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Who are some modern architects that have designed strange architecture?
I'm doing a project for art, and I'm looking for an architect who has designed something odd or unusual. I love the Kansas City Museum but I can't find any info on who created it. I have to be able to get lots of info on the person. Thanks SO much!
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- Here's a few others: the 'Experience Music Project' (or EMP) here in Seattle. That building is REALLY just like a blob - worst eyesore I've ever seen and I've lived in Seattle my entire life. Don't know the so-called 'architect's name though. It on the web somewhere. There's another complete atrocity in Ontario where one of my ex-girlfriends now lives. I think it called the Royal Ontario Museum. I did look it up recently - the 'architect' is some Asian guy. The building is completely incongruous. Yet he made a ton of cash putting up an eyesore. That's on the internet as well. Try looking at those two using a Google image search - then scratch your head and wonder what were they thinking (or smoking :-) ?
- Well, Frank Gehry has done some pretty wild looking buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles for example. He was also collaborated with a Czech architect on the "Dancing House" is Prague which is pretty strange. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry Ken Shuttleworth worked with Foster and Partners to design London's 30 St. Mary Axe (the Gherkin), which is certainly unique. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shuttleworth_(architect) As far as the Kansas City Museum goes, it was designed by Henry Holt of Holt, Price and Barnes and was built in 1908. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Museum Cheers.
