Frank Lloyd Wright
Racine. Wisconsin, USA. 1938
 Recreation Building office space Johnson. Drawing of Hugh Ferris
The building for the company Johnson Wax in Racine is one of the masterpieces of the great American architect. A job may be considered the most important piece of architecture created in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Wright deployed in this project a series of revolutionary ideas, related to the structural, building elements applied and monumental space generated in the service of a good working environment to enjoy workers and users.
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George H. Wyman
304, South Broadway. Los Angeles. USA, 1897
 View of the skylight in the central atrium of the Bradbury Building. Photos: Julius Shulman
One of the most striking scenes of the film Blade Runner is one in which the replicant leader will visit your creator in your own home. This resides on the top floor of a Victorian building that presents decrepit and immersed in darkness threatening. It is the Bradbury Building, one of the most famous historic structures preserved in the center of the Californian city of Los Angeles.
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Raili y Reima Pietilä
Pine Niemi, Mehlati. Helsinki, Finland. 1993
 Central section of the large glass facade facing the coast
This home is a residence that the Finnish state representative has built to house their presidents. Raili and Reima Pietilä develop an exercise there daily unique space in which to express the specific relationship of political representation, using materials, light and characteristic landscape of this northern European country.
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Eugène Freyssinet
Orly Airport
Paris, France. 1923
Orly hangars are among the more concrete structures made impressive early twentieth century. In 1923, the French engineer Freyssinet would project to house and protect dirigibles in the Paris-Orly airport.
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Albert Frey
686 West Palisades Drive
Palm Springs. California, USA, 1964
The house project in the Swiss Desert Albert Frey for himself in Palm Springs, stands out for its simplicity and radicalism without conditions. This architect, to develop his main work in California, is little known beyond the American West. Migrate to that place early 40 twentieth century.
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Konstantin Melnikov
Krivoarbatsky, Arbat. Moscow, Russian Federation .1927-1929.
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Konstantin Melnikov built his experimental house in a neighborhood favorite of the Russian intelligentsia, Arbat. It was conceived as a model for new workers houses and aesthetics differs greatly from traditional Soviet residential architecture around. Today it has become the Melnikov House Museum.
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Philip Johnson
New Canaan.
Connecticut, USA, 1949-2005
 The skewed access to the Glass House. Photos: Ron Blunt
Philip Johnson would be along much of the twentieth century one of the most controversial entertainers of American architecture. Its Glass House New Canaan en (Connecticut) cultural legacy is his wayward, a place that reflects the evolution of his architectural thinking and his great admiration for the ideas of other architects over several decades.
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Jean Prouvé
Agustin Rue Hacquart.
Nancy, Lorena. France. 1954
Jean Prouvé was a revolutionary in his early inventor devoted to metal crafts and always maintained a strong commitment and dedication to the prefabrication and industrialization of collective housing. In this housing project staff overturn many of his ideas on architecture and construction.
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Balkrishna Doshi
Drive-in Road. Ahmedabad, Gujarat. India, 1981
Balkrishna Doshi is an Indian architect representative cultural synthesis between East and West. Having worked with Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn has been explored for decades the cultural traditions of its vast country trying to integrate both worlds in her research on local exercise a form of architecture.
The draft Sangath, to house its own professional office, and built between 1979 and 1981, is the best explanation of this effort of finding a contemporary expression of adequate space for the art of a particular nation. Nearly a personal emblem of the architecture for a specific country.
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Henk Döll y Francine Houben. Mecanoo Architects
Prometheusplein, 1. Christiaan Huygensweg.
Delft, Holland. 1995
Delft Technical University is one of the schools leading European university in the fields of engineering and architecture. Its curious library is a building representative of the latest technological advances in the service of information and knowledge.
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