The Artform of Architecture

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The Artform and Architecture The Architecture of the 1960s

John Lobell, M. Arch., Professor at Pratt Institute

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building dominated architecture, and Mies was a lion standing in the path of all other architects. How did other architects react? We will look at Saarinen's TWA Flight Center building at JFK, Archigram's Plug-In City, Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti, Bucky Fuller's domes and Ant Farm's inflateds, among others, and at how they brought us today's buildings by Frank Gehry, Santiago Calatrava and Zaha Hadid, as well as the remarkable buildings now being built in Dubai and China.

This presentation is part of John Lobell's The Artform of Architecture series.

John Lobell

John Lobell

A professor at Pratt Institute, John Lobell studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. His interests include architecture, cultural theory, consciousness, Buddhism and the impact of technology on culture. Lobell lectures widely and is the author of several books, including Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn. For more information about John Lobell, visit CreativityDiscourse.com and JohnLobell.com.