You’re a chipper young first-year student, still soft and tender in the early stages of your induction into the cult of architecture. Apart from fiddling with drafting triangles and furiously scribbling down the newfound jargon that is going to forever change how you communicate, you often find yourself planted in a seat, eyes transfixed to a projector screen as your professor-slash-cult-leader flashes images of the architecture world's masterpieces, patron saints, and divine structures.
Soon, you develop a Pavlovian response: you instinctively recognize these buildings, can name them at once and recite a number of soundbites about their design that have lodged themselves in your brain. Your professor looks on in approval. Since we here at ArchDaily have also partaken in this rite of passage, here are 15 buildings that we all recognize from the rituals of architecture school.
Acropolis of Athens / Ictinus, Callicrates, Mnesikles & Phidas
Roman Pantheon / Emperor Hadrian
Cenotaph for Newton / Etienne-Louis Bouillée
The Crystal Palace / Joseph Paxton
Fagus Factory / Walter Gropius & Adolf Meyer
Villa Savoye / Le Corbusier
Barcelona Pavilion / Mies van der Rohe
Villa Malaparte / Adalberto Libera
Maison de Verre / Pierre Chareau & Bernard Bijvoet
Seagram Building / Mies van der Rohe
Habitat 67 / Moshe Safdie
Munich Olympic Stadium / Frei Otto & Gunther Behnisch
Therme Vals / Peter Zumthor
Seattle Central Library / OMA + LMN
House N / Sou Fujimoto
How will this list of classics fare in future generations? Time will tell!