![]() It excited the imagination and stood out as something different “daddyo”. People reacted to this ‘new’ seemingly organic form in a completely different way to the aesthetic of a glass box. Felix Candela’s shell like concrete buildings barely millimetres thick in parts were astounding not only for their beauty but the actuality of their construction. The interest in what Robin Boyd called “the Engineering of Excitement” (Architectural Review, Nov 1958) was not just that it was ‘new’ but it was also innovation and technology, and obviously so. Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim museum and these other buildings were the antithesis and reaction to a world of Mies van der Rohe copyist architecture, a panacea to international style foisted as saviour and nursemaid for a modern society. These are almost legendary buildings of a sort seldom seen in the ‘modern world’ of the 1950’s and indeed are rightfully heralded as unique. ![]() ![]() Antoni Gaudi’s ‘Sagrada’ Cathedral would perhaps fall into the poetic, as would Mendelsohn’s ‘Einstein’ tower and Le Corbusier’s Church of Notre Dame in Ronchamp.
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