Ken Haskin
Gropius--From Bauhaus to his House
This little gem is the Walter Gropius house. Gropius may be one of the most underrated architects of the 20th century. His tenure as dean...
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Ken Haskin
- Dec 29, 2016
- 2 min
Mac Attack!- 250th birthday of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
THE 250th BIRTHDAY OF CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH! I love that man---and his wife. Mac was what I aspired to be an architect-- unique in...
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Ken Haskin
- Dec 17, 2016
- 1 min
Logical, Contextural, and Ugly (?)
I was there. Peter Eisenman designed an apartment building right in front of Checkpoint Charlie. The skewed grid is because the wall...
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Ken Haskin
- Nov 21, 2016
- 1 min
THE FUTURE CIRCA 1962: BRASILIA
Ever wonder what the future will be like? Since that darnn apple was bitten by humans we have been stuck with memory and so the past and...
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Ken Haskin
- Nov 15, 2016
- 3 min
Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry--two architects I love, and love to hate.
This past March the architecture world lost Zaha Hadid. Her passing left me sad. Anyone passing at a young age (65) is tragic and Zaha...
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Ken Haskin, RA
- Nov 13, 2016
- 1 min
Glass Block Heads-Maison De Verre
Architects are strange people. They go to weird places for weird reasons The Maison de Verre, or house of Glass by Pierre Chareau in...
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Ken Haskin
- Nov 13, 2016
- 1 min
Falling Water, Failing Frank? Wright, Right?
Many people love Falling Water, the house near Pittsburgh, PA, designed for the Kaufmann family by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Wright...
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Ken Haskin
- Nov 13, 2016
- 1 min
Norman, wake up! Modern Centexturlism?
What do these modern and Norman buildings have in common? More than you may think. The modern dormitory is by Louis I Kahn and is part of...
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Ken Haskin, RA
- Nov 13, 2016
- 1 min
Frankly, Frank- Suntop Homes
Suntop homes in Ardmore, PA by Frank Lloyd Wright are not really about the outside but the inside. There are 4 units of housing all in...
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Ken Haskin, architect
- Nov 13, 2016
- 1 min
Nowhere is Everywhere-the International Style
The international style. In 1932 Henry-Russel Hitchcock and Phillip Johnson curated an exhibit at the MOMA with that name. It championed...
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Ken Haskin
- Nov 13, 2016
- 1 min
Square and Round--Palladio and Le Corbusier
Palladio,who designed Villa Rotunda in Vicenza, Italy, may be one of the first modern architects. He played with structure and spatial...
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Kenneth Haskin
- Nov 1, 2016
- 1 min
Once more into the breech, Gottfried Bohm
I have been posting a lot of architecture stuff. Why? Because I love it. I changed the format to a blog on my Web site yesterday and do...
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Kenneth Haskin
- Oct 31, 2016
- 1 min
Italian Futurism Vs. Italian Fascism
The turn of the 20th century brought revolution to Europe. The Euro-Russians had a movement, Constructivism, that flourished in art,...
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Kenneth Haskin
- Oct 31, 2016
- 1 min
Being Frank
The Winslow house in Oak Park, Illinoise.( Top) by Frank Lloyd Wright. Though other homes he designed had some of the elements of the...
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Ken Haskin
- Oct 31, 2016
- 1 min
If you do not like red, Tschumi (sue me)
When I was at Columbia the DEAN! was Bernard Tschumi. (Rhymes with sue me) He was a suave dude who always wore a red scarf--weather...
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Kenneth Haskin, RA
- Oct 30, 2016
- 1 min
Otis, My Man!
Elisha Otis perfected the elevator by inventing an emergency brake to prevent falls. He presented this elevator at the1854 New York...
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