Next, let's take a look at the 30-year-old of many architects.
Radical thirty years old
1920, at the age of 33, he traveled long distances in Paris with a group of artists, painted and designed houses for his parents, founded the magazine "New Spirit", and began to advocate modern technology and praise living machines crazily.
Three years later, he began to publish articles one after another, and merged them into a masterpiece, Towards New Architecture, which laid the foundation for the modernist architectural revolution, and gradually became the most influential architect in the 20th century.
△ Corbusier and Domino System
At the same time, Gropius and Meyer were only 28 years old when they designed the Fagus factory together, which was the most advanced industrial building before World War I..
19 19, just after the first world war, 36-year-old Gropius became the principal of Weimar Art and Technology School, and renamed the school "Bauhaus", which started the educational revolution of modernist design.
△ Gropius and Bauhaus School Building
The 31-year-old lady has just finished her military service. But before his military service, he was already designing houses for the upper class. He married the daughter of a wealthy industrialist and divorced after only four years.
After returning to Berlin, Miss became an important member of the Eleventh Group, and its weight in the fields of architecture and art became heavier and heavier.
△ Mies
Wright was a cartographer in Sullivan's office before he was 30. Because of his eccentric personality, he often fights with other students.
In order to get married, he borrowed $5,000 from Sullivan to build a house and signed a five-year contract. By the age of 27, Wright had become the chief cartographer. Because of his luxurious life and heavy debts, Wright took on a lot of private work outside, but this violated the contract with Sullivan.
At the age of thirty, Wright left louis sullivan's company and set up his own office. They haven't met and talked for twelve years.
△ Wright
Around 19 10, 23-year-old Corbusier, 24-year-old Miss and 27-year-old Gropius are interns in Baehrens, and they will also start an architectural revolution in the future. In their 30 s and 40 s, they have subverted the way people think about architecture for thousands of years.
In their radical thirties, they are in an era of drastic social changes and violent impact of philosophical and artistic thoughts, so when they are still young, they can break the qualification barrier of academic circles and become the ideological leaders of Xu's architectural movement.
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Latent thirty years old
From 65438 to 0946, I.M. Pei, 29, became the youngest associate professor at Harvard University. At this prosperous moment, he resolutely moved from the circle of academic elites to commercial real estate construction.
For more than 20 years, he has been advertised as a commercial architect and not recognized by architectural elites. We don't know if this is a good decision, but for Pei at that time, making such a decision is really full of magic that ordinary people can't understand.
And this kind of courage may be the reason why he began to make a name for himself twenty years later.
△ I.M. Pei couple
In his thirties, philip johnson left the Museum of Modern Art and began to become a journalist and political worker. Five years later, he gave up journalism and returned to Harvard University to become a student in Gropius. At that time, I.M. Pei happened to be in the same classroom with him.
It was not until he was forty years old that he had his own designed building and a glass house for himself. Johnson, who has always been regarded as a curator and writer, began to have the supreme voice in the American architectural circle. Many years later, many media regarded him as "the most powerful architect in architecture".
△ philip johnson
Louis Kahn, a 30-year-old architect, lives on his wife's income. Although he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, he has been unemployed since his trip to Europe.
After more than 20 years, although he made various attempts, he was not as dazzling as other architects. It was not until he was in his fifties that a project originally belonging to Sha Lining accidentally fell on him, and the accumulation of more than 20 years came out in generate at that time.
Kang became famous almost overnight. People like to describe this architectural poet as "quiet and bright", and tranquility may be the time he faced when he was thirty.
△ Louis Kahn
Venturi, who is about 30 years old, traveled in Europe for two years with a Roman scholarship from an American college and has been teaching at the University of Pennsylvania since he came back. At this time, he did not formally go to war with modernism.
He kept preparing theoretical ammunition, and about ten years later, he released the architectural masterpiece "Contradiction and Complexity of Architecture", which is comparable to "Towards New Architecture". Since then, the house he designed for his mother has become an important part of the textbook of architectural history.
△ Venturi, Scott and Mother's House
In the mid-20th century, Europe was in ruins, and the United States became the battlefield of academic and public opinion in the architectural circle. However, it is the commercial buildings under the real estate industry that occupy the mainstream of urbanization. Only by lurking in the commercial vortex can we find more opportunities.
After that round of urbanization, Louis Kahn and I.M. Pei began to shine. At that time, the United States began to pursue buildings with more spiritual value, which influenced the transformation and thinking of these architects.
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More than thirty years old
1969, Tadao Ando established his own architectural firm in Osaka. This year, he was 28 years old.
At the age of seventeen, Tadao Ando gave up his status as a professional boxer and fell in love with concrete art under the influence of carpenters and math teachers. Due to economic reasons, he didn't go to college, but only worked part-time in some architectural design firms. He took out the money he earned from working in a woodworking furniture store, spent four years traveling around the world and took many photos, some of which were used by louis kahn in his portfolio. After I came back, I opened my own office.
Tadao Ando, who is 30 years old, may not be famous enough, but there are only five years left before Yukiyoshi Hasegawa, who made him famous.
People talk about Ando's course "Twenty Years of Architects" when he was in Tokyo University. In a sense, this "architectural chicken soup" about architectural dreams has inspired many people to embark on the road of architecture.
△ Tadao Ando
Thirty-year-old Koolhaas, his wife and other architects became OMA, and his student Zaha Hadid joined them. However, before becoming an architect, Koolhaas was a journalist. At the age of nineteen, Koolhaas began to study architecture as a reporter. He had the same strong interest in media and architecture. Five years later, he began to study architecture in AA.
During this period, he went to new york to write a paper and made an in-depth study of the city. In the future, his surreal architectural masterpiece Crazy new york was conceived even when he was less than 30 years old.
△ Koolhaas
Thirty-year-old Zaha Hadid opened his own office in London. Because of her unique design language, it has gradually attracted international attention, but it lacks mainstream recognition.
At the age of 33, Zaha's competition plan "Hong Kong Peak Plan" was thrown into the trash by the judges, but another judge, Isozaki Shin, picked up the plan at that time. He said that Zaha's style will become an important force in the future construction industry. This prophecy has come true.
Zaha was included in the list of seven architects of "architectural deconstruction" which was very popular at that time by Johnson, and was exhibited in an international exhibition. At the age of forty, Zaha and others came to the first completed project-Vitera Fire Department. This propelled her career to take off. Her complex and gorgeous curve language can be gradually completed with avant-garde technology, and various projects fly like pieces of paper.
Around the age of 50, Zaha won the Pritzker Architecture Award, the highest honor in architecture.
△ Zaha, Koolhaas
△ Zaha works
After the post-modernism began, the architectural world entered a pluralistic era, so we saw architects with different backgrounds, who had many legendary experiences. These experiences eventually became their respective architectural philosophies. The diversity of society gives architects more opportunities to display their talents.
When we talk about the word "only thirty", although we are emphasizing personal struggle, we cannot ignore the background of the whole society and the times.
Great writers cannot be bred in this era, because we have lost the environment for creating writers; So for this generation of architects, do we have the environment and ability to create spiritual shelters?