I love listening to your videos while doing my plates. Your videos are great, and they really inspire me to pursue architecture. I'll look forward to seeing more of your videos. Please continue making more videos.

@robertsarchitecture

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Phillip Johnson does not belong on this list and Alvar Aalto is a glaring omission. One leading historian of modern architecture, William J.R. Curtis, would say that Corb, Mies, Wright, Aalto and Kahn were the most significant/influential/consequential modern architects.

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Aalto would have been a good transition to regional Modernism. But I had to limit it to 10. Honorable mention maybe?

@Methilde

Жыл бұрын

The matter it's this obsession of "top ten" rankings wich is a real pretentious desease for me.

@rurathn5534

Жыл бұрын

​@@Methilde desease

@aldolopez9302

Жыл бұрын

Excelente lista ! Muchos son arquitectos de lo monumental, Le Corbusier se preocupó por lo pequeño que es la vivienda, el problema más grande y antiguo , para ello dejó abierta la senda de que la industrialización es el camino para resolver la deficiencia habitacional, una vivienda es una máquina para habitar, es decir es un instrumento que permite satisfacer necesidades primordiales del hombre, por eso hay que evolucionar en su construcción, porque la humanidad aumentó en número, un gran maestro !

Thanks for list. I’d include some more architects who influenced residential home building. It seems to me that the homes we live in influence us more than a public building we may see only a few times. Cliff May is a favorite.

I lived in New York City for 13 years. I passed through Walter Gropius' Pan Am building lobby hundreds of times coming out of Grand Central Terminal; was employed at 270 Park Avenue for two years (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) a building which has since been dismantled and is being rebuilt as a mega-tall skyscraper; and worked around the corner from Mies' Seagram Building (52nd and Park Ave) where I spent many hours sitting on its plaza and experiencing its excellence.

Wonderful list. I was just hoping to see Niemeyer with such names...

glad to have found your channel!

I love your channel. I am a fine-artist and illustrator, and do concept art. Your videos are immensely insightful. I would love to see you deal with turn of the century architecture like Gaudí or elements from art deco and art nouveau.

You make me so Glad putting dear Carlo Scarpa in this list. Bravíssimo!!!

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Niemeyer and Saarinen are glaring omissions. Both were more influential than Scarpa or Nervi. Saarinen's connection to Yale establishes a direct lineage between him and Rodgers and Foster. You can even glimpse the future (i.e., Zumthor and others) in Saarinen's Yale residential colleges. I would also take Neutra over Johnson. Johnson followed the trends from the International Style to Postmodernism. Though not intentionally, but more because of the clarity of his work, (specifically its massing and detailing), Neutra almost single-handedly created the style that we know today as midcentury modern. ... Gehry is NOT a modern architect. To make that point, Phillip Johnson labeled Gehry a Deconstructivist. Gehry also does NOT belong that high on any list. He is a designer of spectacular forms. On the inside, his buildings are sheetrock palaces with no profound understanding of human scale, movement, and atmosphere. As to SOM, its modern reputation is more or less the product of one architect (Gordon Bunshaft) and perhaps one building. It's not the Hancock Center, but the Lever House in New York.

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

Good points. I had to limit the list to ten, so impossible to include everyone. I focused on influential concepts, and not how good each architect was. Scarpa is on this list as he was one of the first Modern architect to incorporate historic elements with the new. This is very important when doing renovation projects, or building in existing cities. Nervi was one of the first to nail down how to incorporate modern building materials and modern structural engineering into Modern architecture. He is the direct inspiration for Calatrava. Johnson invented the lie of the 'International Style'. Modernism wasn't international, nor was it a style. Modernism was a way of working, and a process. He reduced it to a 'style'. It was also not 'International', it was Northern European. He also brought the German Bauhaus to the U.S. and promoted 'industrial design' as a new art form. He also invented the term 'Postmodernism'. He wasn't the best architect, but his social influence was great. Both for good and bad. You are right Gehry is a Postmodern architect, but I included him on this list because his profound effect on the profession. His office basically invented 3D modeling for complex geometries in architecture using Catia. There would be no Zaha Hadid or Bjarke Ingels without the design process he pioneered. Architects probably wouldn't be using Revit now if not for the success of this way of working. SOM invented the image of the Modern skyscraper, and they have been pioneering how to work with international and regional clients while still being Modern.

@jaderdiniz5239

Жыл бұрын

​ @Roberts Architecture , @LDVTennis, BOTH with excelent points, cheers!!! thanks.

@BOBBOB-tx7ox

Жыл бұрын

Well said, I do respect Gehry because he doing his own thing, he is experimenting, he is trying to figure out who he is, I respect that, I don't like his work but I respect his journey.

@rurathn5534

Жыл бұрын

Dude are you serious? Nervi wasnt as influential??

@LDVTennis

Жыл бұрын

@@rurathn5534 As an undergrad at Yale, I took Vincent Scully's Modern Architecture course. He did not mention any Nervi buildings. He did mention Saarinen and the engineering of his projects. He must have felt obligated because I learned later he was not fond of his work. Of course, Scully later changed his tune. Whatever the case, if Scully did not find Nervi influential enough to mention, I dare say I am not wrong to think he was not as influential as Saarinen.

Whatever one thinks of the list, what I found hopeful as an non-architect was an acknowledgement that the major trends of the 20th Century were the tail wagging the dog. The tail was the corporate world and it's architectural fulfillment in the "International Style." We are the dog, and what Wallace Harrison (Empire State Plaza) did not learn from Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, it is to be hoped that 21st Century architects have, i.e., that human beings want more than to be cogs in a corporate utopia.

How about Alvar Aalto, considered as one of 5 pioneer modernist architect, considered by architectural historians & critics/theorists(Giedion, Frampton) who influenced lots of Scandinavian/Nordic architects as well as other US Postmodern, Deconstructivist & Post- structuralist architects & designers of Mier, Gehry & even 3rd/4th generation of contemporary architects (Utzon & Saarinen) through his buildings, urban planning, interior, furniture/furnishing designs greatly influenced a humanist as well as environmentalist designs & architecture w/the sensible/sensitive Finnish response for places & people.

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Aalto would have been a good add or honorable mention.

@ubroc

Жыл бұрын

@@robertsarchitecture Aalto is top 4

@stonehenges5722

8 ай бұрын

I would have liked to see Aalto on this list.

FLW brings in such a combination of elements. Most others on this list lean so heavily to concrete and glass. But I’m a wright fan so I’m probably biased 😂

Yes. Saarinen. Minus the St.Louis arch) Dulles airport is one of his best. Also his furniture. The spool table.

In the late 20th century, I saw a "post, beam, panel" architecture of the Arab palaces. They were not for outsiders. They had huge spaces, with protective elements against the heat and dryness of their world. Just enough light, but with expansive spaces, and sheltered privacy.

I respect your picks but I do disagree with some of them. But you have hooked me and I look forward to other videos.

Excellent presentation. Precise in relating the essentials. And very convincing. Indispensable for students and others alike. Great quotations from the masters.

@robertsarchitecture

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

great video, thanks

I put Pier Luigi Nervi on the same level as Leonardo Da Vinci. His creations in reinforced concrete are Works of Art.

@ubroc

Жыл бұрын

If you are going there then Bucky gets the win

Alvaro Siza, maybe after ten but i love him so much. Beauty lirism minimalistic version of Aalto, hero of sudeuropa that made beautiful things also all over the world.

As an architect I agree with all the architects on the list but one, that would be Philip Johnson. He wasn't a particularly good architect he was however a power broker and connected. There are a host of other architects with equal influence. Saarinen comes to mind. Johnson did a few buildings and talked a lot, copied the trends and talked a lot.

@Deadbeatwaffle

Жыл бұрын

Saarinen holds a much greater place in my eyes than Phillip johnson ever will. Good call

@lwdewhirst6643

Жыл бұрын

File Johnson under Mies’ coat tails

Top Tens are ALWAYS at least somewhat wrong. This one says some interesting things about architecture and I salute it for that reason alone.

the tower concept in architectuer has ruined human habitat. Eco-friendly architecture is the need. When I walk in Thane the Tower Architecture covers the blue sky above us besides water and sanitary issues. Thanks Ranjan

I love your passion for architecture as mine.

A lot of outstanding modern architects were not mentioned, John Lautner certainly being one of them.

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Maybe I'll do a video about Lautner.

@MB-mh6xv

Жыл бұрын

@@robertsarchitecture Please do, that would be great.

@Deadbeatwaffle

Жыл бұрын

@Darth Vader zaha isn’t In the category of modern architects

@BOBBOB-tx7ox

Жыл бұрын

I agree

Francis kere and tadeo ando are remarkable for their use of alternative materials and unique structural patterns

I.M Pei & Eero Saarinen are two of my favorite architects.

I'd like to see both Richard Meier and Niemeyer's names. (Santiago Calatrava as well)

So where are we now? What ideas drive architecture today? Sustainability (I don’t think so)? A poor capitalist take on modernism? Capitalist branding architecture? I’m about to graduate from architecture school and I have no motivation to find a job because there is no direction as to what is contemporary.

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

There was a fad in the 2000s for 'Starchitects'. Folks like Gehry, Koolhaas, Hadid, Holl, Calatrava, Piano, and others. This was because of the 'Bilbao Effect' created by Gehry. There was a huge backlash against this in the profession, and now the big thing is being socially responsible. Equity and diversity, sustainability, Net-Zero, etc... . The architecture profession loves fads, and jumps on whatever is the latest thing because architects are always trying to be 'relevant'. If you are just graduating I suggest finding out what you are passionate about and following that. Don't follow fads. They don't make for a long satisfying architectural career.

Very Western Anglo European focus here. I prefer many Japanese architects such as Tange Kenzo, Kuma Kengo, Ando Tadao and Yoshio Taniguchi.

@BOBBOB-tx7ox

Жыл бұрын

I agree, a lot of other people should have been on the list

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Excellent channel

This is a great list! I am also a huge fan Santiago Calatrava but that I guess is not technically Modernism...

Great video, but, as people say, many important people left out. You should make another top 10 video so that you have a top 20!

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

Yes. I'll definitely do a follow up to this video with current architects.

Amazing project

Eliel and Eero Saarinen should be included

Do another one focusing on the east, there are a lot of good architects from Asia aka japan and china etc

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Great idea. Modern architecture is all about German and Northern Europeans and bringing this to the U.S. after WWII. I'll try to do a video on non-Western architecture soon.

@ubroc

Жыл бұрын

@@robertsarchitecture Metabolism is very much in the modernist mainstream. Kenzo Tange

What, no Gaudi? no Hadid? no Utzen? no Tadao Ando? no Arne Jacobsen? no Richard Rodgers? This list seems somewhat US centric in terms of influence. I am no architect...but my father was, and my views reflect both his influence and all that influenced him as well as my continued love of the architectural art form for some 50 years now. I am just grateful there are so many great architects who ably demonstrate the importance of the spaces we occupy so that when humans have an impact it is either minimal or inspirational or both

Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis I Kahn

I very much appreciate your videos, thank you for creating them. With that said, I disagree with your list, especially Corbu as number one. As others have mentioned, Lautner, Aalto and Kahn don’t get even a mention

Oscar Niemeyer

Thanks

Wright produced a richer variety than all the rest, but there is a wealth of ideas amongst them all.

@pastorgoof

Жыл бұрын

you sure what about Mies?

15:42 My favorite point in the video where AI mispronounces Richard Neutra's last name!😄

@modfus

Жыл бұрын

Not surprising. It got Le Corbusier wrong too.

@erics3457

Жыл бұрын

​@@modfus The pronunciation was pretty awful throughout. "Atelier", "epitomized", were also mispronounced. Other than that, great video.

guess u missed Ieoh Ming Pei who designed the entrance for louvre in paris

There is a Brazilian architect named Oscar Niemeyer who has dazzling work.

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Next to the Bauhaus Architects should be mentioned one over all and that is Richard Buckminster Fuller

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

I will definitely do a video on Buckmister Fuller in the future.

@BOBBOB-tx7ox

Жыл бұрын

Fuller whom I met once, was not really an architect he was more of a inventor, creator, innovator, theorist, all around thinker type

"Lois" Kahn? Sheesh. No mention of Kahn's mastery of light?

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Just a video quality suggestion, the background music/sound to Vocal sound ratio is causing your voice to seem a little unclear or busy, if you will. But I have no idea if you've figured that out already, so.. cheers!

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for letting me know.

@estherlove5172

Жыл бұрын

@@robertsarchitecture My Pleasure

In the context of Nervi influencing Calatrava, should Gaudí not be mentioned as maybe the first to take structural lessons from nature which many others have adopted since?

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

Yes, good call. I never thought of it, but yes Calatrava is drawing inspiration from Gaudi.

Those who watch this video must be rented, my soap is also rented😂

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Manual of the Barefoot Architect by Johan van Lengen; Gift of the Gods by Oscar Hidalgo; Manual of Earth Building by Gernot Minke

Claramente hay un sesgo norteamericano que sube algunos y baja otros. +Calatraba, -Phillip Jhonson +Frei Otto, +Peter Zumtor, +OMA, - Scarpa

Did Johnson copy Le Corbusier's dark rim glasses? Uncanny. I would ike to learn more on how the Pilotis has shapped modular, pre-fab homes being built where the purchaser can have their windows placed anywhere since the homes are specifically designed to have non-load bearing walls. BTW. what do you think of the UCSD Library as architectural use of space?

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Johnson and many architects copy Corbu's glasses. I haven't been to the UCSD Library so I can't say if the spaces work or not. But not a big fan of Brutalism.

@RyanJohnsonD

Жыл бұрын

@@robertsarchitecture Me neither. Tons of grey concrete at UCSD. It's interesting work, but something about it is offsetting/unsettling.

Pity you didn't include Zumthor and Ando.

Não mencionar Oscar Niemeyer foi um erro grave desse documentário ... sem desmerecer nenhum dos arquitetos mencionados ... mas Oscar Niemeyer projetou uma cidade inteira que é Brasilia , capital do Brasil

@matheusvasconcelos4120

Жыл бұрын

Niemeyer projetou os edifícios principais, o projeto urbanístico foi de Lúcio Costa, que sempre é esquecido.

"OOOOOoooOOO" is all I remember.

A list that omits Albert Kahn, whose firm completed more buildings than this group combined, is not comprehensive.

1) Le Corbusier 2) Frank Ghery 3) frank Lloyd Wright . .

For me, FLW is No.1 in everything. Though at heart I'm really a M. Safdie guy. Living in Spaces is what it's all about as his Habitat in Montreal is, has been, always the ideal.

How about Tadao Ando and Ricardo Bofill?

10:38 Andy Wahrhol on the left.

@robertsarchitecture

6 ай бұрын

Yes!

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Dear brother my fav is Mies Van Der Rohe

Why are there any japan architect like 1- Sou Fujimoto 2- Itsuko Hasegawa 3- Tadao Ando 4- Toyo Ito 5- SANAA 6- Arata Isozaki 7- Kisho Kurokawa 8- Junya Ishigami 9- Hiroshi Nakamura 10- Hata Tomohiro

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

Good point! I should do a video exclusively on Japanese architects.

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Alvar Aalto, Zaha Hadid and Oscar Niemeyer are missing. I would also mention Melnikov and Leonidov

Frank lloyd Wrigth estaria enojado por no estar en primera posición.

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It says venezuela in a building. Anyone knows what is it?

Niemeyer??? And Philip Johnson designed Glass House in 1945, a year b4 Mies started designing the Farnsworth house.

@jordesign

Жыл бұрын

Was going to say this. Farnsworth came AFTER Glass House.

@BOBBOB-tx7ox

Жыл бұрын

The glass house was the German aesthetic, Johnson again copying Mies work in Germany

@rozinant1237

Жыл бұрын

Mies had the Farnsworth fully designed by 1947, due to construction delays it was not built until '50-'51. Johnson's house was constructed between 1948 and 1949.

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How could Frank Gehry be a modern architect? He belongs to the express post modern school, so obvious.

Aalto, Jacobsen, Saarinen, Breuer?

"if it sounds good, it is good." Duke Ellington If it looks good ...

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You should look at a building and say "Wow!" because it is beautiful and not just weird for weird's sake. Let me wad up a piece of paper. Hey that would make a cool building. Not! And van der Rohe is the originator of the cookie cutter skyscraper. We have a building in my city that is identical to the Seagrams building and I've seen others in other cities.The credit should go to the person who designed the crackerbox. I'll take John Lautner any day.

What about Sinatra and Barragan ?

Oscar Niemeyer was the best, with his plastic engineering and lightness

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There can be only one: FLW

You missed Gustave Eiffel for his steel constructions, Ernst Sagebiel for his mother of all airports Berlin Tempelhof (as N. Forster called it), especially separating arrival and departure, and Frei Otto and others for their ultra light membrane structures (Olympic Park, Munich).

"Technocratic ideals" oh, so that's where it went wrong... Scarpa is the only human on this list.

@ryanburdeaux

Жыл бұрын

Frank Lloyd Wright was the only human on this list.

I would not have included Nervi (engineer ) Philip Johnson , SOM, Frank , Gehry. I would include Norman Foster,

@ryanburdeaux

Жыл бұрын

You’d leave FLW off this list? His work is always modern. Can’t say that about the others.

@peterk4134

Жыл бұрын

True, a great American architect; my only hesitation is his craft not quite in tune with the technology of his time. In a way, the American lay culture is still reflected in the delayed appreciation of modernism; still hung up for Moldings and the faking of materials for one up man ship among the Joneses.

Juan O'Gorman and Luis Barragan

Who was the architect of the Chrysler building?

@robertsarchitecture

Жыл бұрын

William Van Alen

@mariokajin

Жыл бұрын

@@robertsarchitecture Well that's my favourite Architect.

Look up Henry vande velde ;-)

Each one have pinnacles of design so it's hard to have a favourite. Though Scarpa is quintessential Italian of old/ modern elegant integration. My least favourite is Gehry. You forgot Piano Renzo.

"LEE Corbusier" , "Palazzo Del Lavorno"!? etc...How did you graduate any school?