#starchitect

[estesthetics]

Diaries: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain 🇪🇸

June 2025

Architect: Frank Gehry

[shadowsandforms]

Diaries : Unité d’habitation

Architect: Le Corbusier

Location: Marseille France 🇫🇷

@shadowsandforms

[theluxuryminimalist]

This stunning structure is the Florida Polytechnic University designed by “starchitect” Santiago Calatrava, and had been on my “to see” list for a while now. Here are my photos from my visit.

Jaw-dropping, futuristic, minimal, organic, uplifting, and oddly comforting, its soaring frond-like arches feel like an airy spatial embrace. Perhaps a small influence from M.C. Escher’s “Architecture?” Calatrava is known for this beautiful modern architecture style, simplistic in lines yet complex in construction.

Inside, polished concrete floors and white curvilinear walls are both practical and beautiful, and the encircling “moat” surrounding the building is stocked with aquatic life, landscapes with palm trees, and lush lawns.

The lounge up the stairs from the main entrance’s furniture gives LeCorbusier LC2 feels, surely an intentional nod.

It’s a rare talent that can envision concrete and steel elevated into such an incredible lightness of being. No wonder Santiago Calatrava’s designs set my heart a-flutter.

[meniarrabie]

Noémie Fondation Louis Vuitton par Franck Gehry, Paris, France Février 2020

[noosphe-re]

I have suggested that the star system, which is unfair to many architects, is doubly hard on women in a sexist environment, and that, at the upper levels of the profession, the female architect who works with her husband will be submerged in his reputation. My interpretations are speculative. We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry. But I do get support for my thesis from women architects, from some members of my firm and from my husband. Should there be a star system? It is unavoidable, I think, owing to the prestige we give design in architecture. But the schools can and should reduce the importance of the star system by broadening the student’s view of the profession to show value in its other aspects. Heaven knows, skills other than design are important to the survival of architecture firms. The schools should also combat the student’s sense of inadequacy about design, rather than, as now, augmenting it through wrongly authoritarian and judgmental educational techniques. With these changes, architects would feel less need for gurus, and those they would need would be different—more responsible and humane than gurus are asked to be today.

Denise Scott Brown, Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture, 1989

[lucindervention]

Did you know that out of the forty planned Donald Wexler steel houses, less than a quarter of which were actually made? #starchitect The accordion roof may look quite thick at first glance, but if you zoom in on the scupper {or the drainage outlet on the bottom angles of the roof}, you can see that it is at the very bottom of what appears to be the assembly, which indicates that the roof is actually wafer thin. #steel #architecture #architecturalhistory #ontheroadwithLucindervention #savingplaces #palmsprings #visitpalmsprings #modernarchitecture #midcenturymodern #midcenturymodernhotel #midcenturymodernarchitecture #thisplacematters #heritagetourism #historicpreservation @visitcalifornia @savingplaces @visitpalmsprings @docomomous @psmodcom @modernism_week (at Palm Springs, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGPWv_gqzu/?igshid=gbb77e383l6q

[zeanmacfarlane]

Deck House - Zean Macfarlane

http://zeanmacfarlane.com/

[browndavisblog]

Installing a beautiful floor from @wtrwrks #marble #stone #floors #architecture #interiordesign #starchitect #bathroom #underconstuction (at Miami Beach, Florida)