Does fatality follow function? For Halloween, Archinect Senior Editor Bryan Boyer brings us the morbid (and haunted) tale of architects' historic deaths. death does come, of this we are sure ...
Bryan/Heather, thank you for this! Perfect for Halloween! Eileen Gray died - on Halloween 1976 - of a "tumble"? I wonder what happened?
Oh my god and the tombstone pictures!!! Love Plecnik's, love Soane's. Love this whole concept!
reminds me of the speaks lectures where he'd always add an aside as to how some theorist/architect/celebrity died
wait, where are the pictures?
Mouse over the skulls and text appears below to link to the pics.
yeah. okay. you have found why they died, but, do you know which project they were thinking of when they ....?
love the Miralles one
I didn't see Frank Gehry on there. Oh... wait..
What about Oscar Niemeyer, who is basically dead walking at 101? The dude just got married again at 98...these crazy Brazilians!
What's crazy living is they say he still dances the samba
miralles - 44 saarinen - 50 mendelsohn - 35 i can't imagine what they would have accomplished if they lived to 70...
What about Terragni - 38? Some pretty amazing work by that age...
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Bryan/Heather, thank you for this! Perfect for Halloween!
Eileen Gray died - on Halloween 1976 - of a "tumble"? I wonder what happened?
Oh my god and the tombstone pictures!!! Love Plecnik's, love Soane's. Love this whole concept!
reminds me of the speaks lectures where he'd always add an aside as to how some theorist/architect/celebrity died
wait, where are the pictures?
Mouse over the skulls and text appears below to link to the pics.
yeah. okay. you have found why they died, but, do you know which project they were thinking of when they ....?
love the Miralles one
I didn't see Frank Gehry on there. Oh... wait..
What about Oscar Niemeyer, who is basically dead walking at 101? The dude just got married again at 98...these crazy Brazilians!
What's crazy living is they say he still dances the samba
miralles - 44
saarinen - 50
mendelsohn - 35
i can't imagine what they would have accomplished if they lived to 70...
What about Terragni - 38? Some pretty amazing work by that age...
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