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Onyx is a multi-member collective that was active in New York City from 1968 through the early 1970s and active intermittently to the present. Its members - Ron Williams, Woody Rainey, Tommy Simpson, Mike Hinge, Bob Buxbaum, Davis Allen, Sheridan Bell and Jack Wells among others—published architectural projects in the form of offset-printed posters or "broadsheets" that were mailed ...
Yona Friedman (5 June 1923 – 20 February 2020) [1] was a Hungarian-born French architect, urban planner and designer. He was influential in the late 1950s and early 1960s, best known for his theory of "mobile architecture". [2]
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. [1]
June 3 – Pier Theatre, Bournemouth, England, designed by Elisabeth Scott. July 26 – Großes Festspielhaus for Salzburg Festival in Austria, designed by Clemens Holzmeister. August – Ongryu Bridge on the Taedong River in Pyongyang, North Korea. [1] November 21 – Hamilton City Hall in Hamilton, Ontario, designed by Stanley Roscoe.
Over the course of Hitchcock's career, he wrote more than a dozen books on architecture. His Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1958) is an exhaustive study of more than 150 years of architecture that was widely used as a textbook in architectural history courses from the 1960s to the 1980s, and is still a useful reference today.
Ant Farm was an avant-garde architecture, graphic arts, and environmental design practice, founded in San Francisco in 1968 by Chip Lord and Doug Michels (1943-2003). Ant Farm's work often made use of popular icons in the United States, as a strategy to redefine the way those were conceived within the country's imagination.
In his book Moderne Architektur (1895) he had called for a more rationalist style of architecture, based on "modern life". [17] He designed a stylized ornamental metro station at Karlsplatz in Vienna (1888–89), then an ornamental Art Nouveau residence, Majolika House (1898), before moving to a much more geometric and simplified style, without ...
1900s – 1910s – 1920s – 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s ... Pantheon, Rome is completed, an early full dome. ... Table of years in ...