
Architecture
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TOMB OF SHER SHAH SURI
SASARAM, BIHAR, INDIA
1540-1545 AD
CASTEL DEL MONTE
FREDERICK THE GREAT
1240 AD
VILLA HVĚZDA
FERDINAND II, AUSTRIA
1555
ROMEO AND JULIET
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
1896
STAIR AT “MOTHER’S HOUSE”
ROBERT VENTURI
1964
PHILLIP JOHNSON
ARCHITECT
2000
PIRANESI
A FLIGHT OF FANCY
1762
R. Buckminster Fuller
Cover of TIME Magazine
1963
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fountainhead of Diagonality
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The Butterfly Plan
Great Britain
1890s
FREEMAN HOUSE
Gunnar Birkerts, Architect
1965-1966
CANADIAN PAVILION – Expo 67
Rod Robbie & Colin vaughn
1967
Caracas Museum of Modern Art
Oscar Niemeyer, architect
1945-1955
The Seattle Central Library
Rem Koolhaas/OMA
2004
Tokyo Budokan, Japan
Kijo Rokkaku, architect
1989
Dymaxion House
R. Buckminster Fuller
1920
Watertown Octagon House
John Richards
1854
The Bank of China, Hong Kong
I.M. Pei and Partners
Completed 1990
House of Tomorrow, Indiana
Fred Keck, architect
1933
The Summit at University City
SCB, architects
2015
DRAWING ON HISTORY
LOUIS I. KAHN
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Jewish Museum, Berlin
Daniel Libeskind
1989
Puerta de Europa
Johnson & Burgee, architects
1996
CONTEMPORAY JEWISH MUSEUM
DANIEL LIBESKIND
2008
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
Jerusalem
691-692
TOUR FIRST, Paris
Kohn Pedersen Fox
2007-2011
Pollock-Wariner House
Bruce Goff, architect
1957
Tower of the Winds
Andronicus of Kyrrhos
48 BC
Notre Dame, Paris
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12th century to 14th century
Foundation Louis Vuitton
Frank Gehry,architect
2014
“Crystal Chapel”
Bruce Goff, architect
1950
THE WILLIAM VALE HOTEL
Yohay Albo & Nicholas Liberis
2017
GÜNTHER DOMENIG
A troubled genius
1934-2012
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
SOM Architects
1978-1983
IVRY-SUR-SEINE
JEAN RENAUDIE, Architect
1968
Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1921
Constructivism
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The Daring Diagonal Virtual MuseumA division of the Center for the Study of Diagonality in World CultureMonument: 3rd InternationalVladimir Tatlin1919-1920also known as Tatlin’s Tower Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953) Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International...
Axial Rotation
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Ancient Egypt
Triangular Lodge at Rushton
Sir Thomas Tresham
1593-1597
MIRA Tower
Studio Gang, architects
2020
City Tower Project
Louis Kahn & Anne Tyng
1952-1957
Uraniborg
Tycho Brahe
1576-1580
Beth Shalom Synagogue
Frank Lloyd Wright
1953-1959
Ramps
Ancient Egypt
c. 1,500 BC
The Shard
Renzo Piano
2000 – 2013
Poplar Forest
Thomas Jefferson
1806
Pyramids Through the Ages
Egypt and Elsewhere
2,700 BC – Today
“Glass Architecture”
Paul Scheerbart
1914
Hearst Tower, New York
Sir Norman Foster, architect
2006
The City Crown
Bruno Taut
1919
VIA 57 West, New York
BIG, architect
2013
East Wing-National Gallery
I. M. Pei and Associates
1968-1978
Glaushaus
Bruno Taut
1914
Villamil Residence
Raphael Villamil
1976
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