The 'only' two Guggenheims, Tate Modern, Jewish museum, maybe St Mary's Axe, or at least something from Foster, Empire State, Louvre, Pompidou, Graz Kunsthaus
hmmm, interesting question, I actually find it quite hard to come up with likely contenders...
1. Oak Alley Plantation (Gilbert Joseph Pile)
2. University of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson)
3. The Rookery (Daniel Burnham and John Root)
4. Gamble House (Charles & Henry Greene)
5. Robie House (Frank Lloyd Wright)
6. First Church of Christ Scientist (Bernard Maybeck)
7. Schindler House (Rudolph Schindler)
8. Lovell Health House (Richard Neutra)
9. Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (George Howe & William Lescaze)
10. Gropius House (Walter Gropius)
11. Eames House (Charles & Ray Eames)
12. Fallingwater (Frank Lloyd Wright)
13. Farnsworth House (Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe)
14. Lever House (SOM)
15. Eden Roc Hotel (Morris Lapidus)
16. Case Study House #22 (Pierre Koenig)
17. TWA Terminal (Eero Saarinen)
18. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Le Corbusier)
19. Salk Institute (Louis Kahn)
20. Whitney Museum of American Art (Marcel Breuer)
21. Douglas House (Richard Meier)
22. Thorncrown Chapel (Fay Jones)
23. Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (Tadao Ando)
24. Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank Gehry)
25. Seattle Public Library (Rem Koolhaas & Joshua Ramus)
i havent heard of any of these buildings. where is trump tower??? what about las vegas and stonehenge. who is richard neutral? i like disneys magic castle.
hmmm, the list is all American. Some notable omissions (even from an American list): Guggenheim NY, IIT Campus, Pei's National Gallery, Phoenix Central Library, and others I'm sure.
(kinda funny too that the Seattle Library is listed as Koolhaas/Ramus instead of OMA...)
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Yeah, I was actually pretty impressed with their selection. They also dropped references to some other works by the architects (talked about Dulles in the blurb on TWA terminal), which boosted the list to 30 or so. My only real beef was with the Whitney, but I guess I can see their point.
Anyway, I thought that it was interesting to see a pop connection between architecture and 'style.' This is the sort of thing that actually promotes our profession's value.
No Sullivan either or HH Richardson... very lacking in the 19th century era. No Gaudi? Some of the more recent things... I don't think they should have those. If they do, then they need stuff by Morphosis, Calatrava, etc. And what about anything Italian, pre-19th century? Classical? Tsk. No sense of history. Would've liked Barcelona Pavilion... maybe Johnson, glass house? Hm...
But I guess it IS GQ... better than anything Arch Digest would've done.
Is it just me or are there a lot of houses on that list? I'm also surprised at a list that really doesn't address the modern skyscraper, something that is more American than GQ itself. Sullivan deserves that list. Why pick Mies' Farnsworth house over the Seagram building? I can see Ghery getting a building but think the Seattle Library is a bit new to make the top 25 list. What about landscape design...the mall in Washington or Central Park?
agree with the no Sullivan/Richardson comments --
the Wainwright Building should be on there --
(still pretty awesome even today)
and Seagram instead of Lever House for sure.
Do you think this list might perhaps push GQ's circulation up to perhaps 100,000?? Normally I'd never read such a waste of paper magazine but now I'm intrigued as to why they picked what they did.
At the airport newsstand this Friday it will be hard to pass up on the Maxim type magazine with their sultry looking exotic babes adorned within their glossy pages - this might just be something that would prompt me to dust off the archaic GQ magazine.
As to the missing skyscrapers thing - i have it on good authority they were trying to avoid the whole phallus representational esotera. GQ is very concerned about protecting their new movement into the architectural critique genre and did not want to make the same mistake that the Chicago Times did at the turn of the century with all that “erecting†language.
jam arch...
the list is the top 25 buildings IN AMERICA...
if you go to the website i think it mentions that in the title..
i think a lot of people failed to see that.
would've liked to have seen the dorm at MIT by Aalto
on that list as well...
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GQ 25 buildings list
just curious if anyone saw the '25 buildings every man should know' (or something like that) section in the March GQ.
They did a pretty good job of picking buildings, but I thought its very existence was sort of interesting.
That is strange, I bet one of their writers/editors studied architecture for a year and gave it up, but wishes he/she hadn't
Could you list the buildings? Or post a link?
I'd be interested in seeing people's guesses as to what the 25 or perhaps top 10 buildings one should know are.
The 'only' two Guggenheims, Tate Modern, Jewish museum, maybe St Mary's Axe, or at least something from Foster, Empire State, Louvre, Pompidou, Graz Kunsthaus
hmmm, interesting question, I actually find it quite hard to come up with likely contenders...
articles like this are so ridiculous. 25(your product/object/person)that every man should know.
true, but they're kind of fun too, sometimes... celebrity worship is bollox however
architects reading gq...great!!! hahahaha
1. Oak Alley Plantation (Gilbert Joseph Pile)
2. University of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson)
3. The Rookery (Daniel Burnham and John Root)
4. Gamble House (Charles & Henry Greene)
5. Robie House (Frank Lloyd Wright)
6. First Church of Christ Scientist (Bernard Maybeck)
7. Schindler House (Rudolph Schindler)
8. Lovell Health House (Richard Neutra)
9. Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (George Howe & William Lescaze)
10. Gropius House (Walter Gropius)
11. Eames House (Charles & Ray Eames)
12. Fallingwater (Frank Lloyd Wright)
13. Farnsworth House (Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe)
14. Lever House (SOM)
15. Eden Roc Hotel (Morris Lapidus)
16. Case Study House #22 (Pierre Koenig)
17. TWA Terminal (Eero Saarinen)
18. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Le Corbusier)
19. Salk Institute (Louis Kahn)
20. Whitney Museum of American Art (Marcel Breuer)
21. Douglas House (Richard Meier)
22. Thorncrown Chapel (Fay Jones)
23. Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (Tadao Ando)
24. Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank Gehry)
25. Seattle Public Library (Rem Koolhaas & Joshua Ramus)
is that your list or gq's? chico?
gq's via link
yes but what are the 25 things a guy must know to please his lady???
i think thats a pretty good list for GQ... i wonder what cosmo would want the ladies to know?
i havent heard of any of these buildings. where is trump tower??? what about las vegas and stonehenge. who is richard neutral? i like disneys magic castle.
madianito...
i have to say that (except the men's fashion, hair section bullshit) some articles are pretty well written...
Not a bad list, missed out s alot of modern stuff though...
hmmm, the list is all American. Some notable omissions (even from an American list): Guggenheim NY, IIT Campus, Pei's National Gallery, Phoenix Central Library, and others I'm sure.
(kinda funny too that the Seattle Library is listed as Koolhaas/Ramus instead of OMA...)
Yeah, I was actually pretty impressed with their selection. They also dropped references to some other works by the architects (talked about Dulles in the blurb on TWA terminal), which boosted the list to 30 or so. My only real beef was with the Whitney, but I guess I can see their point.
Anyway, I thought that it was interesting to see a pop connection between architecture and 'style.' This is the sort of thing that actually promotes our profession's value.
No Sullivan either or HH Richardson... very lacking in the 19th century era. No Gaudi? Some of the more recent things... I don't think they should have those. If they do, then they need stuff by Morphosis, Calatrava, etc. And what about anything Italian, pre-19th century? Classical? Tsk. No sense of history. Would've liked Barcelona Pavilion... maybe Johnson, glass house? Hm...
But I guess it IS GQ... better than anything Arch Digest would've done.
Is it just me or are there a lot of houses on that list? I'm also surprised at a list that really doesn't address the modern skyscraper, something that is more American than GQ itself. Sullivan deserves that list. Why pick Mies' Farnsworth house over the Seagram building? I can see Ghery getting a building but think the Seattle Library is a bit new to make the top 25 list. What about landscape design...the mall in Washington or Central Park?
vado retro,
but you have to admit, if GQ published a "25 contortionist maneuvers every man should know in the bedroom," that would be a list worth reading.
i think it is sort of refreshing to see such a list in a men's magazine that is loaded with homes, and not riddled with skyscrapers.
agree with the no Sullivan/Richardson comments --
the Wainwright Building should be on there --
(still pretty awesome even today)
and Seagram instead of Lever House for sure.
thazz in next months issue manteno...stay tuned
Do you think this list might perhaps push GQ's circulation up to perhaps 100,000?? Normally I'd never read such a waste of paper magazine but now I'm intrigued as to why they picked what they did.
At the airport newsstand this Friday it will be hard to pass up on the Maxim type magazine with their sultry looking exotic babes adorned within their glossy pages - this might just be something that would prompt me to dust off the archaic GQ magazine.
As to the missing skyscrapers thing - i have it on good authority they were trying to avoid the whole phallus representational esotera. GQ is very concerned about protecting their new movement into the architectural critique genre and did not want to make the same mistake that the Chicago Times did at the turn of the century with all that “erecting†language.
u can go online to gq and take their architecture101 survey course- buildings men must know to impress their dates.
I try and avoid talking about buildings on dates. I know I'll end up just rambling on and coming across as the total architecture geek that I am.
sounds like a very US slanted list - and pro-modern movement
was this the American GQ?
jam arch...
the list is the top 25 buildings IN AMERICA...
if you go to the website i think it mentions that in the title..
i think a lot of people failed to see that.
would've liked to have seen the dorm at MIT by Aalto
on that list as well...
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