Sentences with phrase «modern architects»

For many modern architects, each design is a challenge to incorporate clean lines, usable spaces and natural flow of the home to make the experience of living there enjoyable.

Green or «living» roofs are no longer the preserve of the wealthy or the extravagant creations of modern architects looking to make their mark.

Founded in 1919 by the innovative modern architect Walter Gropius at Weimar in Germany, the Bauhaus Design School was a revolutionary school of art upon which so many others have been modelled.

Designed in 1953 by famed mid-century modern architect Gregory Ain, the Hollywood house sits on an acre of wooded ground just a stone's throw from the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel, allowing you to rub elbows with A-listers from the comfort of your own neighborhood.

Jacobs stuck an audacious thumb in the eyes of arrogant top - down planners, clueless modern architects, and ignorant bureaucrats, and offered a vote of confidence in the superior power of spontaneous order, which for her meant the ability of ordinary people to fashion a satisfying form of urban life without the «help» of the accredited experts.

As Adobe (Houghton Mifflin, New York, pp 240, $ 50) shows America's adobe houses are also inventive: a traditional form of building that has inspired modern architects and builders.

One of the Most Impressive Vacation Homes in Costa Rica Designed by world - renowned modern architect Tony Unruh, Casa Ohana seems to grow out of the volcanic bluff overlooking Playa Negra beach and surf break.

In the late 1940's the US embarked on an ambitious embassy building program, employing the leading modern architects of the day.

It was built by legendary modern architect Mies van der Rohe in 1928, but in recent times it is used as an exhibition space concept of changing exhibitions.

Like good sadomasochists, modern architects from Oscar Niemeyer to Eero Saarinen have known that tough materials can be sensual.

Growing up in the Midwest, he was heavily influenced by the great modern architects of Chicago.

John and Dominique de Menil, arriving in Houston from France in 1941, built one of the world's great art collections, championed modern architects and filmmakers, and became passionately involved in human - rights causes.

While the über - modern architect Le Corbusier famously said that «the house is a machine for living in,» here Ottesjö challenges this narrowly mechanistic attitude to design by likening a house to an animal instead, evolving with the natural landscape:

This is a collection of 40 plates designed by some of the best modern architects in France in 1928 and 1929, and it is full of designs for les garcons and les filles and les enfants.

Modern architecture, and the fight for its value in the world, is brought into sharp focus in this documentary examining the battle over the preservation of former Prentice Women's Hospital in downtown Chicago, designed by master modern architect Bertrand Goldberg.

Located at 2249 Talmadge Street in Los Feliz, the 2,644 - square - foot home was designed by modern architect Steven Hill.

Many of the homes resemble the famous mid-century modern architect Joseph Eichler.

Property Modern architect - built house in Zurich, Switzerland.

The agenda of modern architects — the obsessions with a minimal simplicity, light and material (concrete, steel, timber, stone and white plaster) coincides perfectly with the demands of the gallery.

To modern eyes the humility might read false, but Nairn surely meant it — his major criticism was that modern architects were too insistent on telling people how to live; why then, would he be able to tell them how to look at buildings?

Treasures of New York: Building Stories Private life and creative process of Costas Kondylis, a modern architect thought to have more influence over the NYC skyline that any other.

His father, the modern architect Donald Barthelme Sr., taught architecture at UH and at Rice University.

A new entry into the market is Challenger, a modern architect - designed line of

ZeroEnergy Design is a modern architect creating innovative and environmentally sensible homes.

Sanatoriums exerted a powerful hold on the imagination of modern architects and designers as building types and institutional models.