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FAMOUS ARCHITECTS


Felix Candela 1910-1997 LINK TO HIS ARCHITECTURE
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Tuareg tents in the Sahara Desert (design reference)
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Felix's Bacardi visitors pavilion 1960 
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Felix's Los Manantiales, (The Flower Restaurant) Mexico City 1958.  ​http://www.archdaily.com/496202/ad-classics-los-manantiales-felix-candela

FAMOUS ARCHITECTS - THE GREATS

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frank lloyd wright

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julia morgan

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antoni gaudi

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le corbusier

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Eileen grey

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oscar niemeyer

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mies van de rohe

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zaha hadid

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Walter gropius


fAMOUS ARCHITECTS - ASIAN MODERNISTS

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i.m pei

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toyo ito

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tado ando

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kenzo tange

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shigeru ban

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ma yansong


FAMOUS ARCHITECTS - CONTEMPORARY GREATS

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frank gehry

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sir norman foster

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hertzog de muron

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jean nouvel

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snohetta


NEW ZEALAND ARCHITECTS

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sir miles warren

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fearon hay

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pattersons

Andrew Patterson
pattersons.com.
nzia.co.nz/awards/gold-medal/2017-gold-medal-andrew-patterson.
nzia.co.nz/explore/interviews/andrew-patterson-gold-medal-interview.
Andrew Patterson projects. 

1989 Knight Klisser House, Parnell. 
The citation for this house’s 1992 NZIA National Award read: “A seductive solution to town planning constraints and a difficult site, this house generates excitement even before you enter inside. Breaking with traditional conceptions of rooms and hallways, this home is a ‘living machine’ full of warmth, grace, harmony and enchantment.” The house also won a CHH Residential Award in 1991, and is visible from the Waitoa Street end of Awatea Reserve. 

1991 Axis, Parnell. The Axis project, which involved the adaptive re-use of Chilwell & Trevithick’s Nestle Factory (1925-7), was a big step up in scale for the young Patterson, still a fairly recent graduate. Much of the old building fabric was retained in the makeover from factory to mixed-use metropolis, with Patterson’s steel signage, gates, bridges, balconies and staircases all easily identifiable as new work. References to Batman comic books and Gotham City have been suggested. The building’s oblique corner site gave rise to the two structural grids that together generate a sense of skewing and tension, most obviously apparent in the design of the central courtyard space. 

2 Summer St, Ponsonby. In 1999, this house was identified by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Bill McKay as one of New Zealand’s “top 50 homes”. They commented that it “managed to appear both aggressive and defensive” at the same time. Wrapped in a metal casing, this inwardfocused house responds to its gritty urban site and, in doing so, rejects the suburban cottage norm of not only Ponsonby, but indeed New Zealand. Within, two simple volumes and a colonade of massive columns are gathered around a pool. The house received a CHH Residential Award in 1992 and a Resene Distinguished Architectural Design Award in 1993. 

D72, Dominion Road, Mt Eden. Developed for the same client as Axis, D-72 involved the refurbishment of a 1960s commercial building. It is celebrated for its contribution to the streetscape, a consequence of its new skin of woven, perforated aluminium strips that both turns the building into a local landmark and serves to limit solar gain internally. The weaving also signals Patterson’s interest in taking inspiration from, and making reference to, Polynesian culture and patterns. The key change internally was the introduction of an oval-shaped courtyard space with a landscaped centre contained and framed by more woven strips and, in turn, the building’s main horizontal and vertical circulation systems. The building received a BOMA Award in 1996, an NZIA Branch Award in 1999 and a NZIA Regional Award in 2000.

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