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First Unitarian Church, Rochester, NY, 1959-64 (Louis I. Kahn)
Screen: Open screening to facades and walls to add richness and disguise structure
Lever House, New York, NY, 1951-52.(Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
Mirror: Making whole walls of reflective materials.
The mirror was perceived to be ornamental.
They are presaging post-modernism because they reflect other buildings.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y. Architect: Marcel Breuer and Hamilton Smith (1963-1966).
Brutalist and Arrested Rust Sheathing: An attempt to recall the frankness of established modernism. Rust was popular in the 1960s and 1970s as an imitation of ruin
Knights of Columbus Building, New Haven, CT, 1965-69 (Roche & Dinkeloo)
Sculptural: Three dimension character is emphasized
John Hancock Center, Chicago, IL, 1966-68 (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
Hi-Tech: Exaggeration of the technological infrastructure of buildings. With water pipes and heat ducts placed on the exterior of the building.