co.ntro.versarch

This is a space for controversial architecture that is or has been object of discussion through time. Explore.

[juliaknz]

HERZOG & DE MEURON RUE DE SUISSE, 1999 Paris, France Images © Margherita Spiluttini

[s48studio]

Ashizuri Underwater Observation Tower // Ashizuri-Uwakai National Park,Japan

source: https://showaspotmegri.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2021/10/post-15b8f4.html  via: 

Irène DB

[controversarch]

[ofhouses]

934. Rural Studio /// Shepard and Alberta Bryant Haybale House /// Mason’s Bend, Alabama, USA /// 1994

OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part IV: SuperAmerican. (Photos: © Timothy Hursley. Source: Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, “Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency", New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.)

[ofhouses]

905. Kazuyo Sejima /// Platform II /// Kitakoma-gun, Yamanashi, Japan /// 1988-90

OfHouses presents Heroes VI: Sejima & Nishizawa. (Photos: © Shinkenchiku-sha; Tomio Ohashi. Source: El Croquis no. 077 [I] “Kazuyo Sejima 1988-1996″, pp.16-19.)

[hiddenarchitecture]

Aldo Rossi - Cimitero di San Cataldo - Modena, Italy - 1971-78

Via CCA

[subtilitas]

Lacaton & Vassal - Detached house, Coutras 2000. Scans via, photos © Hisao Suzuki, Philippe Ruault.

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[controversarch]

MOON HOUSE // Jim Miller Melberg // 1950-1980.

[darquitectura]

BBPR, Torre Velasca, 1956-58, Milano

[texnh]

Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown – Lieb House

1969, Barnegat Light (US)

via #1, #2, #3

Photos: © Stephen Hill

[controversarch]

“Learning from Lieb House”

[texnh]

BESSIRE WINTER – House Reckholderweg

2018, Oberdorf (CH)

via #1

Photos: © Paola Caputo

[texnh]

Carl Pruscha – Taragaon Hostel

1971, Boudha (NP)

via #1, #2

Photos: © Carl Pruscha

[wmud]

happel cornelisse verhoeven with julian harrap architects - museum de lakenhal, leiden, netherlands, 2020 foto: karin borghouts

[subtilitas]

TEN Studio - Avala house (house for a craftsman), Belgrade 2020. Wow. Photos © Maxime Delvaux, Milos Martinovic, Relja Ivanic.

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[communedesign]

Designer Graves

After seeing the release of Factory Records founder Tony Wilson’s grave, we had a feeling that some of our other favorite designers wouldn’t have missed the opportunity to make their last visual statement…

Tony Wilson; founder of Factory Records. 1950 - 2007. Grave designed by Peter Saville and Ben Kelly.

Bruce Goff; architect. 1904 - 1982

Alvar Aalto; architect & designer. 1898 - 1976

Adolf Loos; architect. 1870 - 1933

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; architect & furniture designer. 1886 - 1969. 

Paul Rand; graphic designer. 1914 - 1996.

Frank Lloyd Wright; architect. 1867 - 1959

Manon Gropius, daughter of Walter Gropius. 1916 - 1935. Grave designed by Walter Gropius.

Le Corbusier; architect, designer, & painter. 1887 - 1965.

Carlo Scarpa; architect. 1906 - 1978. Scarpa actually designed the entire cemetery he was buried in. Scarpa was commissioned by the Brion family to design an addition to the preexisting cemetery. In classic Scarpa style, he created a monumental tomb with immaculate architectural detail. Scarpa must have loved his end product so much, that he was buried there himself.

Brion Cemetery, designed by Carlo Scarpa. 

[controversarch]

Diogene // RPBW // 2011 - 2013 // WEIL AM RHEIN, GERMANY

[controversarch]

Diogene // RPBW // 2011 - 2013 // WEIL AM RHEIN, GERMANY

[tobebuild]

SC Johnson Wax Research Tower, Racine Frank Lloyd Wright 1949