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MFAH Beck Building
Rafael Moneo's limestone pavilion for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — a building of restrained surfaces and carefully measured light.
MFAH Kinder Building
Steven Holl's translucent museum of concave and convex tubes — a building that glows from within and dissolves the line between gallery and garden.
Schindler House
Rudolph Schindler's 1922 experiment in living — a house built from concrete, glass, and canvas that dissolved the boundary between indoor and outdoor life in West Hollywood.
Fondation Beyeler
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Notre-Dame du Haut
Applying Harold Rosenberg's concept of Action Painting to Le Corbusier's first sketch for the Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut — where the tracing paper becomes an arena in which to act.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Carlo Scarpa's 1963 renovation of a Venetian palazzo — where water is not kept out but invited in, and every joint is a meditation on how materials meet.
Negozio Olivetti
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Villa La Roche
Le Corbusier's 1925 manifesto in built form — a house designed as a promenade architecturale, where movement through space is the architecture itself.
Villa Savoye
Le Corbusier's white box in the fields of Poissy — the building that codified modern architecture's five points and turned a weekend house into a manifesto.
California Academy of Sciences
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Hyatt Regency San Francisco
John Portman's atrium hotel on the Embarcadero — a vertical interior city where concrete balconies spiral upward around a seventeen-story void.
Chapel of St. Ignatius
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Seattle Central Library
Rem Koolhaas and OMA's diamond-skinned library in downtown Seattle — a building that treats books, light, and public space as a single continuous material.
平成知新館 Heisei Chishinkan Wing, Kyoto National Museum
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櫻花陵園 Cherry Blossom Cemetery
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Katsura Imperial Villa
A seventeenth-century villa and garden in Kyoto that taught modern architecture everything it thought it invented — modular space, fluid plan, the dissolution of wall and landscape.
He Art Museum
Tadao Ando's concrete double-helix museum in Shunde, where circular geometry and water courts bring contemplative silence to the Pearl River Delta.