Brutalist and more.

[Alonzo-ny]

I need help getting some good quality images of these buildings if you guys know of a good resource or link.

Harvard Graduate Center - Gropius
Boston City Hall - kallman mckinnell and knowles
Goshen County Government Center - paul rudolph
The altes Museum - schinkel
Stiles and Morse Colleges - saarinen
Lerner Hall - Tschumi
Harvard Square
MIT - Holl
Lehman Library - o'connor and kilham
Lenin Institute - Leonidov

[Jasonik]

I could go shoot the Boston ones for you.

What views are you interested in of Harvard square?

What do you mean "good quality?" I have 8.1 megapixels.

[Alonzo-ny]

That would be amazing! In Harvard square, it is a recently completed building which was a substitute for a radical building. Its is for someones presentation, in the note i have it says it caused alot of controversy and he is looking for the rejected competition entry also? Maybe by Holein?

[Jasonik]

Yeah, I know the one.

The original:
http://www.harvardmagazine.com/lib/01so/images/4rendering.jpg (http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/090110.html)
For better images you're probably best contacting Harvard or the architect (http://www.hollein.com/index1.php?lang=en&l1ID=7).

The banal substitution:
http://www.harvardmagazine.com/lib/03so/images/brev-097_Image_0001.jpg
Rendering courtesy of Leers Weinzapfel Associates
90 Mount Auburn Street

Designed by architects Leers Weinzapfel Associates, this geothermally heated and cooled building will house departments of the Harvard University Library, including the Weissman Preservation Center on the fourth floor, and retail space on the first. The new structure will replace two small buildings that housed retail operations. An earlier, avant-garde design for the site by prize-winning architect Hans Hollein met its end in a review by the Cambridge Historical Commission, with whom Harvard worked closely on the current design.

Here (http://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/09/bricks-politics.html) is a great article about Harvard's architectural aspirations and community blowback. (Harvard questions empowerment of collectivist oversight? hehe ;) )

Here (http://greencampus.harvard.edu/gcbs/nc/documents/90MountAuburnCaseStudy.pdf) is an excellent pdf case study of the building's eminently laudable greeness.

I'll bike around for you this weekend.

Do you want context shots or just the building?
Typical views from roads/sidewalks or interesting/hidden aspects?
Any interior views?

This is starting to sound like a fun mission. :)

[Alonzo-ny]

Lets get a good mix of all of the above if possible! I really appreciate it, your on a mission for PBDW!

[czsz]

As someone who has spent considerable time in Lerner Hall, and now whiles away the same hours in the Harvard Graduate Center, do you mind me asking what this project is for? The Altes Museum seems a particularly odd fit.

[Alonzo-ny]

Its not for a building project, the particlar partner im researching for will be using these images in a PP presentation for a class he teaches.

[Alonzo-ny]

did you get a chance to take those pictures?

[brianac]

did you get a chance to take those pictures?

Do you mean Alfred Lerner Hall Columbia?

[Jasonik]

Yes, I'll post links in a bit.

[Alonzo-ny]

Do you mean Alfred Lerner Hall Columbia?

Yes Thanks!!


Yes, I'll post links in a bit.

Sweet!!

[TREPYE]

I must say Chi-town's Marina City buildings (on left) are Brutalism done right.

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1025/dsc0077yq4.jpg

[pharuehad]

God !!!!!!

[Alonzo-ny]

Looking for more images that Im finding it hard to retrieve:

Richard Meier - Twin Parks in the Bronx

Josep Lluís Sert - on Roosevelt Island.

Any help is appreciated!

[ablarc]

Josep Lluís Sert - on Roosevelt Island.
You can take pictures of these yourself, but they don't come across as they did when they were crisp and clean and new and colorful. Yes, colorful: there were bright primary-colored panels and broad guardrails that made the whole ensemble cheerful. All that's gone now; that seems Sert's fate, it also happened to him at Peabody Terrace in Cambridge, which, deprived of color, now seems drab.

To see how Sert's buildings should look, find them on the covers of Architectural Record when they came out.

[Gregory Tenenbaum]

Good examples there.

Its not NY, but the UI campus in Chicago, featured in vertical down shots in the beginning of the film Candyman, are a great example of brutalism. Walter Netsch was the architect.

I quite like the style myself.

[stache]

Why does this not surprise me? ;)

[Radiohead]

JLS on Roosevelt

(from Flickr-illa faubert)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1321/558909316_0d98ff7cc9_o.jpg

From JJFeh
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/241509643_bf17b870ac_b.jpg

[stache]

This village would make a great location for a movie, I'm always surprised people don't use it for that.