Great Architects

[heyronnie]

<p>Aside from Frank Gehry and Art Vandelay.&nbsp; I submit Louis Kahn:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span class="post_edited"><a href="http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/jpg/Kahn_Salk2.jpg">http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/jpg/Kahn_Salk2.jpg</a></span></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by heyronnie on 5-4-06 @ 10:59 PM</span>

[mdr55]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>heyronnie</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Aside from Frank Gehry and Art Vandelay. I submit Louis Kahn:</p><p> </p><p><img border="0" src="http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/salk/salk1.jpg%3Cimg%20src=" /></p><p> </p><p>Not saying anyone is better than the other. I'm just saying I enjoy Louie Kahn. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Wow! That's a nice X.&nbsp;</p><blockquote /><p>&nbsp;</p>

[heyronnie]

<p>Can't get it to work right.&nbsp; Anyway, I was listening to yesterdays show with Sidney Pollack and I thought I'd throw out&nbsp;an architect I enjoy.</p>

[thepaulo]

<p>Edmund Bacon</p><p>Kevin's father</p><p>he built the city of Philedelphia</p><p>at least some of it but probably not on Rock and Roll</p>

[curtoid]

<strong>mdr55</strong> wrote: <strong>heyronnie</strong> wrote: <p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/salk/salk1.jpg%3Cimg%20src=" border="0" /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Wow! That's a nice X.&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.xtheband.com/images/burningxoflove.gif" border="0" /></p>

[FezPaul]

<font face="courier new,courier,monospace" color="#993399" size="3">I'll be Captain Obvious, and say Frank Lloyd Wright</font>

[furie]

Howard Roark

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by furie on 5-5-06 @ 12:11 PM</span>

[Sheeplovr]

<p>I Submit </p><p><img width="270" height="270" border="0" src="http://fiw.web.infoseek.co.jp/80s/img/116.jpg" /></p><p>They built a whole city with Rock and Roll and jizz&nbsp;</p>

[mikeyboy]

Mike Brady

[curtoid]

<strong>mikeyboy</strong> wrote:<br />Mike Brady <p>If he was so good, how come he couldn't build Bibi Gollini's powder puff factory?</p>

[landarch]

What about Landscape Architects?&nbsp; There's James Rose and Ian McHarg, and Central Park's designer, Frederick Law Olmsted.

[Billy Staples]

<font size="2"><strong>George Costanza....of the Architectual Firm, Vandalay Industries wasn't it?</strong></font>

[Crash]

<p>Helmut Jahn, who single handedly gave us back the skyscraper, after twenty years of no-talent modernists dropped glass boxes all over our country.</p><p>Frank Ghery for never assuming that a material has a specific place, a form has a specific purpose, or that a type of building must look a certain way.</p><p>Michael Graves for&nbsp;rescuing us from the sterility&nbsp;of post-modern brutalism and saying that a little ornamentation is okay.</p><p>Louis Sullivan for giving up his life for his art and leaving a lasting impression on a young Frank Lloyd Wright.</p><p>And Wright who, when every other architect in America was shamlessly ripping off&nbsp;the latest European&nbsp;style, dared to develop&nbsp;his own style based on the lines and horizontality of the mid-west and become America's first true architect.</p><p>Not that I'm sayin'. I'm just sayin.&nbsp;</p>

[Crash]

Oh yeah, and Mike Brady.

[torker]

Croix.&nbsp; Ronald Regan stole her architecture.

[SatCam]

Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, the three men who designed this work of art:

http://lekowicz.com/library/images/eur_live_pompidou.jpg

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http://www.pukeplanet.com/images/vomit.jpg

[Hottub]

<a href="http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/pei.html" target="_blank">I. M. Pei!!&nbsp; Great body of work.</a>

[FezPaul]

<strong>Hottub</strong> wrote:<br /><a href="http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/pei.html" target="_blank">I. M. Pei!!&nbsp; Great body of work.</a> <p><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="2">I'll agree that Pei is a great architect, but putting this in front of the Louvre, is like putting a CB antentae on a Ferrari.</font></p><p><img src="http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/FezPaul/pei_louvre01.jpg" border="0" /><br /></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by FezPaul on 5-5-06 @ 9:40 PM</span>

[tele7]

<p><img src="http://www.foxhome.com/aboutmary/assets/castcrew/img_dillon.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>I do my best work next to soccer stadiums</p>

[FezPaul]

<strong>curtoid</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>mikeyboy</strong> wrote:<br />Mike Brady <p>If he was so good, how come he couldn't build Bibi Gollini's powder puff factory?</p><p><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="3">Or some T cells.(wakka-wakka)</font></p>

[heyronnie]

<strong>Crash</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Helmut Jahn, who single handedly gave us back the skyscraper, after twenty years of no-talent modernists dropped glass boxes all over our country.</p><p>Frank Ghery for never assuming that a material has a specific place, a form has a specific purpose, or that a type of building must look a certain way.</p><p>Michael Graves for&nbsp;rescuing us from the sterility&nbsp;of post-modern brutalism and saying that a little ornamentation is okay.</p><p>Louis Sullivan for giving up his life for his art and leaving a lasting impression on a young Frank Lloyd Wright.</p><p>And Wright who, when every other architect in America was shamlessly ripping off&nbsp;the latest European&nbsp;style, dared to develop&nbsp;his own style based on the lines and horizontality of the mid-west and become America's first true architect.</p><p>Not that I'm sayin'. I'm just sayin.&nbsp;</p><p>Very impressive, and a nice post.</p>

[Mr.Pants]

Buckminster Fuller wanted to dome the entire city of East St. Louis. He's got my vote.