07/02/2026
1950. Koenig House No. 1, Los Encinos Avenue, Glendale, California.
"I was too innocent at the time to realize I was doing something different. But it had its advantages. When you're too young to distinguish between the possible and the impossible, you tend to go further."
"When Koenig chose steel as a building material, like Raphael Soriano and Charles Eames, he was breaking new ground and bringing industrial technology into the domestic sphere." (Neil Jackson, 2007)
Neil Jackson, in Koenig, 2007, Taschen, Germany, p. 17.
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20/01/2026
2016. Alexander Daxböck, Tokyo Metropolis.
"This Japanese urban environment, composed like a manga comic, is a digital experiment that didn't use a three-dimensional model, so the shadows were intuitive: it's a local manifestation of a globalized media landscape."
Helen Thomas, in Drawing Architecture, 2025, Phaidon, London, p. 34.
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09/01/2026
1975. James Wines (SITE), indeterminate façade, Best Products, Houston, TX.
"The meaning of an established system of signs can change through transformations and ultimately lead to its destruction. Wines's hallucinatory exercises in 'de-architecturalization' with friezes on the verge of collapse, carefully designed and painstakingly constructed ruins, mimic the aftermath of a natural disaster. The allure of the designs lies in the perversion of intentional signs."
J.P. Bonta in Systems of Signification in Architecture, GG, Spain 1977, pp. 66-69. Photo: James Wines (SITE), indeterminate façade, 1975, Best Products, Houston, TX, p. 73.
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02/01/2026
1970. "A child holding the seeds of human futures in her hands."
Ken Garland, for the book cover of Design Methods: Seeds of Human Futures by J. Chirstopher Jones, Wiley Publishers.
In Ken Garland: Structure and Substance, 2025, Thames and Hudson, UK, London, p. 270.
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19/12/2025
2006. Oscar Hagerman. Ayuuk Higher Institute, Oaxaca, Mexico.
"They asked that the University be integrated into the Mixe world so they could feel it belonged to them... they proposed palm-thatched roofs, since there were palm trees on the site and they could do the installation themselves." Oscar Hagerman.
In Oscar Hagerman, 2018, Arquine, p. 136.
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13/12/2025
1907. Alexander Graham Bell. Tower of prefabricated elements, 28 meters.
“Translated into the language of the rational 19th century, Graham Bell reminds us in some ways, through his ideas of universality, of Leonardo da Vinci, if we see in him the embodiment of the
Renaissance concept.” Konrad Wachsmann.
In Udo Kultemann, Contemporary Architecture, 1969, pp. 29-30, photo in Wendepunkt Im Bauen, 1959.
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13/12/2025