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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 the future came into being. Once out of Eden folks have been trying to get back to the garden. Architects speculate on the future, some as utopia or dystopia, but few get to actually build it. The future can be quite a daunting thing to dream up but not for Oscar Niemeyer. He received a commission for the city of the future in 1962. The c

Architects are strange people. They go to weird places for weird reasons The Maison de Verre, or house of Glass by Pierre Chareau in Paris, France is one of these places. The glass block facade allows for massive amounts of light but still affords total privacy. Although industrial in materials the building is delicate and in some ways Japanese in style because of the simplicity and honesty of construction. Quite a nice place, and a very unique gynecologist office and home. G

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 the same campus, Bryn Mawr College, as the Norman / Collegiate style buildings that preceded it. Kahn's use of slate veneers, light turrets, and crenelations are subtle but meant to make his mid 20th century Edman Dormitory fit into the Bryn Mawr campus. Kahn may have been the first modern contexturalist. The entry door is a nice detail and

The international style. In 1932 Henry-Russel Hitchcock and Phillip Johnson curated an exhibit at the MOMA with that name. It championed a new and unique architectural design that stripped buildings of cultural reference in ornament, structure, and joinery. Within the context of world cities they were clean and unique from the stacked temples dedicated to old world civilizations. The Seagrams building in NYC by Mies Van Der Rohe was the one of the first of these slabs, clothe