Year: 1956
Residential House
Edificio Los Morochos
Casa La Scala
Church at Lietzensee
Corbusierhouse (Unité d’Habitation, type Berlin)
School of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Mourning Hall, Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf
Boiler Factory (Müller AG)
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St. Reinold
St. Reinhold is the consequent realization of the demand for a unpretentious, functional architecture. The construction is reduced to a simple hall and a separate bell tower. The façade originally was completely closed besides the window above the entr…
Tripitaka Library
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URA House
With its four pillars centered on the sides instead of the corners, the building pre-empts the structure of Kikutake’s far more famous Sky House by two years. Direct next to it stands an almost identical, albeit later copy of this private house in the…
Saddam Hussein Gymnasium (today: Baghdad Gymnasium)
Planned by Le Corbusier for King Faisal II, but then not realized after the latter was overthrown. It was Saddam Hussein who had the building constructed in exposed concrete in 1978–1980, whereby the project was managed by Le Corbusier’s erstwhile s…
Premabhai Hall
The Premabhai hall is located in the Old City of Ahmedabad. Due to its large dimension, the building is reminiscent of an ancient monumental sculpture. Doshi designed this post-Corbusian Brutalist piece of architecture in 1956 as a modern public theater…
Offices and Museum of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
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Kollegiengebäude 1 (K1) Fakultät Bauwesen, University of Stuttgart
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Christuskirche Bochum
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Lyttelton House
Banham mentions it as typical of “a sudden upsurge of architectural quality in English domestic design”.
Basel School of Design (Allgemeine Gewerbeschule und Schule für Gestaltung Basel)
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20th Century Building on South Hill Park, NW3
Banham terms this a brutalist example of a “a sudden upsurge of architectural quality in English domestic design”. The façade is reminiscent of Mies but on the garden side the exterior becomes a mix of exposed concrete, wood and visible brick.