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Simon Unwin | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 70–71) Yorkshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
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| Occupation(s) | Architect and writer |
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Simon Unwin (born 1952) is a British architect and writer.
He was born in 1952 in Yorkshire, but grew up in Wales. [1]
He studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London and the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff. From the Welsh School of Architecture, he obtained a PhD, and he went on to become a senior lecturer there. [1]
From 2004 to 2009, he was Professor of Architecture at the University of Dundee, [2] where he is now an emeritus professor. [3] [4]
He currently resides in Cardiff. [2]
Unwin has written several books about architecture:
In Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand, he analyses the following buildings:
| Number | Name | Architect | Year | Description |
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| 1 | Casa del Ojo de Agua | Ada Dewes and Sergio Puente | 1985–90 | A house in the Mexican jungle |
| 2 | Neuendorf House | John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin | 1987–89 | A holiday home on the island of Mallorca |
| 3 | Barcelona Pavilion | Mies van der Rohe | 1929 | Built as the German Pavilion at the Barcelona Universal Exposition |
| 4 | Truss Wall House | Kathryn Findlay and Eisaku Ushida | 1993 | A house in the Tsurukawa suburb of Machida-City, Japan |
| 5 | Endless House | Friedrich/Frederick Kiesler | 1947–61 | An unbuilt project for a house based in infinity |
| 6 | Farnsworth House | Mies van der Rohe | 1950 (designed c.1945) | On the banks of Fox River near Plano, Illinois, US |
| 7 | La Congiunta | Peter Märkli | 1992 | A gallery for the sculpture of Hans Josephsohn, Giornico, Switzerland |
| 8 | Un Cabanon | Le Corbusier | 1952 | An architect's vacation cabin at Cap Martin, on the south coast of France |
| 9 | Esherick House | Louis Kahn | 1959–61 | A house in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 10 | Maison à Bordeaux | Rem Koolhaas | 1998 | A house for a man confined to a wheelchair |
| 11 | Danteum | Giuseppe Terragni | 1938 | An unbuilt memorial to Dante Alighieri, intended for Mussolini's Rome |
| 12 | Fallingwater | Frank Lloyd Wright | 1933–36 | The house over a water fall in rural Pennsylvania |
| 13 | Villa Savoye | Le Corbusier | 1929 | A house in the Poissy suburb of Paris, France |
| 14 | Kempsey Guest Studio | Glenn Murcutt | 1992 | A converted shed in New South Wales, Australia |
| 15 | Condominium One, The Sea Ranch | Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, Whitaker | 1965 | A settlement of ten residential units on California's north coast |
| 16 | Villa E.1027 | Eileen Gray (and Jean Badovici) | 1926–29 | An architect's vacation house at Cap Martin, on the south coast of France |
| 17 | Church of St Petri | Sigurd Lewerentz | 1963–66 | A Lutheran church in the southern Swedish town of Klippan |
| 18 | Villa Busk | Sverre Fehn | 1987–90 | A musician's house south of Oslo, Norway |
| 19 | Villa Mairea | Alvar Aalto | 1937–39 | A house in the woods of western Finland |
| 20 | Thermal Baths, Vals | Peter Zumthor | 1996 | A bathing complex attached to a hotel in a Swiss valley |
| 21 | Ramesh House | Liza Raju Subhadra (R.S. Liza) | 2003 | An environmentally responsive house in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala |
| 22 | Bardi House | Lina Bo Bardi | 1949–52 | A house in its own patch of rainforest on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil |
| 23 | Vitra Fire Station | Zaha Hadid | 1990–93 | A fire station for a furniture factory estate in north Switzerland |
| 24 | Mohrmann House | Hans Scharoun | 1939 | A family house in the Lichtenrade suburb of Berlin, designed to subvert political restrictions |
| 25 | Bioscleave House | Madeline Gins and Arakawa | 2008 | A house extension in East Hampton, New York, designed to subvert relationships with setting to counter mortal degeneration |
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