Otto Wagner – Postsparkassenhocker

Written on 06/04/2009 – 19:25 | by admin |

Otto Wagner: "Postsparkassenhocker", stool for the Postal Savings Bank, Vienna  Bent beech wood, molded plywood, aluminium, 1904 >

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Jean Nouvel – Less Table

Written on 04/14/2009 – 12:53 | by admin |

  Jean Nouvel: "Less Table", pultruded and welded steel, 1994 >

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Walter Gropius – Packaged House System

Written on 04/14/2009 – 12:08 | by admin |

Walter Gropius, Konrad Wachsmann: "Packaged House System", modular system for small apartment houses, 1942-45 >, >

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Ken Isaacs – Microhouse

Written on 04/08/2009 – 00:24 | by admin |

Ken Isaacs:  "Microhouse", small scale, modular building systems of stressed-skin plywood and steel pipes, 1962/63 Video  

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Shigeru Ban – Pavilion for Artek

Written on 02/18/2009 – 11:47 | by admin |

Shigeru Ban: "Pavilion for Artek" UPM ProFi, 2007

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Haus-Rucker-Co – Yellow Heart

Written on 12/12/2008 – 18:43 | by admin |

Haus-Rucker-Co: Yellow Heart, 1968 The idea that a concentrated experience of space could offer a direct approach to changes in consciousness led to the construction of a pneumatic space capsule, called the "Yellow Heart". Through a lock made of three air rings one arrived at a transparent plastic mattress. Offering just enough space for two […]

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Richard Buckminster Fuller – Montreal Biosphère

Written on 08/03/2008 – 16:13 | by admin |

Richard Buckminster Fuller: "Montreal Biosphère", The United States pavilion of the World Exposition in Montreal, 1967 >

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Sanaa New Museum

Written on 06/26/2008 – 14:27 | by admin |

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa from Sanaa: "New Museum", 2007  

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Sanaa Zollverein School

Written on 06/19/2008 – 20:14 | by admin |

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa from Sanaa: "Zollverein School of management and design", 2006 >

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