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Peter Eisenman
Vienna, Austria 2004

extraordinary installation
"Eisenman has taken over a huge 19th-century exhibition hall, 30 feet high, and made it disappear, installing a low, white, flat, false ceiling interrupted by a grid of 30 white, room-size boxes, some open, some closed ..." (Deyan Sudjic, obs_04.12.19)

Holocaust Memorial [-]

Architectural Biennial Beijing 2004 (ABB 2004)

Made in Germany: Architecture & Ecology
Barcelona, July 6, 2004
will travel to 14 other cities before it closes, in April 2006.

Liquid Stone : New Architecture in Concrete
Washington DC

"29 architectural projects that use concrete -- a material believed to have been first used more than 2,000 years ago -- in what the museum says are 'exciting' ways"

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Content, Neue National Galerie, Berlin
until Jan 18, 2004

"Mies in Berlin," The Museum of Modern Art, New York -- curators: Terence Riley, Barry Bergdoll
11 W. 53rd St. (212) 708-9750. Through Sept. 11, 2001

Glass tower on Friedrichstrasse, Berlin
National Gallery, Berlin

"Mies in America," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York -- curator: Phyllis Lambert
945 Madison Ave. (212) 570-3633. Through Sept. 23, 2001

Seagram Building on Park between 52nd and 53rd, New York
Farnsworth House
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Zaha Hadid Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
through Sep 10, 2000

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Yale Fall 2004 Lectures & Symposia

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Brutalist, 1960's architecture, Post-War buildings
preservation vs. demolition
or, altered beyond recognition

Courthouse, West Palm Beach 1969 -- Donald Edge

Orange County Government Center, Goshen New York 1963 -- Paul Rudolph

Bass House, Fort Worth 1970 -- Paul Rudolph
for Anne Bass

historic districts [-]
60's new materials [-]
landmark status [-]

Glenn Murcutt / Harry Seidler vs. Planners / Sydney Local Councils

Murcutt / Seidler vs. Federation Architecture

Kellyville, Sydney

Albion Park, Wollongong

Planners [-]

globalization, architecture profession etc.
Berlin
public art
treatise
voyeurism
rich powerful intelligent
artisans' spit
master builders' defense

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Rem Koolhaas/OMA-AMO. "Content," (Cologne. Taschen, May 2004)
produced with Simon Brown, Jon Link, Brendan McGetrick

revolt

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Daley Center, formerly Chicago Civic Center, Washington, Randolph, Dearborn and Clark streets, Chicago 1965 -- CF Murphy Associates, Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Loebl Schlossmann Bennett & Dart
650-foot tower

other postwar entries of Chicago's 140 landmark buildings

860-880 N Lake Shore Drive

Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall -- Mies van der Rohe

3360 S State

Inland Steel Building

30 W Monroe

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Peter Eisenman Vienna, Austria 2004 extraordinary installation "Eisenman has taken over a huge 19th-century exhibition hall, 30 feet high, and made it disappear, installing a low, white, flat, false ceiling interrupted by a grid of 30 white, room-size boxes, some open, some closed ..." (Deyan Sudjic, obs_04.12.19)	Holocaust Memorial [-]
Architectural Biennial Beijing 2004 (ABB 2004) Made in Germany: Architecture & Ecology Barcelona, July 6, 2004 will travel to 14 other cities before it closes, in April 2006. Liquid Stone : New Architecture in Concrete Washington DC "29 architectural projects that use concrete -- a material believed to have been first used more than 2,000 years ago -- in what the museum says are 'exciting' ways"	[-]
Content, Neue National Galerie, Berlin until Jan 18, 2004 "Mies in Berlin," The Museum of Modern Art, New York -- curators: Terence Riley, Barry Bergdoll 11 W. 53rd St. (212) 708-9750. Through Sept. 11, 2001 Glass tower on Friedrichstrasse, Berlin National Gallery, Berlin "Mies in America," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York -- curator: Phyllis Lambert 945 Madison Ave. (212) 570-3633. Through Sept. 23, 2001 Seagram Building on Park between 52nd and 53rd, New York Farnsworth House Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago Zaha Hadid Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London through Sep 10, 2000	***

Brutalist, 1960's architecture, Post-War buildings preservation vs. demolition or, altered beyond recognition Courthouse, West Palm Beach 1969 -- Donald Edge Orange County Government Center, Goshen New York 1963 -- Paul Rudolph Bass House, Fort Worth 1970 -- Paul Rudolph for Anne Bass	historic districts [-] 60's new materials [-] landmark status [-]
Glenn Murcutt / Harry Seidler vs. Planners / Sydney Local Councils Murcutt / Seidler vs. Federation Architecture Kellyville, Sydney Albion Park, Wollongong	Planners [-]
globalization, architecture profession etc. Berlin public art treatise voyeurism rich powerful intelligent artisans' spit master builders' defense	***

Rem Koolhaas/OMA-AMO. "Content," (Cologne. Taschen, May 2004) produced with Simon Brown, Jon Link, Brendan McGetrick	revolt
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