{"id":99114,"date":"2022-09-07T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?post_type=metro_viewpoint&#038;p=99114"},"modified":"2022-09-08T15:58:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T15:58:54","slug":"a-new-book-chronicles-the-turbulent-history-of-architectural-complexity","status":"publish","type":"metro_viewpoint","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/a-new-book-chronicles-the-turbulent-history-of-architectural-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Book Chronicles the Turbulent History of Architectural Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sandow-article-header article-header\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-header\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1233\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p200-201.jpg\" alt=\"Rendering of Zollhoff Media Park by Zaha Hadid \" class=\"wp-image-99115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p200-201.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p200-201-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p200-201-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p200-201-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p200-201-1536x947.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption>Zaha Hadid, Zollhof Media Park, D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany. 1989\u201393. IMAGE \u00a9 ZAHA HADID FOUNDATION<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group article-header_intro none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"article-date\" aria-label=\"Post Date\">September 7, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"size-large wp-block-heading\">A New Book Chronicles the Turbulent History of Architectural Complexity <\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"summary size-regular\">Joseph Giovannini&#8217;s <em>Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde<\/em> is a monumental exploration of non-conformist design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>By: <\/span><a href=\"\/tag\/michael-webb\">Michael Webb<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"social-share\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fviewpoints%2Fa-new-book-chronicles-the-turbulent-history-of-architectural-complexity%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M9 8h-3v4h3v12h5v-12h3.642l.358-4h-4v-1.667c0-.955.192-1.333 1.115-1.333h2.885v-5h-3.808c-3.596 0-5.192 1.583-5.192 4.615v3.385z\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fviewpoints%2Fa-new-book-chronicles-the-turbulent-history-of-architectural-complexity%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M4.98 3.5c0 1.381-1.11 2.5-2.48 2.5s-2.48-1.119-2.48-2.5c0-1.38 1.11-2.5 2.48-2.5s2.48 1.12 2.48 2.5zm.02 4.5h-5v16h5v-16zm7.982 0h-4.968v16h4.969v-8.399c0-4.67 6.029-5.052 6.029 0v8.399h4.988v-10.131c0-7.88-8.922-7.593-11.018-3.714v-2.155z\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fviewpoints%2Fa-new-book-chronicles-the-turbulent-history-of-architectural-complexity%2F&#038;description=A+New+Book+Chronicles+the+Turbulent+History+of+Architectural+Complexity\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"> <path d=\"M12 0c-6.627 0-12 5.372-12 12 0 5.084 3.163 9.426 7.627 11.174-.105-.949-.2-2.405.042-3.441.218-.937 1.407-5.965 1.407-5.965s-.359-.719-.359-1.782c0-1.668.967-2.914 2.171-2.914 1.023 0 1.518.769 1.518 1.69 0 1.029-.655 2.568-.994 3.995-.283 1.194.599 2.169 1.777 2.169 2.133 0 3.772-2.249 3.772-5.495 0-2.873-2.064-4.882-5.012-4.882-3.414 0-5.418 2.561-5.418 5.207 0 1.031.397 2.138.893 2.738.098.119.112.224.083.345l-.333 1.36c-.053.22-.174.267-.402.161-1.499-.698-2.436-2.889-2.436-4.649 0-3.785 2.75-7.262 7.929-7.262 4.163 0 7.398 2.967 7.398 6.931 0 4.136-2.607 7.464-6.227 7.464-1.216 0-2.359-.631-2.75-1.378l-.748 2.853c-.271 1.043-1.002 2.35-1.492 3.146 1.124.347 2.317.535 3.554.535 6.627 0 12-5.373 12-12 0-6.628-5.373-12-12-12z\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"mailto:?body=https%3A%2F%2Fmetropolismag.com%2Fviewpoints%2Fa-new-book-chronicles-the-turbulent-history-of-architectural-complexity%2F&#038;subject=A+New+Book+Chronicles+the+Turbulent+History+of+Architectural+Complexity\" target=\"_blank\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M12 12.713l-11.985-9.713h23.97l-11.985 9.713zm0 2.574l-12-9.725v15.438h24v-15.438l-12 9.725z\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column empty-header-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The marquee-busting title says it all: Joseph Giovannini\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rizzoliusa.com\/book\/9780847858798\/\">Architecture Unbound<\/a> is an ambitious attempt to explore the wilder shores of design and explain how and why maverick architects have dared greatly. It\u2019s also a wide-ranging introduction to artists who laid the groundwork for architectural innovation a century ago; to the philosophers and theorists who mapped new ways of thinking, and to the complexities of chaos theory, parametrics and software programs that have shaped exceptional buildings over the past few decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">An 800-page tome with a thousand-plus endnotes could intimidate all but specialists and dedicated students. But in fact, it\u2019s surprisingly readable and well-argued: mercifully free from the academic jargon and hectoring polemics that flourish in this field.&nbsp;&nbsp;One can count on erudition and lively writing from Giovannini, a critic who has long championed the avant-garde. He has even practiced it on a modest scale, and he dedicates this study to his wife and daughter for their tolerance of a tilted apartment. The book itself is tilted. Pentagram have laid out the text in subtly angled blocks and their cover is a worthy tribute to Alexander Rodchenko, the master of Constructivist typology. There\u2019s an abundance of well-captioned images of celebrated and unfamiliar buildings, along with related artworks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_content is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"838\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitechtureUnbound_cover-838x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitechtureUnbound_cover-838x1024.jpg 838w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitechtureUnbound_cover-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitechtureUnbound_cover-768x939.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Disruption is the overriding theme. The narrative jumps abruptly from one topic or era to another and back. A prologue describes the angular skyscraper that houses the European Central Bank in Frankfurt as a \u201ccontemporary Leaning Tower of Pisa,\u201d and a badge of acceptance for <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?s=coop+himmelb%28l%29au\">Coop Himmelb(l)au<\/a>, who were anarchists in their early years. Then, in quick succession, come quotes from Virginia Woolf, Thom Mayne and Colette; an iconoclastic collage by Stanley Tigerman, radical designs from 1983, and a section on how the arts moved beyond realism from the 1890s on. Fasten your seat belts, it\u2019s going to be a bumpy flight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Giovannini cites Claude Parent\u2014a productive and radical French architect who lapsed into obscurity\u2014as a major influence on contemporary practitioners, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?s=gordon+matta-clark\">Gordon Matta-Clark<\/a> (who sawed buildings apart) and <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?s=lebbeus+woods\">Lebbeus Woods<\/a> (who built almost nothing but drew divinely). He praises <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?s=frank+gehry\">Frank Gehry<\/a> for his intuitive approach to design, modeling by hand and exploring many iterations before allowing his computer-savvy associates to create working documents, and he is equally passionate about <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?s=Zaha+hadid\">Zaha Hadid\u2019s<\/a> visionary drawings and her mastery of sensuously flowing forms. His embrace of <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?s=Peter+eisenman\">Peter Eisenman<\/a> is less convincing. This is the architect whose obsession with underlying geometries produced a house with a rift through the bedroom floor, and the oddly distorted Aronoff Center for Design and Art in Cincinnati. Eisenman admits that the key decisions on Aronoff were made by the computer and observes, \u201cI don\u2019t know if I like the way it looks but the issue is irrelevant.\u201d One wonders if the users are equally unconcerned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"914\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p400.jpg\" alt=\"Model of Steel Cloud installation in Los Angeles. \" class=\"wp-image-99119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p400.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p400-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p400-1024x468.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p400-768x351.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p400-1536x702.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption>Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid + Lise Anne Couture, Steel Cloud, unbuilt proposal for Los Angeles, California, 1988. PHOTO BY EDUARD HUEBER <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Other acclaimed (if familiar\u2014and overwhelmingly white) talents, from <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?s=Daniel+libeskind\">Daniel Libeskind<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?s=enric+miralles\">Enric Miralles<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?s=Diller+Scofidio+%2B+Renfro+\">Diller Scofidio + Renfro<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?s=Farshid+Moussavi\">Farshid Moussavi<\/a>, are each given a few pages, and the book abounds in revelations. There\u2019s a strong emphasis on graphic representation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.ucsb.edu\/novak\/\">Marcos Novak<\/a>, a pioneer of virtual reality at UCSB, exhibited four tableaux at the 2000 Venice Biennale, and their swirling, fractured forms are as thrilling as any NASA image from distant galaxies. Drawings and a model by Moscow schoolchildren show that another generation has inherited the vision of the Constructivists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Giovannini has done an admirable job of selection and compression, but inevitably there are gaps. He extols avant-garde Soviet artists of the 1920s\u2014notably El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich, who strongly influenced Zaha Hadid\u2014but pays scant attention to the architectural visions of Konstantin Melnikov, Alexander Vesnin and their Constructivist contemporaries. The varied manifestations of early Modernism are barely mentioned, and the Bauhaus and its heirs are portrayed as though they were a sort of reactionary \u00c9coles des Beaux Arts. The author subscribes to the widely shared myth that Modernism expired around 1970, thanks to a few provocative theses and the demolition of a bold but mismanaged complex in St Louis (Minoru Yamasaki&#8217;s Pruitt\u2013Igoe). Poorly maintained public housing and developers doing Mies on the cheap did more to diminish its appeal than any treatise. It would be fairer to argue that Modernism (which simply means \u201crecent\u201d as opposed to \u201cpast\u201d) never went away. Several generations of architects challenged the old dogmas and, through their inventiveness, Modernism has been reborn, realizing its expressive potential in a diversity of forms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">MoMA and Philip Johnson are rightly castigated here for selecting a single aspect of the new architecture, stripping it of its social goals, and anointing it as the International Style in a 1932 exhibition. (They are also pilloried for another exercise in simplification, the Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition of 1998). Giovannini acknowledges that theorists can be \u201cdoctrinaire and insufferably arcane ..acting like architecture\u2019s priest class,\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;repeating the errors of dogmatic pioneers like Le Corbusier, who tried to boil design down to Five Points\u2014before going on to ignore them in Ronchamp and Chandigarh. But it\u2019s clear that he\u2019s seduced by the absence of rules\u2014bordering on anarchy\u2014that has generated a chaos of form for form\u2019s sake in the boom cities of China, the Gulf, and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p209_top-1024x653.jpg\" alt=\"Facade of Frank Gehry's Vitra Design Museum \" class=\"wp-image-99116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p209_top-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p209_top-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p209_top-768x490.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Frank Gehry, Gehry Partners, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, 1989. PHOTO COURTESY GEHRY PARTNERS, LLP <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p466_top-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p466_top-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p466_top-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p466_top-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>G\u00fcnther Domenig, Steinhaus, Steindorf, Austria, 1982-2008. PHOTO \u00a9 GERALD ZUGMANN  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">For better and worse, the US has resisted the boldest innovations. It took 14 years to fund and construct Gehry\u2019s Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the architect was constantly denigrated right up to its completion. But that conservativism (or timidity) has blocked many questionable proposals.&nbsp;Before the suits settled on a mundane redevelopment for the 9\/11 site, radicals were invited to offer their ideas. United Architects (an ad hoc team) proposed a writhing complex of five linked towers in place of the World Trade Center. Giovannini wishes it had been realized, but a montage shows it looming over the skyline of lower Manhattan as intrusively as the phallic shafts that now disfigure Midtown.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The underlying message of the book is that, to keep up with the other arts, architecture must mirror the uncertainties revealed by scientists and philosophers. But why? It\u2019s true we live in turbulent times, at the mercy of climate change, social inequities, and demagogues and their deluded acolytes, but enlightened architects responded to the equally troubling era of Hitler, Stalin and the Great Depression with calm, rational buildings, and arguably we need more of those now. It\u2019s easy to dismiss functionality as boring, but too many of the buildings cited here are out of scale with context, their program, and the humans who pass through.&nbsp;Cities can accommodate only a few transgressive icons before they begin to look like a sci-fi movie. Contemporary architects have more to offer than the traditional virtues of firmness, commodity and delight, but those principles are still relevant. And there\u2019s a curious sense of detachment from reality in these pages. For instance, I found barely a mention of architects\u2019 obligation to conserve energy and resources, create net-zero buildings, and make our cities more livable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-sandow-image-gallery\"><div class=\"splide\" data-splide=\"{&quot;fixedHeight&quot;: &quot;500px&quot;, &quot;autoWidth&quot;: true, &quot;gap&quot;: &quot;1px&quot;, &quot;pagination&quot;: false}\"><div class=\"splide__arrows\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"splide__arrow splide__arrow--prev\">Prev<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"splide__arrow splide__arrow--next\">Next<\/button><\/div><div class=\"splide__track\"><ul class=\"splide__list\"><li class=\"splide__slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1556\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p307_bottom.jpg\" alt=\"Deconstructivist bathroom by Manfred Wolf-Plottegg\" data-id=\"99118\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p307_bottom.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-99118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p307_bottom.jpg 1556w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p307_bottom-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p307_bottom-797x1024.jpg 797w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p307_bottom-768x987.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p307_bottom-1195x1536.jpg 1195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1556px) 100vw, 1556px\" \/><figcaption class=\"imagegallery-item__caption\">Manfred Wolff-Plottegg, Bathroom &#8220;for K. Schwitters,&#8221; Graz, Austria, 1983. PHOTO BY MANFRED WOLFF-PLOTTEGG (Advance slider to view more images.) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"splide__slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1622\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p425.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"99121\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p425.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-99121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p425.jpg 1622w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p425-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p425-830x1024.jpg 830w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p425-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p425-1246x1536.jpg 1246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\" \/><figcaption class=\"imagegallery-item__caption\">Co-Op Himmelb(l)au, Studio Baumann, Vienna, Austria, 1984-1985. PHOTO BY GERALD ZUGMAN <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"splide__slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1334\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p721_bottom.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"99127\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p721_bottom.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-99127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p721_bottom.jpg 1334w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p721_bottom-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p721_bottom-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p721_bottom-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p721_bottom-1025x1536.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\" \/><figcaption class=\"imagegallery-item__caption\">Preston Scott Cohen, Lightfall, Herta and Paul Amir Building, Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2010. PHOTO BY PRESTON SCOTT COHEN, INC. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"splide__slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p753.jpg\" alt=\"Rendering of Morphosis' Share Tower in Paris. \" data-id=\"99128\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p753.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-99128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p753.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p753-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p753-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p753-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p753-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\" \/><figcaption class=\"imagegallery-item__caption\">Morphosis Architects,  PHAS Tower\/La Phare (The Lighthouse), La D\u00e9fense, Paris, France, 2007. IMAGE \u00a9 MICHAEL POWERS, COURTESY MORPHOSIS ARCHITECTS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"splide__slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1233\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p258-259.jpg\" alt=\"View of Wexner Center for the Visual Arts\" data-id=\"99117\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p258-259.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-99117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p258-259.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p258-259-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p258-259-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p258-259-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p258-259-1536x947.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"imagegallery-item__caption\">Eisenman Architects, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts and Fine Arts Library, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1983-1989.                    \u00a9 EISENMAN ARCHITECTS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"splide__slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p419.jpg\" alt=\"View of Louvre Islamic Art galleries extension. \" data-id=\"99120\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p419.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-99120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p419.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p419-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p419-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p419-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ArchitectureUnbound_p419-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"imagegallery-item__caption\">Zaha&nbsp;Hadid&nbsp;Architects, Paris 2e: Islamic Art Extension to Louvre, Paris, France, 2005. 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