#archive of modern architecture

[dashalbrundezimmer]

vijzelstraat // amsterdam gouden bocht

de bazel / amsterdam city archives

architect: karel de bazel

completion: 1926

this monumental example of brick expressionism now houses the amsterdam city archives and is open to the public.

dieses monumentale beispiel des backsteinexpressionismus beherbergt heute das städtische archiv amsterdams und ist auch für besucher zugänglich.

[starzec]

The Polish Sejm and Senate Complex (both chambers of the Parliament) – architectural and design documentation, 2017

[arc-hus]

House for Architectural Heritage in Muharraq, Bahrain - Leopold Banchini

[otomakaws]

Ye and Alexis

[tilbageidanmark]

The old Kugekhaus (Sphere building) in Dresden. It was built in 1928, and demolished by the Nazis in 1938, for being "Un-German".

[serenagaia]

Architecture and interior design

[archives-moodboard]

Sofia, Bulgaria by Elen Kolev (2023)

[f0restpunk]

[studioarcu]

A casa é caracterizada por suas linhas limpas e design minimalista, com uma estrutura de madeira exposta que não apenas serve como um elemento estético marcante, mas também destaca a integração harmoniosa da construção com o ambiente natural circundante. O amplo uso de vidro permite a entrada abundante de luz natural, promovendo uma conexão fluida entre os espaços internos e externos.

[ditedesign]

The 21st Century via the Vogue Italia archive, 2000

Viaggio nel colore attraverso - Moda, architettura, design, tecnologia.

[angusdomo]

“Equilibrium” bookshelf by Malagana design

[metropolitanmodernist]

Paradiset, the main restaurant / huvudrestaurangen at the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition. Architect: Erik Gunnar Asplund. Photographer: Gustav W:son Cronquist.

Image: ArkDes Collections // SU30: in colour

[starzec]

Rooftop, 2018

Location scouting. Brief: Client wants Gotham City in Warsaw. It was -15c.

[spacelazarwolf]

in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:

arts, fashion, and lifestyle:

jeans - levi strauss

modern bras - ida rosenthal

sewing machines - isaac merritt singer

modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers

operetta - jacques offenbach

comic books - stan lee

graphic novels - will eisner

teddy bears - morris and rose michtom

influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen

artists - mark rothko

actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand

comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld

authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley

culture:

esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof

feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg

queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler

international women's day - clara zetkin

principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer

"the new colossus" - emma lazarus

universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin

holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel

workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman

public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald

racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner

political theory - hannah arendt

disability rights - judith heumann

black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza

#metoo movement - jodi kantor

institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld

technology:

word processing computers - evelyn berezin

facebook - mark zuckerberg

console video game system - ralph henry baer

cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper

3d - leonard lipton

telephone - philipp reis

fax machines - arthur korn

microphone - emile berliner

gramophone - emile berliner

television - boris rosing

barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver

secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr

three laws of robotics - isaac asimov

cybernetics - norbert wiener

helicopters - emile berliner

BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny

google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page

VCR - jerome lemelson

fax machine - jerome lemelson

telegraph - samuel finley breese morse

morse code - samuel finley breese morse

bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus

electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi

nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover

the internet - paul baran

icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir

color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes

world's first computer - herman goldstine

modern computer architecture - john von neumann

bittorrent - bram cohen

voip internet telephony - alon cohen

data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv

nemeth code - abraham nemeth

holography - dennis gabor

laser - theodor maiman

instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn

first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus

electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg

drip irrigation - simcha blass

ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro

photo booth - anatol marco josepho

medicine:

pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch

defibrillators - bernard lown

anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin

polio vaccine - jonas salk

test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman

test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal

penicillin - ernst boris chain

pregnancy test - barnhard zondek

antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion

discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter

chemotherapy - paul ehrlich

discovery of prions - stanley prusiner

psychoanalysis - sigmund freud

rubber condoms - julius fromm

birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus

asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein

blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner

acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion

vitamins - caismir funk

technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow

antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg

a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov

homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann

aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun

science:

theory of relativity - albert einstein

theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell

quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz

quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein

microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn

neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria

counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter

genetic engineering - paul berg

discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre

discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias

discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter

discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose

discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez

modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann

stainless steel - hans goldschmidt

gas powered vehicles

interferometer - albert abraham michelson

discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe

proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman

biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof

electron-positron collider - bruno touschek

[ladnkilt]

IN CLASSICAL AND MODERN ART... RECTUS ABDOMINIS (Latin: Six Pack) THE DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN STEREOTYPICAL SYMBOL OF THE MASCULINE SOUL!

Trelis, Javier, "Semper - Winter Sun."

The Male Form...  In Photography, Art, Architecture, Decor, Style, And Culture Which Moves Beyond Mere Appearance To Reveal The... SOUL.

By LadNKilt: Earl Of Darlow, Ben Official Residence: County Antrim Northern Ireland; Main Residence: London U.K.; Second Residence: Kansas City Missouri U.S.A. LadNKilt Archive | Message Me | Submit | LadNKiltLife (Biography)

[germanpostwarmodern]

In recent years two of Berlin’s (and actually Germany’s) most significant brutalist buildings sparked quite an outcry among architects, preservationists and lovers of Brutalism: the so-called Mäusebunker designed by Gerd & Magdalena Hänska as well as the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology by Fehling + Gogel were threatened with demolition. Fortunately, a big discussion ensued and concluded with the heritage protection of both buildings. But until now only for the Institute building a viable continued use has been determined whereas the Mäusebunker still lies dormant despite the numerous concepts on the table. They range from b+’s plan to turn the Mäusebunker into a hub for studios and workshops to FORWARD’s proposal of turning it into a modern day ark. The latter was developed by Ludwig Heimbach, the editor of „Mäusebunker & Hygieneinstitut - Eine Berliner Versuchsanordnung“, recently published by Jovis Verlag, a volume that takes a deep dive into the history, present and potential future of the two emblematic buildings. The book is the conclusion Heimbach’s long-term advocacy of the buildings’ preservation and the comprehensive archival research that accompanied it. Together with different authors Heimbach recounts the building history of Mäusebunker and Hygieneinstitut, highlights their architectural uniqueness and also involves the heated debate surrounding their preservation or demolition, with the latter being especially hard-fought in the Mäusebunker’s case. As the book recounts, the Mäusebunker due to its function as „Central Animal Laboratories of the Free University Berlin“ from its very opening on had a hard time being accepted: for animal-rights activists it naturally was a fed flag and for the average Berliner an eyesore. But its monolithic, warship-like appearance shouldn’t deflect from the wealth of details the building contains and which the plans included in the book reveal. They come to life in Kay Fingerle’s essay and photographs that take a look behind the facades of both buildings and particularly vividly show the dystopian atmosphere inside the Mäusebunker.

Together with the incredible amount of plans, sections and historic photographs as well as the informative texts, Fingerle’s photographs leave no doubt why Mäusebunker and Hygieneinstitut are outstanding examples of German Brutalism that with the present volume receive a well-deserved homage!