Kenzo Tange, Tokyo Bay Project (1960).

Kenzo Tange, Tokyo Bay Project (1960)

Top: Design for Caen-Herouville by Shadrach Woods of Team X, published in Urbanism Is Everybody's Business (Stuttgart: Karl Krämer, 1968) Bottom: A new urban structure imposed upon an older fabric. Based on a drawing by Yona Friedman in L'Architecture Mobile (Tournai, Belgium: Casterman, 1970.)

1 Kenzo Tange, Tokyo Bay Project (1960); transit network and housing quarters

The 1933 rendering of Plan Obus for Algiers demonstrates Le Corbusier's superimposition of modern forms: the long arching roadway that includes housing- his viaduct city- connecting central Algiers to its suburbs and the curvilinear complex of housing in the heights that accesses the waterfront business district via an elevated highway bypassing the Casbah. http://www.bidoun. com/issues/issue_ 6/05_all.html

Paul Rudolph, Lower Manhattan Expressway project, 1970, and Hans Hollein (Austrian), Aircraft Carrier (original title is “Flugzeugträger,” 1964)

2 The Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier “Ronald Reagan” is 1,092 feet long, towering 20 stories above the waterline, home to 6,000 sailors, carrying more than 80 aircraft, with a 4.5 acre flight deck and a cruising speed in excess of 30 knots (34.5 mph).

Archigram, Project for “A Walking City,” 1964

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3 Peter Cook in 2004, with “Plug-In City” project and issue #4, “Archigram 4”

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Archigram, “The Cushicle,” an portable, inflatable environment, 1965

4 Kisho Kurokawa, Nakagin Capsule Tower, 1972: 140 detachable spatial units joined to a central core for services and circulation

Peter Cook, Museum of Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria, 2003

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Cedric Price, Project for a Fun Palace, 1962

(for a brief but very literate curatorial statement go to http://www.arch.columbia.edu/gsap/54880 )

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Buckminster Fuller with his model for the Dymaxion House, 1929

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Case Study House #8, Charles and Ray Eames, 1949, Los Angeles (Pacific Palisades)

Le Corbusier, Pavilion for the Paris Decorative Arts Exhibition of 1925, “Pavilion L’Esprit Nouveau”

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Case Study House #8, Charles and Ray Eames

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9 Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig, 1959-60, perspective view

Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig, 1959-60 – the “free-floating roof shelter oriented to an expansive panorama.”

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10 Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig, 1959-60, plan

Julius Shulman, Photograph of Case Study House #22 (Pierre Koenig, architect, Los Angeles, 1959–60), 1960

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Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig, 1959-60, glamorization of a CA landscape and lifestyle

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Superstudio, founded 1966 by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Roberto Magris, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro Magris and Alessandro Poli. 1969 project: “The Continuous Monument, An Architectural Model For Total Urbanisation, 1969-71”

13 “The Continuous Monument, An Architectural Model For Total Urbanisation, 1969-71”

Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, friends since early boyhood, combine the Archigram/Cedric Price/Case Study House sensibilities and win a major competition for the Pompidou Centre, Paris, 1971-77 Competition drawing of facade, 1971

Competition drawing showing section, 1971

14 Rogers and Piano, Pompidou Centre, 1977

Rogers and Piano, Pompidou Centre, entry façade from plaza

Rogers and Piano, Pompidou Centre, infrastructure on facade

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Cutaway view of Pompidou Centre, 1971

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