Ken HaskinJan 24, 20171 minGropius--From Bauhaus to his HouseThis little gem is the Walter Gropius house. Gropius may be one of the most underrated architects of the 20th century. His tenure as dean...
Ken HaskinDec 29, 20162 minMac Attack!- 250th birthday of Charles Rennie MackintoshTHE 250th BIRTHDAY OF CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH! I love that man---and his wife. Mac was what I aspired to be an architect-- unique in al...
Ken HaskinDec 17, 20161 minLogical, 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 actu...
Ken HaskinNov 22, 20161 minTHE FUTURE CIRCA 1962: BRASILIAEver 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...
Ken HaskinNov 16, 20163 minZaha 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 w...
Ken Haskin, RANov 13, 20161 minGlass Block Heads-Maison De VerreArchitects are strange people. They go to weird places for weird reasons The Maison de Verre, or house of Glass by Pierre Chareau in Pari...
Ken HaskinNov 13, 20161 minFalling 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 sup...
Ken HaskinNov 13, 20161 minNorman, 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...
Ken Haskin, RANov 13, 20161 minFrankly, Frank- Suntop HomesSuntop 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 th...
Ken Haskin, architectNov 13, 20161 minNowhere is Everywhere-the International StyleThe international style. In 1932 Henry-Russel Hitchcock and Phillip Johnson curated an exhibit at the MOMA with that name. It championed ...
Ken HaskinNov 13, 20161 minSquare and Round--Palladio and Le CorbusierPalladio,who designed Villa Rotunda in Vicenza, Italy, may be one of the first modern architects. He played with structure and spatial de...
Kenneth HaskinNov 1, 20161 minOnce more into the breech, Gottfried BohmI 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 n...
Kenneth HaskinOct 31, 20161 minItalian Futurism Vs. Italian FascismThe turn of the 20th century brought revolution to Europe. The Euro-Russians had a movement, Constructivism, that flourished in art, mu...
Kenneth HaskinOct 31, 20161 minBeing FrankThe Winslow house in Oak Park, Illinoise.( Top) by Frank Lloyd Wright. Though other homes he designed had some of the elements of the Pra...
Ken HaskinOct 31, 20161 minIf 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 permi...
Kenneth Haskin, RAOct 30, 20161 minOtis, My Man!Elisha Otis perfected the elevator by inventing an emergency brake to prevent falls. He presented this elevator at the1854 New York exhib...
