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Breaking the box: 10 buildings from the past 15 years that bend the rules
Photographer: Micha L. Rieser»Go to Slideshow: 10 Buildings that Break the Box
“The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God”—so said Antoni Gaudi, who in the late 1800s designed his mammoth stone church, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, using a non-Euclidean geometry of hyperbolas, spirals, and curves. Over the course of the twentieth century, plenty of architects have toiled against the visual tyranny of right angles and straight lines. Frank Lloyd Wright urged architects to “break the box,” designing houses like Falling Water with the corners cut out, letting nature in through the window (and driving pragmatic homeowners crazy with a mosquito-friendly lack of screens).
The past 15 years have been especially interesting and productive (and controversial), as technology has allowed architects to squash the box, twist it, destroy it, deconstruct it, bend it, bury it, suspend it in the sky, or ignore it altogether.Go to Slideshow: 10 Buildings that Break the Box
Buildings featured:
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Therme Vals, Switzerland
Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Église Saint-Pierre, Firminy, France
Jewish Museum, Berlin
Seattle Central Library, Washington
City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain
CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Center, Australia
