As the longest running scripted show on TV, “The Simpsons” has been a cultural icon for more than 20 years. What better way to find out the world’s most universally recognised iconic structures and architects than through a modern architecture tour with everyone’s favourite yellow family?
Maggie builds a model of Herzog & de Meuron’s Birds Nest stadium in Beijing.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in NYC ‘Simpsonised’
Bart explores Diller Scofidio and Renfro’s iconic High Line park in NYC:
Rem Koolhaas teaches elementary school students about lego architecture with a model of his CCTV building in Beijing:
Famous architecture including the Taj Mahal, Westminster Abbey, OMA’s CCTV building, and Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasilia National Congress building featured in a model making competiton at Springfield Elementary School.
A Frank Lloyd Wright style house:
Design magazine ‘Dwell’ featuring mid-century modernism
And most famously, Frank Gehry starred as himself in the fourteenth episode of season sixteen, designing a concert hall for Springfield by crumpling a piece of paper:
What architect or building do you think deserves to be on “The Simpsons”?
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