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ARIZONA
Arizona Architecture

Key Arizonan Projects:

Planar House - Cottle Residence, Paradise Valley
-
Steven Holl Architects


CALIFORNIA
California Buildings

Key Californian Projects:

Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, Los Angeles
2004
Morphosis Architecture

Crystal Cathedral
-
Philip Johnson with John Burgee

Photograph © Andrew McRae
Los Angeles Cathedral

Dominus Winery, Yountville
1998
Herzog & de Meuron Architects

de Young Museum, San Francisco
2005
Herzog & de Meuron Architects

The Getty Center, Los Angeles
1997
Richard Meier Architects

Montecito Residence, Santa Barbara County
2007
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen

American house

Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral, Los Angeles
2000
Rafael Moneo Architects

Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles
2003
Frank Gehry - Gehry Partners


Photo © Andrew McRae
Los Angeles Concert Hall

COLORADO
Colorado Buildings

Key Project:

Denver Art Museum - Extension, Denver
2006
Studio Libeskind

CONNECTICUT
Connecticut Buildings

Key Projects:

Residential Playhouse, Greenwich
2007
Austin Patterson Disston Architects

Photo David Sundberg/ESTO
American house

Breuer House II, New Canaan
1948
Marcel Breuer Architect

Smith House, Darien
1967
Richard Meier Architects

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
1953
Louis Kahn / Polshek Partnership Architects, LLP
American gallery

FLORIDA
Florida Architecture

Key Florida Buildings:

COR Building, Miami
2007-
Oppenheim Architecture + Design

dbox
American skyscraper : cor tower

cube Building, Miami
2007-
Oppenheim Architecture + Design

dbox
American skyscraper : cube

GEORGIA
Georgia Architecture

Key Georgian Buildings:

High Museum of Art, Atlanta
1983
Richard Meier Architects

High Museum of Art Expansion, Atlanta
2006
Renzo Piano Architects

HAWAII
Hawaiian Buildings

IDAHO

Chicken Point Cabin, Northern Idaho
2003
Tom Kundig Architect

Sun Valley Center for the Arts building, Ketchum
2007
Tom Kundig Architect

American Arts building

ILLINOIS
Illinois Architecture

Key Illinois Buildings:

860-880 Lake Shore Apartments, Chicago
1951
Mies van der Rohe, Architect

Crown Hall + IIT Masterplan, Chicago
1940-
Mies van der Rohe, Architect

Farnsworth House, Plano
1950
Mies van der Rohe, Architect

Fordham Spire, Chicago
2010
Santiago Calatrava Architects

Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn, Chicago
-
Gehry Partners


INDIANA
Indiana Architecture

Key Indiana Building:

The Atheneum, at New Harmony
1979
Richard Meier Architects

IOWA
Iowa Architecture

University of Iowa building, Iowa City
2007
Steven Holl Architects

© Andy Ryans
American University

KANSAS
Kansas Buildings

Key Kansas Building:

Performing Arts Centre, Kansas City
-
Moshe Safdie Architects

KENTUCKY
Kentucky Architecture

Key Kentucky Buildings:

Biomedical / Biological Sciences Research Building, Lexington
-
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates with A. M. Kinney + HERA

Museum Plaza Louisville
2007-
REX

(PRNewsFoto/Museum Plaza)
American skyscraper

LOUISIANA
Louisiana Buildings

Key Louisiana Building:

Holy Rosary Catholic Church complex
2004
Trahan Architects

Tim Hursley / The Arkansas Office
Holy Rosary Church

MASSACHUSETTS
Massachusetts Architecture

Key Massachusetts Buildings:

Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Extension to Harvard University Fogg Museum
1984
JSMWA with Perry Dean Rogers and Partners

Breuer House I, Lincoln
1939
Marcel Breuer Architect

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge
1963
Le Corbusier

MIT Chapel, Cambridge
1955
Eero Saarinen, Architect

Natick Collection, Natick
2007
Beyer Blinder Belle

© Chuck Choi
American mall

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
2007
Kyu Sung Woo Architects

© Timothy Hursley
American museum

Simmons Hall - undergraduate residence, MIT, Boston
2003
Steven Holl Architects

MICHIGAN
Michigan Architecture

Key Michigan Buildings:

American House 08, Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, northern Oakland County
2008
William Massie

American House

Douglas House, Harbor Springs
1973
Richard Meier Architects

MINNESOTA
Minnesota Architecture

MISSISSIPPI
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum, Biloxi
-
Gehry Partners


MISSOURI
Missouri Buildings

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art - Extension, Kansas City
2007
Steven Holl Architects

American museum

Saint Louis Art Museum Expansion
2007-
David Chipperfield

© Imaging Atelier 2007
American museum

MONTANA
Gompertz Residence, Paradise Valley
2001
RoTo Architects

NEBRASKA

Nebraska Architecture

NEVADA
Nevada Architecture

Mondri and Elano Hotels, Las Vegas
-
Julien de Smedt Architects

Las Vegas Hotel

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
2003
will bruder+PARTNERS

American museum

NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Hampshire Buildings

Exeter Library, Exeter
1972
Louis Kahn
American library

Zimmerman House, Manchester
1950
Frank Lloyd Wright

American house

NEW JERSEY
New Jersey Architecture

George Segal Art Gallery, Montclair
-
ikon.5 architects

American Gallery

Quarry Street House, Princeton
2007
RMJM Hillier

American house

Princeton University - Design Arts Buildings
2008-
Steven Holl Architects
Princeton University

NEW MEXICO
New Mexico Buildings

Spaceport America
2007-
Foster & Partners

image credit: Foster + Partners
Spaceport America

NEW YORK
New York Buildings

Key New York Projects:

AT&T Building, New York City
1984
Philip Johnson Architect

College of New Rochelle: Center for Wellness, New Rochelle
-
ikon.5 architects
American college

EMPAC, Troy
2008
Grimshaw

image credit: Grimshaw
New York State Building

Freedom Tower, New York City
-
David Childs - SOM / Studio Libeskind

House, Old Westbury, Nassau County, Long Island
1971
Richard Meier Architects

Prada Epicenter, New York City
2001
Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA

photo: Armin Linke
Prada New York

Schindler Offices, Manhattan
2006
ikon.5 architects

Manhattan offices

State University of New York, New Paltz
2010
ikon.5 architects

American university

TWA Terminal
1962
Eero Saarinen, Architect

Westchester House, Westchester County
1986
Richard Meier Architects

World Trade Center Transportation Hub, New York City
2009
Santiago Calatrava Architects

NORTH CAROLINA
NASCAR Hall of Fame
-
Pei Cobb Freed Architects

OHIO
Ohio Buildings

Key Ohio Projects:

Lindner Athletic Center at the University of Cincinnati
2006
Bernard Tschumi Architects

Peter Mauss/ESTO
American University building

Mathematics Tower, Columbus
1992
Philip Johnson Architect

The Richard and Lois Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati
-
Zaha Hadid Architects


OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma Buildings

OREGON
Oregon Buildings

PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania Buildings

Key Pennsylvanian Projects:

PPG Place, Pittsburgh
1984
Philip Johnson Architect

Vanna Venturi House, at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
1962
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates

RHODE ISLAND
Rhode Island Architecture

TEXAS
Texas Architecture

Key Texan Project:
Museum of Fine Arts, The Audrey Jones Beck Building, Houston
2000
Rafael Moneo Architects

Winspear Opera House, Dallas
2008
Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners
Winspear Opera House

Fort Worth Buildings

UTAH
Utah Architecture

Key Utah Project:

Salt Lake City Main Public Library
-
Moshe Safdie Architects

Utah Museum of Natural History
2008
Polshek Partnership

© Red Square, inc.
Utah Museum

VERMONT
Vermont Architecture

VIRGINIA
Virginia Architecture

Key Virginia Project:

Dulles International Airport
1962
Eero Saarinen, Architect

WASHINGTON
Washington Architecture

Key Washington Building:

Seattle Public Library, Seattle
2004
Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA

photo: Philippe Ruault
Seattle Library

WASHINGTON DC
Washington DC Developments

Key Washington DC Projects:

Swiss Embassy Washington DC
2007
Steven Holl Architects

© Andy Ryans
Swiss Embassy

British Embassy
-
Edwin Lutyens

WISCONSIN
Wisconsin Buildings

Key Wisconsin Building:

Taliesin III, Spring Green
1925
Frank Lloyd Wright

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Frank Lloyd Wright house:
Zimmerman House Manchester, New Hampshire
American house

Key American house: Farnsworth House, Illinois

Daniel Libeskind is an American citizen

Daniel Libeskind - Awards include:
American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Architecture

Alvaros Siza - Teaching Positions include:
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA - Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor

Richard Meier - Background:
Meier was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934. In 1957 he graduated from Cornell University, USA. Richard worked for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Architects and also Marcel Breuer Architect. His practice started in 1963. Meier was a member of the "New York Five", famous for purist white neo-Corbusian architecture.
American architect : Richard Meier

Frank Gehry: The Architect
Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1947

Frank Gehry - Awards include:
Gold Medal - American Institute of Architects 1999
Lifetime Achievement Award - Americans for the Arts 2000
American architect : Frank Gehry

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