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John Lautner

A group of four, young architects, graduated from The School of Architecture, The Danish Royal Academy of Art, and UCL Bartlett, is behind the project A Model. The project is a collective remake of Tyra Dokkedahl’s thesis project from 2012. It is supported by the Danish Art Workshops and is selected for the exhibition ‘Art of Many - Right to Space’ in the Danish pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2016.

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OfHouses presents “Pritzkers’ First Houses, part IV”: Kenzo Tange (Pritzker 1987) was the most important Japanese architect in the 20th Century. The only house he designed was his family’s residence in Seijo. Tange elegantly managed to reconcile here the Western modernism with the Japanese tradition and is no wonder that Kazuo Shinohara, the other grandmaster of Japanese architecture, took the Tange House as the main reference for his first project (the House in Kugayama, 1954). (Photos: Ezra Stoller/ESTO.)

OfHouses presents “Pritzkers’ First Houses, part IV”: Gordon Bunshaft (Pritzker 1998) designed only one house during his career. His own retreat in the Hamptons, a concrete structure with travertine walls, was home to Bunshaft’s extraordinary collection of modern art: Moore, Miro and Giacometti in the garden; Picasso, Dubuffet and Leger on the walls. Bunshaft left the house and the collection as a bequest to the MoMA. The museum kept the art, but the property was put on the market. Martha Stewart bought it and commissioned John Pawson to design an extension. The planned swimming pool and guest bedrooms were not completed, but the house and garden were left mutilated being recognition. The blocks of Italian travertine were halved and now adorn Martha’s kitchen… The house was finally demolished in 2005 by Donald Maharam, who bought the lot from Stewart. Asked why he didn’t tried to repair the existing structure, Maharam replied: “We bought a great piece of property. We didn’t buy a house.” (Photos: © Ezra Stoller/ESTO.)

OfHouses presents “Pritzkers’ First Houses, part III”: Sir Norman Foster (Pritzker 1999) established his first architectural practice in 1963, together with Richard Rogers (Pritzker 2007) and their girlfriends at the time Wendy Cheesman and Su Brumwell. The practice, named Team 4, debuted with the ‘Creek Vean’ residence for Su Brumwell’s parents and received immediate critical acclaim. However, the office was dissolved soon after. Foster established ‘Foster and Partners’ and Rogers went later on in partnership with Renzo Piano and established ‘Piano and Rogers’. (Photos: © Foster and Partners, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.)

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