I lived in New York City for 13 years. I passed through Walter Gropius' Pan Am building lobby hundreds of times coming out of Grand Central Terminal; was employed at 270 Park Avenue for two years (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) a building which has since been dismantled and is being rebuilt as a mega-tall skyscraper; and worked around the corner from Mies' Seagram Building (52nd and Park Ave) where I spent many hours sitting on its plaza and experiencing its excellence.
I love listening to your videos while doing my plates. Your videos are great, and they really inspire me to pursue architecture. I'll look forward to seeing more of your videos. Please continue making more videos.
As an architect I agree with all the architects on the list but one, that would be Philip Johnson. He wasn't a particularly good architect he was however a power broker and connected. There are a host of other architects with equal influence. Saarinen comes to mind. Johnson did a few buildings and talked a lot, copied the trends and talked a lot.
the tower concept in architectuer has ruined human habitat. Eco-friendly architecture is the need. When I walk in Thane the Tower Architecture covers the blue sky above us besides water and sanitary issues. Thanks Ranjan
In the context of Nervi influencing Calatrava, should Gaudí not be mentioned as maybe the first to take structural lessons from nature which many others have adopted since?
I love your channel. I am a fine-artist and illustrator, and do concept art. Your videos are immensely insightful. I would love to see you deal with turn of the century architecture like Gaudí or elements from art deco and art nouveau.
What, no Gaudi? no Hadid? no Utzen? no Tadao Ando? no Arne Jacobsen? no Richard Rodgers? This list seems somewhat US centric in terms of influence. I am no architect...but my father was, and my views reflect both his influence and all that influenced him as well as my continued love of the architectural art form for some 50 years now. I am just grateful there are so many great architects who ably demonstrate the importance of the spaces we occupy so that when humans have an impact it is either minimal or inspirational or both
Não mencionar Oscar Niemeyer foi um erro grave desse documentário ... sem desmerecer nenhum dos arquitetos mencionados ... mas Oscar Niemeyer projetou uma cidade inteira que é Brasilia , capital do Brasil
Why are there any japan architect like 1- Sou Fujimoto 2- Itsuko Hasegawa 3- Tadao Ando 4- Toyo Ito 5- SANAA 6- Arata Isozaki 7- Kisho Kurokawa 8- Junya Ishigami 9- Hiroshi Nakamura 10- Hata Tomohiro
Good question! Modern architecture was a movement between the 1900s and the 1970s. I used the famous book "Modern Architecture Since 1900" by William Curtis as the research for this video. From all the comments here I think people want to see a video about current architects so I have a video planned for that.
@@robertsarchitecture 10 is an arbitrary number for making this list and 1970 is an arbitrary cut off date when your description says 20th century. Your list has no Constructivists, Futurists, Metabolists, Brutalists, West Coast Modernists, or Latin Americans.
am i the only one who finds the chanting in the beginning of every mention annoying as fuck? But still a great video man keep it up, but without the chant.
thanks for the video... keep learning how to pronounce things properly... an informative style video that has alot of terms misread, becomes a joke. I did enjoy the material once i muted the video. I personally would have liked to have seen Oscar Niemeyer included in the content. -His iconic modern style shaped whole cities, not just buildings.
Great work, and I learned a lot. But please learn how to pronounce French. It’s not “Li.” It’s “LUH” the correct pronunciation. Or learn how to pronounce Atellier!
Talking about influential architects, Zaha Hadid should be on your top 10, instead of Gehry for sure. Johnson is also here by some excident, and not Alto, Saarinen . . .
Johnson is a poor choice. Aalto was using Sacred Geometry along with Wright and more recently Foster. Corb was also using it but had no idea what he was playing with. Wrights buildings have magical quality. Corbs do not. It is a case of the King not wearing any clothes with Corb. He was very good but too much ego. FLW genuinely wanted the best building whereas Corb wanted the best applause. You would only get an honest answer from a child as to whether Corb was any good. His one exception was Ronchamp but the rest was mediocre.
LeCorbusier is easily the most overrated architect of all times. His works age quite bad (in state and in style), and many of them are reviewed by its users as nightmares to use or to live in. This guy main work was spending his carrieer overrating himself and, like in many other instances, people just followed his whim like sheeps.
Oscar Niemeyer who even influenced Le Corbusier and Zaha Hadid, this same one, another failure, which had him as an idol, was not only a lack, but a failure of this video. A great lack of universal knowledge in architecture.
Phillip Johnson does not belong on this list and Alvar Aalto is a glaring omission. One leading historian of modern architecture, William J.R. Curtis, would say that Corb, Mies, Wright, Aalto and Kahn were the most significant/influential/consequential modern architects.
Excelente lista ! Muchos son arquitectos de lo monumental, Le Corbusier se preocupó por lo pequeño que es la vivienda, el problema más grande y antiguo , para ello dejó abierta la senda de que la industrialización es el camino para resolver la deficiencia habitacional, una vivienda es una máquina para habitar, es decir es un instrumento que permite satisfacer necesidades primordiales del hombre, por eso hay que evolucionar en su construcción, porque la humanidad aumentó en número, un gran maestro !
How about Alvar Aalto, considered as one of 5 pioneer modernist architect, considered by architectural historians & critics/theorists(Giedion, Frampton) who influenced lots of Scandinavian/Nordic architects as well as other US Postmodern, Deconstructivist & Post- structuralist architects & designers of Mier, Gehry & even 3rd/4th generation of contemporary architects (Utzon & Saarinen) through his buildings, urban planning, interior, furniture/furnishing designs greatly influenced a humanist as well as environmentalist designs & architecture w/the sensible/sensitive Finnish response for places & people.
Niemeyer and Saarinen are glaring omissions. Both were more influential than Scarpa or Nervi. Saarinen's connection to Yale establishes a direct lineage between him and Rodgers and Foster. You can even glimpse the future (i.e., Zumthor and others) in Saarinen's Yale residential colleges. I would also take Neutra over Johnson. Johnson followed the trends from the International Style to Postmodernism. Though not intentionally, but more because of the clarity of his work, (specifically its massing and detailing), Neutra almost single-handedly created the style that we know today as midcentury modern. ... Gehry is NOT a modern architect. To make that point, Phillip Johnson labeled Gehry a Deconstructivist. Gehry also does NOT belong that high on any list. He is a designer of spectacular forms. On the inside, his buildings are sheetrock palaces with no profound understanding of human scale, movement, and atmosphere. As to SOM, its modern reputation is more or less the product of one architect (Gordon Bunshaft) and perhaps one building. It's not the Hancock Center, but the Lever House in New York.
Good points. I had to limit the list to ten, so impossible to include everyone. I focused on influential concepts, and not how good each architect was. Scarpa is on this list as he was one of the first Modern architect to incorporate historic elements with the new. This is very important when doing renovation projects, or building in existing cities. Nervi was one of the first to nail down how to incorporate modern building materials and modern structural engineering into Modern architecture. He is the direct inspiration for Calatrava. Johnson invented the lie of the 'International Style'. Modernism wasn't international, nor was it a style. Modernism was a way of working, and a process. He reduced it to a 'style'. It was also not 'International', it was Northern European. He also brought the German Bauhaus to the U.S. and promoted 'industrial design' as a new art form. He also invented the term 'Postmodernism'. He wasn't the best architect, but his social influence was great. Both for good and bad. You are right Gehry is a Postmodern architect, but I included him on this list because his profound effect on the profession. His office basically invented 3D modeling for complex geometries in architecture using Catia. There would be no Zaha Hadid or Bjarke Ingels without the design process he pioneered. Architects probably wouldn't be using Revit now if not for the success of this way of working. SOM invented the image of the Modern skyscraper, and they have been pioneering how to work with international and regional clients while still being Modern.
Well said, I do respect Gehry because he doing his own thing, he is experimenting, he is trying to figure out who he is, I respect that, I don't like his work but I respect his journey.
@@rurathn5534 As an undergrad at Yale, I took Vincent Scully's Modern Architecture course. He did not mention any Nervi buildings. He did mention Saarinen and the engineering of his projects. He must have felt obligated because I learned later he was not fond of his work. Of course, Scully later changed his tune. Whatever the case, if Scully did not find Nervi influential enough to mention, I dare say I am not wrong to think he was not as influential as Saarinen.
FLW brings in such a combination of elements. Most others on this list lean so heavily to concrete and glass. But I’m a wright fan so I’m probably biased 😂
Thanks for list. I’d include some more architects who influenced residential home building. It seems to me that the homes we live in influence us more than a public building we may see only a few times. Cliff May is a favorite.
Whatever one thinks of the list, what I found hopeful as an non-architect was an acknowledgement that the major trends of the 20th Century were the tail wagging the dog. The tail was the corporate world and it's architectural fulfillment in the "International Style." We are the dog, and what Wallace Harrison (Empire State Plaza) did not learn from Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, it is to be hoped that 21st Century architects have, i.e., that human beings want more than to be cogs in a corporate utopia.
Alvaro Siza, maybe after ten but i love him so much. Beauty lirism minimalistic version of Aalto, hero of sudeuropa that made beautiful things also all over the world.
So where are we now? What ideas drive architecture today? Sustainability (I don’t think so)? A poor capitalist take on modernism? Capitalist branding architecture? I’m about to graduate from architecture school and I have no motivation to find a job because there is no direction as to what is contemporary.
There was a fad in the 2000s for 'Starchitects'. Folks like Gehry, Koolhaas, Hadid, Holl, Calatrava, Piano, and others. This was because of the 'Bilbao Effect' created by Gehry. There was a huge backlash against this in the profession, and now the big thing is being socially responsible. Equity and diversity, sustainability, Net-Zero, etc... . The architecture profession loves fads, and jumps on whatever is the latest thing because architects are always trying to be 'relevant'. If you are just graduating I suggest finding out what you are passionate about and following that. Don't follow fads. They don't make for a long satisfying architectural career.
I very much appreciate your videos, thank you for creating them. With that said, I disagree with your list, especially Corbu as number one. As others have mentioned, Lautner, Aalto and Kahn don’t get even a mention
Yes. Great idea. Modern architecture is all about German and Northern Europeans and bringing this to the U.S. after WWII. I'll try to do a video on non-Western architecture soon.
In the late 20th century, I saw a "post, beam, panel" architecture of the Arab palaces. They were not for outsiders. They had huge spaces, with protective elements against the heat and dryness of their world. Just enough light, but with expansive spaces, and sheltered privacy.
Your missing Aalto and Loos. None of these post-modernist clowns should be on this list. Post- modernism was the door way to new urbanism and mediocracy.
You should look at a building and say "Wow!" because it is beautiful and not just weird for weird's sake. Let me wad up a piece of paper. Hey that would make a cool building. Not! And van der Rohe is the originator of the cookie cutter skyscraper. We have a building in my city that is identical to the Seagrams building and I've seen others in other cities.The credit should go to the person who designed the crackerbox. I'll take John Lautner any day.
I lived in New York City for 13 years. I passed through Walter Gropius' Pan Am building lobby hundreds of times coming out of Grand Central Terminal; was employed at 270 Park Avenue for two years (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) a building which has since been dismantled and is being rebuilt as a mega-tall skyscraper; and worked around the corner from Mies' Seagram Building (52nd and Park Ave) where I spent many hours sitting on its plaza and experiencing its excellence.
I put Pier Luigi Nervi on the same level as Leonardo Da Vinci. His creations in reinforced concrete are Works of Art.
If you are going there then Bucky gets the win
I love listening to your videos while doing my plates. Your videos are great, and they really inspire me to pursue architecture. I'll look forward to seeing more of your videos. Please continue making more videos.
Thanks so much!
As an architect I agree with all the architects on the list but one, that would be Philip Johnson. He wasn't a particularly good architect he was however a power broker and connected. There are a host of other architects with equal influence. Saarinen comes to mind. Johnson did a few buildings and talked a lot, copied the trends and talked a lot.
Saarinen holds a much greater place in my eyes than Phillip johnson ever will. Good call
File Johnson under Mies’ coat tails
A lot of outstanding modern architects were not mentioned, John Lautner certainly
being one of them.
Interesting. Maybe I'll do a video about Lautner.
@@robertsarchitecture Please do, that would be great.
@Darth Vader zaha isn’t In the category of modern architects
I agree
Wonderful list. I was just hoping to see Niemeyer with such names...
the tower concept in architectuer has ruined human habitat. Eco-friendly architecture is the need. When I walk in Thane the Tower Architecture covers the blue sky above us besides water and sanitary issues.
Thanks
Ranjan
I respect your picks but I do disagree with some of them. But you have hooked me and I look forward to other videos.
In the context of Nervi influencing Calatrava, should Gaudí not be mentioned as maybe the first to take structural lessons from nature which many others have adopted since?
Yes, good call. I never thought of it, but yes Calatrava is drawing inspiration from Gaudi.
I love your channel. I am a fine-artist and illustrator, and do concept art. Your videos are immensely insightful. I would love to see you deal with turn of the century architecture like Gaudí or elements from art deco and art nouveau.
Very Western Anglo European focus here. I prefer many Japanese architects such as Tange Kenzo, Kuma Kengo, Ando Tadao and Yoshio Taniguchi.
I agree, a lot of other people should have been on the list
Eliel and Eero Saarinen should be included
Great video, but, as people say, many important people left out. You should make another top 10 video so that you have a top 20!
Yes. I'll definitely do a follow up to this video with current architects.
15:42 My favorite point in the video where AI mispronounces Richard Neutra's last name!😄
Not surprising. It got Le Corbusier wrong too.
@@modfus The pronunciation was pretty awful throughout. "Atelier", "epitomized", were also mispronounced. Other than that, great video.
Next to the Bauhaus Architects should be mentioned one over all and that is Richard Buckminster Fuller
I will definitely do a video on Buckmister Fuller in the future.
Fuller whom I met once, was not really an architect he was more of a inventor, creator, innovator, theorist, all around thinker type
guess u missed Ieoh Ming Pei who designed the entrance for louvre in paris
What, no Gaudi? no Hadid? no Utzen? no Tadao Ando? no Arne Jacobsen? no Richard Rodgers? This list seems somewhat US centric in terms of influence. I am no architect...but my father was, and my views reflect both his influence and all that influenced him as well as my continued love of the architectural art form for some 50 years now. I am just grateful there are so many great architects who ably demonstrate the importance of the spaces we occupy so that when humans have an impact it is either minimal or inspirational or both
Não mencionar Oscar Niemeyer foi um erro grave desse documentário ... sem desmerecer nenhum dos arquitetos mencionados ... mas Oscar Niemeyer projetou uma cidade inteira que é Brasilia , capital do Brasil
Niemeyer projetou os edifícios principais, o projeto urbanístico foi de Lúcio Costa, que sempre é esquecido.
as a painter, this feels like someone trynna tell me that modern art is beautiful.
"Lois" Kahn? Sheesh. No mention of Kahn's mastery of light?
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Why are there any japan architect like
1- Sou Fujimoto
2- Itsuko Hasegawa
3- Tadao Ando
4- Toyo Ito
5- SANAA
6- Arata Isozaki
7- Kisho Kurokawa
8- Junya Ishigami
9- Hiroshi Nakamura
10- Hata Tomohiro
Good point! I should do a video exclusively on Japanese architects.
Who was the architect of the Chrysler building?
William Van Alen
@@robertsarchitecture Well that's my favourite Architect.
Those who watch this video must be rented, my soap is also rented😂
How about Tadao Ando and Ricardo Bofill?
Without I M Pei on the list, can not title as Top Ten Architects film, you have a dislike.
"LEE Corbusier" , "Palazzo Del Lavorno"!? etc...How did you graduate any school?
Saarinen and Paul Rudolph
Oscar Niemeyer was the best, with his plastic engineering and lightness
There can be only one: FLW
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How are you defining Modernism?
Good question! Modern architecture was a movement between the 1900s and the 1970s. I used the famous book "Modern Architecture Since 1900" by William Curtis as the research for this video. From all the comments here I think people want to see a video about current architects so I have a video planned for that.
@@robertsarchitecture 10 is an arbitrary number for making this list and 1970 is an arbitrary cut off date when your description says 20th century. Your list has no Constructivists, Futurists, Metabolists, Brutalists, West Coast Modernists, or Latin Americans.
"Technocratic ideals" oh, so that's where it went wrong... Scarpa is the only human on this list.
Frank Lloyd Wright was the only human on this list.
"if it sounds good, it is good." Duke Ellington If it looks good ...
Absolutely disagree with Frank Lloyd´s third place position. There were Oscar Niemeyr, Saarinen, Alto and so many. But ok, it´s a matter of oppinion
Scarpa is in the list, but Niemeyer is not?? right...
Do you list SOM but not Oscar Niemeyer? you don't know who a true modern architect is.
am i the only one who finds the chanting in the beginning of every mention annoying as fuck? But still a great video man keep it up, but without the chant.
thanks for the video... keep learning how to pronounce things properly... an informative style video that has alot of terms misread, becomes a joke. I did enjoy the material once i muted the video. I personally would have liked to have seen Oscar Niemeyer included in the content. -His iconic modern style shaped whole cities, not just buildings.
Architects are artists who design and pray, structural engineers answer their prayers.
A top 10 list of modern architects that doesn't include Jørn Utzon, is not worth the beer coaster its written on.
Great work, and I learned a lot. But please learn how to pronounce French. It’s not “Li.” It’s “LUH” the correct pronunciation. Or learn how to pronounce Atellier!
I used to have a strong Boston accent, which I've overcome, but still comes out for certain words!
Richard “Netura”
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Niemeyer????
Talking about influential architects, Zaha Hadid should be on your top 10, instead of Gehry for sure. Johnson is also here by some excident, and not Alto, Saarinen . . .
Zaha Hadid, imho, is the best. But then where does Modern Architecture begin, and it is still "on"?
Any list of modern Architects without Niemeyer is a joke.
Johnson is a poor choice. Aalto was using Sacred Geometry along with Wright and more recently Foster. Corb was also using it but had no idea what he was playing with. Wrights buildings have magical quality. Corbs do not. It is a case of the King not wearing any clothes with Corb. He was very good but too much ego. FLW genuinely wanted the best building whereas Corb wanted the best applause. You would only get an honest answer from a child as to whether Corb was any good. His one exception was Ronchamp but the rest was mediocre.
100%
sound effect after every name is annoying
Mitchell Giurgala have been treated quite poorly by Philadelphia. Much of their work has been torn down.
Neutra,
Yes you are right. I forgot him.
Ex technologie
LESS IS LESS.
Top 10 about the men who made this modern world unbreathable, boring and ugly.
You're right, all those ego-maniacs pretending to be artists denie the human factor.
What makes our environment more pleasant? Not modern architects.
LeCorbusier is easily the most overrated architect of all times. His works age quite bad (in state and in style), and many of them are reviewed by its users as nightmares to use or to live in. This guy main work was spending his carrieer overrating himself and, like in many other instances, people just followed his whim like sheeps.
Oscar Niemeyer who even influenced Le Corbusier and Zaha Hadid, this same one, another failure, which had him as an idol, was not only a lack, but a failure of this video. A great lack of universal knowledge in architecture.
Bauhaus should be called BOW WOW........A DOG !!
Oscar Niemeyer
Where is Zaha Hadid?
WHERE THE FUCK IS ZAHA in all this?!
Right here: ruclips.net/video/bxc-8AHLm-0/видео.html
Hey no Niemeyer???? The man BUILT a WHOLE city, a modernist marvel and did not make it to your list ? 🫣
Phillip Johnson does not belong on this list and Alvar Aalto is a glaring omission. One leading historian of modern architecture, William J.R. Curtis, would say that Corb, Mies, Wright, Aalto and Kahn were the most significant/influential/consequential modern architects.
Yes, Aalto would have been a good transition to regional Modernism. But I had to limit it to 10. Honorable mention maybe?
The matter it's this obsession of "top ten" rankings wich is a real pretentious desease for me.
@@Methilde desease
Excelente lista ! Muchos son arquitectos de lo monumental, Le Corbusier se preocupó por lo pequeño que es la vivienda, el problema más grande y antiguo , para ello dejó abierta la senda de que la industrialización es el camino para resolver la deficiencia habitacional, una vivienda es una máquina para habitar, es decir es un instrumento que permite satisfacer necesidades primordiales del hombre, por eso hay que evolucionar en su construcción, porque la humanidad aumentó en número, un gran maestro !
How about Alvar Aalto, considered as one of 5 pioneer modernist architect, considered by architectural historians & critics/theorists(Giedion, Frampton) who influenced lots of Scandinavian/Nordic architects as well as other US Postmodern, Deconstructivist & Post- structuralist architects & designers of Mier, Gehry & even 3rd/4th generation of contemporary architects (Utzon & Saarinen) through his buildings, urban planning, interior, furniture/furnishing designs greatly influenced a humanist as well as environmentalist designs & architecture w/the sensible/sensitive Finnish response for places & people.
Yes, Aalto would have been a good add or honorable mention.
@@robertsarchitecture Aalto is top 4
I would have liked to see Aalto on this list.
Niemeyer and Saarinen are glaring omissions. Both were more influential than Scarpa or Nervi. Saarinen's connection to Yale establishes a direct lineage between him and Rodgers and Foster. You can even glimpse the future (i.e., Zumthor and others) in Saarinen's Yale residential colleges.
I would also take Neutra over Johnson. Johnson followed the trends from the International Style to Postmodernism. Though not intentionally, but more because of the clarity of his work, (specifically its massing and detailing), Neutra almost single-handedly created the style that we know today as midcentury modern.
... Gehry is NOT a modern architect. To make that point, Phillip Johnson labeled Gehry a Deconstructivist. Gehry also does NOT belong that high on any list. He is a designer of spectacular forms. On the inside, his buildings are sheetrock palaces with no profound understanding of human scale, movement, and atmosphere.
As to SOM, its modern reputation is more or less the product of one architect (Gordon Bunshaft) and perhaps one building. It's not the Hancock Center, but the Lever House in New York.
Good points. I had to limit the list to ten, so impossible to include everyone. I focused on influential concepts, and not how good each architect was.
Scarpa is on this list as he was one of the first Modern architect to incorporate historic elements with the new. This is very important when doing renovation projects, or building in existing cities.
Nervi was one of the first to nail down how to incorporate modern building materials and modern structural engineering into Modern architecture. He is the direct inspiration for Calatrava.
Johnson invented the lie of the 'International Style'. Modernism wasn't international, nor was it a style. Modernism was a way of working, and a process. He reduced it to a 'style'. It was also not 'International', it was Northern European. He also brought the German Bauhaus to the U.S. and promoted 'industrial design' as a new art form. He also invented the term 'Postmodernism'. He wasn't the best architect, but his social influence was great. Both for good and bad.
You are right Gehry is a Postmodern architect, but I included him on this list because his profound effect on the profession. His office basically invented 3D modeling for complex geometries in architecture using Catia. There would be no Zaha Hadid or Bjarke Ingels without the design process he pioneered. Architects probably wouldn't be using Revit now if not for the success of this way of working.
SOM invented the image of the Modern skyscraper, and they have been pioneering how to work with international and regional clients while still being Modern.
@Roberts Architecture , @LDVTennis, BOTH with excelent points, cheers!!! thanks.
Well said, I do respect Gehry because he doing his own thing, he is experimenting, he is trying to figure out who he is, I respect that, I don't like his work but I respect his journey.
Dude are you serious? Nervi wasnt as influential??
@@rurathn5534 As an undergrad at Yale, I took Vincent Scully's Modern Architecture course. He did not mention any Nervi buildings. He did mention Saarinen and the engineering of his projects. He must have felt obligated because I learned later he was not fond of his work. Of course, Scully later changed his tune. Whatever the case, if Scully did not find Nervi influential enough to mention, I dare say I am not wrong to think he was not as influential as Saarinen.
Oscar Niemeyer
FLW brings in such a combination of elements. Most others on this list lean so heavily to concrete and glass. But I’m a wright fan so I’m probably biased 😂
Thanks for list. I’d include some more architects who influenced residential home building. It seems to me that the homes we live in influence us more than a public building we may see only a few times. Cliff May is a favorite.
Whatever one thinks of the list, what I found hopeful as an non-architect was an acknowledgement that the major trends of the 20th Century were the tail wagging the dog. The tail was the corporate world and it's architectural fulfillment in the "International Style." We are the dog, and what Wallace Harrison (Empire State Plaza) did not learn from Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, it is to be hoped that 21st Century architects have, i.e., that human beings want more than to be cogs in a corporate utopia.
Oscar Niemeyer
I'd like to see both Richard Meier and Niemeyer's names. (Santiago Calatrava as well)
How could Frank Gehry be a modern architect? He belongs to the express post modern school, so obvious.
Alvaro Siza, maybe after ten but i love him so much. Beauty lirism minimalistic version of Aalto, hero of sudeuropa that made beautiful things also all over the world.
Frank lloyd Wrigth estaria enojado por no estar en primera posición.
So where are we now? What ideas drive architecture today? Sustainability (I don’t think so)? A poor capitalist take on modernism? Capitalist branding architecture? I’m about to graduate from architecture school and I have no motivation to find a job because there is no direction as to what is contemporary.
There was a fad in the 2000s for 'Starchitects'. Folks like Gehry, Koolhaas, Hadid, Holl, Calatrava, Piano, and others. This was because of the 'Bilbao Effect' created by Gehry. There was a huge backlash against this in the profession, and now the big thing is being socially responsible. Equity and diversity, sustainability, Net-Zero, etc... .
The architecture profession loves fads, and jumps on whatever is the latest thing because architects are always trying to be 'relevant'. If you are just graduating I suggest finding out what you are passionate about and following that. Don't follow fads. They don't make for a long satisfying architectural career.
I very much appreciate your videos, thank you for creating them. With that said, I disagree with your list, especially Corbu as number one. As others have mentioned, Lautner, Aalto and Kahn don’t get even a mention
No Zaha Hadid? Seems like a big miss.
Zaha Hadid"s buiding style is not modernism, is futurism. Just do more research
Do another one focusing on the east, there are a lot of good architects from Asia aka japan and china etc
Yes. Great idea. Modern architecture is all about German and Northern Europeans and bringing this to the U.S. after WWII. I'll try to do a video on non-Western architecture soon.
@@robertsarchitecture Metabolism is very much in the modernist mainstream. Kenzo Tange
In the late 20th century, I saw a "post, beam, panel" architecture of the Arab palaces. They were not for outsiders. They had huge spaces, with protective elements against the heat and dryness of their world. Just enough light, but with expansive spaces, and sheltered privacy.
Your missing Aalto and Loos. None of these post-modernist clowns should be on this list.
Post- modernism was the door way to new urbanism and mediocracy.
A list that omits Albert Kahn, whose firm completed more buildings than this group combined, is not comprehensive.
Oscar Niemeyer, and Alto maybe missing...but Kahn my main influence.
Geary is right. There's no difference between an artist and an architect. His work sucks.
I Lol’d. Bad art bad arch. Haha
Gehry is wrong, huge difference. Fantastic work
You should look at a building and say "Wow!" because it is beautiful and not just weird for weird's sake. Let me wad up a piece of paper. Hey that would make a cool building. Not! And van der Rohe is the originator of the cookie cutter skyscraper. We have a building in my city that is identical to the Seagrams building and I've seen others in other cities.The credit should go to the person who designed the crackerbox. I'll take John Lautner any day.
1) Le Corbusier
2) Frank Ghery
3) frank Lloyd Wright
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Wright produced a richer variety than all the rest, but there is a wealth of ideas amongst them all.
you sure what about Mies?
Great clip but you left out the GOAT🐐 Zaha Hadid💥🔥😁
Next video coming out soon will have Zaha...
Where is zaha hadid
Mackintosh.
Love Mackintosh but not Modern.
Its beatiful design😅