Icons of contemporary architecture
“The role of play in the creative process is to free up the habitual links between things and allow new ones to occur. The role of directed research is to provide an ordering principle. So, in a successfully creative institute or individual, both these contrary impulses have to be cultivated,”
– Charles Jencks, ‘The Architecture of the Jumping Universe’
Beyeler Foundation Museum, Basel Switzerland
Architect Renzo Piano
Ara Pacis Museum, Rome Italy
Architect Richard Meier
Vitra Design Museum, Basel Germany
Architect Frank Gehry
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome Italy
Architect Renzo Piano
Actelion Headquarters, Basel Switzerland
Architects Herzog & de Meuron
Santo Volto di Gesu church, Rome Italy
Architects Sartogo & Grenon
Forum 3 Novartis Campus, Basel Switzerland
Architects Diener & Diener
Jubilee Church, Rome Italy
Architect Richard Meier
Georgetown University Library, Doha Qatar
Architects Legorreta + Legorreta
Qatar National Convention Centre, Doha Qatar
Architect Arata Isozaki
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Qatar
Architect I. M. Pei
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Qatar
Architect I. M. Pei
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Student Centre, Doha Qatar
Architects Legorreta + Legorreta, Helix Courtyard by artist Jan Hendrix
Liberal Arts & Science College, Doha Qatar
Architects Coelacanth K&H
Institute for Hospital Pharmaceuticals, Basel Switzerland
Architects Herzog & de Meuron
KFW Westarkade, Frankfurt Germany
Architects Sauerbruch & Hutton© Images shot and edited by Pygmalion Karatzas.
