Structuralism in International
Architecture

1
Le Corbusier, Housing Estate
"La Sainte-Baume", Project 1948

2
Johannes Duiker and Bernard
Bijvoet, Masterplan Sanatorium
"Zonnestraal"- Hilversum, 1926-28

3
Amancio d'Alpoim Guedes, Saipal
Bakery Lourenço Marques (Moçam-
bique), 1952-54

4
Kenzo Tange, Tokyo Bay Plan,
stages of five years, Project 1960

5
Alison and Peter Smithson, Golden
Lane City, Project 1952


Architects of different countries
are representatives of the
structuralist movement. In the
USA Louis Kahn made various
contributions. In Japan Kenzo
Tange wrote in 1981:

It was, I believe, around 1959 or
in the beginning of the Sixties,
that I started to think about what
I was later to call structuralism.
(Quotation in Plan 2/1982, Am-
sterdam)

The five schemes on the left side
are published in the book:
A. Lüchinger, "Structuralism in
Architecture and Urban Planning",
Stuttgart 1980