William Penn High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1975
(Mitchell/Giurgola Architects)
![IBM Complex, Boca Raton, Florida, 1968-74
(Marcel Breuer)
“[…] the dramatically patterned surfaces of IBM’s buildings were understood as metaphorical residues or imprints left upon architecture by the passage of IBM’s primary activity - data...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0lc6sysRL1qzglyyo1_1280.jpg "https://fuckyeahbrutalism.tumblr.com/post/18972396732/ibm-complex-boca-raton-florida-1968-74-marcel")
IBM Complex, Boca Raton, Florida, 1968-74
(Marcel Breuer)
“[…] the dramatically patterned surfaces of IBM’s buildings were understood as metaphorical residues or imprints left upon architecture by the passage of IBM’s primary activity - data processing or "pattern recognition” - through the medium of architecture.“ (112)
Read my brief review of John Harwood’s outstanding recent book The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976:
Apartments, Viale Quattro Venti, Rome, Italy, 1962-63
(Ennio Borzi, Giovanni Bruno, and Franco Tamburini)
Jaraguá Apartment Building, São Paulo, Brazil, 1984-88
(Paulo Mendes da Rocha)
Pilgrimage Church, Neviges, Germany, 1965-68
(Gottfried Böhm)
Secondary School, Aesch, Switzerland, 1958-61
(Walter M. Förderer, Rolf Otto, Hans Zwimpfer)
Town Hall, Bensberg, Germany, 1962-67
(Gottfried Böhm)
Andrew Melville Hall, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1964-67
(James Stirling)
Andrew Melville Hall, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1964-67
(James Stirling)
Pilgrimage Church, Neviges, Germany, 1965-68
(Gottfried Böhm)
