Types of California Architecture
____________ is an American design movement in interior, product, graphic design, architecture, and urban development that was popular from roughly 1945 to 1969, during the United States's post–World War II period. 1
Mid-century modern
______ is a New York-based designer. She is dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She is the co-founder of the New York City architecture firm WORKac with her husband, Dan Wood. 6
Amale Andraos
The 2020 awards goes to two women. Name their firm? 11
Grafton Architects
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life." 16
Frank Lloyd Wright
________________ is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. 2
American Craftsman
________(born 1952) is an Irish architect and academic. She founded Grafton Architects with _________ in 1978.Grafton rose to prominence in the early 2010s, specializing in stark, weighty but spacious buildings for higher education. ______ has taught architecture at University College Dublin since 1976 and at several other universities. 7
Shelley McNamara & Yvonne Farrell
______born 23 July 1931) is a Japanese architect, urban designer, and theorist from Ōita. He was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. 12
Arata Isozaki
"Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance." 17
Rem Koolhaas
_______ a domestic architectural style originating in the United States. The ranch-style house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout. 3
Ranch-style house
_________is the Director and founding partner of __________ – PAULA VELASCO ARQUITECTURA. Architect, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 1990. Since 1995 she has developed her professional practice independently in Santiago, where she has carried out design projects at different scales and programs, from single-family homes (most notably the House in Bahia Azul), to collective housing, educational and industrial equipment, and urban design such as the renovation of public spaces in Cerro Toro. 8
Cecilia Puga
_________(born 26 August 1927) is an Indian architect. He is considered to be an important figure of Indian architecture and noted for his contributions to the evolution of architectural discourse in India. Having worked under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, he is a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India. In 2018, he became the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize . 13
B. V. Doshi
"Architecture is a learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light." 18
Le Corbusier
_______is a type of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, jets, the Space Age, and the Atomic Age. It originated in Southern California with the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s, and was popular nationwide from roughly 1945 to the early 1970s. 4
Googie architecture
______ (妹島 和世, born 29 October 1956) is a Japanese architect. She is known for designs with clean modernist elements such as shiny surfaces, squares and cubes. Along with and Ryue Nishizawa, she has worked on several projects in Germany, Switzerland, France, England, the Netherlands, United States, and Spain. Many of their designs like the Rolex Learning Center at EPFL the New Museum in the Bowery District in New York City as well as the Glass Pavilion for the Toledo Museum of Art involve large windows and public open space to interact with the world around the architecture. In 2010, Sejima was the second woman to receive the Pritzker Prize, which was awarded jointly with Nishizawa.9
Kazuyo Sejima
_____________(born 22 June 1967) is a Chilean architect and executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016,[1] and also, he was the director and curator of the Architecture Section of the 2016 Venice Biennale. 14
Alejandro Aravena
"As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown." 19
Normon Foster
A storybook house refers to an architectural style popularized in the 1920s in England and the United States. 5
Storybook house
________(born 1949, Ithaca, New York) received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and her M. Arch. from UCLA. She has worked with Williams since 1977 and they have been in partnership since 1986. ______ is currently President of the Architectural League of New York and Director of the Public Art Fund. She has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Academy, the American Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. _______ was one of the recipients of the Visionary Woman Awards presented by Moore College of Art and Design in 2009. 10
Billie Tsien
_____________(3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading exponents of the postmodern movement. He was the first Italian to receive the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1990. 15
Aldo Rossi
" I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me." 20
Maya Lin