Looking for the skinny on architectural history? Well, Frederico Gonzalez and Andrea Stinga of Ombú Architecture have condensed the literal ABCs of modern and contemporary architects into a delightful animated clip. See buildings by celebrated architects from Alvar Aalto to Zaha Hadid bobble and dance to a whimsical tune fit for an early twentieth-century slapstick routine. It’s a minute and a half of your internet-surfing time you won’t regret.
Here is the alphabetical list …
Alvar AAlto | Säynätsalo Town Hall – Finland
Luis Barragán | Satellite Towers – Mexico City
Santiago Calatrava | Satolas Airport Railway Station – Lyon, France
Luís Domènech i Montaner | Antoni Tàpies Foundation – Barcelona
Eduardo Souto de Moura | Paula Rego’s House of Stories – Cascais, Portugal
Norman Foster | London City Hall, England
Frank Gehry | Guggenheim – Bilbao, Spain
Herzog & de Meuron | Beijing National Stadium – China
Arata Isozaki | Palau Sant Jordi – Barcelona
Philip Johnson | The Glass House – New Canaan, US
Louis Kahn | National Parliament of Bangladesh – Dhaka city
Le Corbusier | Villa Savoye – Poissy, Francia
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Barcelona Pavilion, Spain
Oscar Niemeyer | National Congress of Brazil, Brasília
Joseph Maria Olbrich | Secession Building – Vienna, Austria
César Pelli | Petronas Twin Tower – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Giacomo Quarenghi | the Smolny Institute – St. Petersburg, Russia.
Renzo Piano + Richard Rogers | Pompidou Centre – Paris, Francia
Álvaro Siza | Ibere Camargo Foundation – Porto Alegre, Brazil
Kenzo Tange | Tokyo Olympic Stadium, Japan
Jørn Utzon | Sydney Opera House – Australia
William Van Alen | Chrysler Building – New York City
Frank Lloyd Wright | Guggenheim – New York, US
Iannis Xenakis | Philips Pavilion Expo ’58 – Brussels
Minoru Yamasaki | World Trade Center
Zaha Hadid | The Pierres Vives Building – Montpellier, France
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