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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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