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‘The purpose of architecture is to shelter and e

‘The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence’

Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Terminal at JFK - magnificent. Can’t see who to credit for this image!

Albert Frey House II, Palm Springs. Swiss-born F

Albert Frey House II, Palm Springs.

Swiss-born Frey (1903-1998) arrived in the US in 1934, he visited Palm Springs and was immediately taken with the extraordinary landscape, making a permanent move to the area in 1939 to form a partnership with John Porter Clark. Well schooled in Modernism, Frey had already worked in Belgium, followed by a short but important stint working for Corbusier in Paris. Frey was part of the team working on Villa Savoye, together with Josep Lluís Sert and Charlotte Perriand. His contribution to what we now call Desert Modernism has given him rightly an iconic status.

Today he is recognised as one of the most important Modernist architects of Palm Springs.

Photo with thanks to @pv_kuznetsov Pavel is a hugely knowledgeable researcher of 20th century architecture, a lecturer, museologist, and curator of exhibitions on Soviet avant-garde.

The Gunma Music Center in Takasaki, Gunma Prefectu

The Gunma Music Center in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, was designed by Czech-American architect Antonin Raymond and completed in 1961. It stands on the ruins of Takasaki Castle. Fact! The walls and roof are made from 120 mm thick folded concrete plates.

Modernist Czech-born American architect Antonin Raymond began his career with Cass Gilbert and then became part of Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio. He moved to Japan in the early 1920s and is recognised as one of the most influential foreign born architects to bring modernism to Japan.

The Gunma is one of his most widely known of Raymond’s buildings in Japan.

Brilliant photo by @fin.barr

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