Saarinen and Louis Sullivan. Goldberg too. Peter Zumthor has produced some stuff I really dig, although I haven't seen a whole lot from him (I don't think he is quite as prolific as a lot of others, though).

peter zumthor rules!