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    Gropius--From Bauhaus to his House
    Ken Haskin
    • Jan 24, 2017
    • 1 min

    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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    Mac Attack!- 250th birthday of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
    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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    Logical, Contextural, and Ugly (?)
    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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    THE FUTURE CIRCA 1962: BRASILIA
    Ken Haskin
    • Nov 22, 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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    Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry--two architects I love, and love to hate.
    Ken Haskin
    • Nov 16, 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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    Glass Block Heads-Maison De Verre
    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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    Falling Water, Failing Frank? Wright, Right?
    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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    Norman, wake up! Modern Centexturlism?
    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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    Frankly, Frank- Suntop Homes
    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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    Nowhere is Everywhere-the International Style
    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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    Square and Round--Palladio and Le Corbusier
    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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    Once more into the breech, Gottfried Bohm
    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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    Italian Futurism Vs. Italian Fascism
    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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    Being Frank
    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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    If you do not like red, Tschumi (sue me)
    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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    Otis, My Man!
    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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