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At last year’s inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, one of the celebrated exhibits was Architecture is Everywhere by Sou Fujimoto Architects, in which the firm used everyday items like staples, boxes, potato chips, rocks, and ping pong balls, coupled with scaled human figures to posit new architectural forms. Operating with the philosophy that “architecture is first found and then made,” the project expresses the firm’s belief that we need not look to typical sources for bold thinking on the formal possibilities of architecture.

Building on this philosophy and using only the white-brick Legos from the company’s Studio Architecture kit, Berlin-based artist Arndt Schlaudraff has created a series of constructions that emulate real-world precedents, but lack their materiality and color. The results are sterilized, scaleless forms restricted by the orthogonality of the interlocking brick forms. These stripped Brutalist and Modernist buildings morph into white-washed facsimiles which allow us to see many recognizable projects with a set of fresh eyes. Posting the completed projects on Instagram, Schlaudraff has reimagined icons like the Tate Modern, Alejandro Aravena’s Innovation Center UC, and the Barcelona Pavilion of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, interspersing them with his own creations and adding another layer of reality distortion to that which is already enabled by the Legos.

#lego #legoarchitecturestudio #architecture #brutalism #legoarchitecture #memorial

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Nov 15, 2015 at 3:11am PST

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#legoarchitecture #legoarchitecturestudio #stairs #architecture #lego #brutalism

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Dec 19, 2015 at 1:28pm PST

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#design #legoarchitecture #architecture #legoarchitecturestudio #alphaandomegatowers

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Dec 29, 2015 at 2:34pm PST

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This is the Wanda Academy in Langfang, China. I extended the design from HYHW Architects with an outside staircase which goes from the ground level directly to the second floor. #wandaacademy #langfang #HYHW #legoarchitecture #lego #legoarchitecturestudio #design #architecture

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Jan 6, 2016 at 1:16am PST

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#forumhotelkrakow #krakow #legoarchitecture #legoarchitecturestudio #lego #architecture #brutalism #socialistmodernism #design

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Jan 10, 2016 at 7:51am PST

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This is my Lego Version of the Hotel Panorama in Czechoslovakia – a brutalist Masterpiece #brutalism #legoarchitecture #legoarchitecturestudio #lego #design #brutalarchitecture #architecture #hotelpanorama

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Jan 12, 2016 at 12:23pm PST

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I call this a concerthall. Parts if this building maybe really exists but i don't know where 😁 I maybe saw a picture of a similar building and extended it with my iwn designideas. #lego #concerthall #legoarchitecture #legoarchitecturestudio #design #brutalism #brutalarchitecture #architecture #modernarchitecture

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Jan 16, 2016 at 1:30am PST

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#modularhouse #framehouse #lego#legoarchitecture #legoarchitecturestudio #design #architecture #brutalism #brutalarchitecture

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Jan 16, 2016 at 1:55pm PST

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This is my version of a brutalist embassy. #brutalism #brutalarchitecture #embassy#architecture #lego #legoarchitecture #legoarchitecturestudio #design #whitebricks #bricks

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Jan 19, 2016 at 1:33pm PST

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#barcelonapavillon #barcelona #ludwigmiesvanderrohe #miesvanderrohe #miesvanderrohepavilion #lego #legoarchitecture #legoarchitecturestudio #internationalstyle #bauhaus #moderne

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Jan 29, 2016 at 3:00pm PST

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This is the Innovation Center UC in Santiago/Chile from this years pritzker prize winner Alejandro Aravena. Well deserved price winner. Congratulations! #alejandroaravena #innovationcenteruc #chile #architecture #brutalism #brutalarchitecture #legoarchitecture #legoarchitecturestudio #lego #pritzkerprize2016

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Jan 31, 2016 at 1:50am PST

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This is the Salk Institute in La Jolla/California. Build in 1963 from the amazing architect Louis Kahn. #legoarchitecture #lego #legoarchitecturestudio #architecture #brutalism #brutalarchitecture #louiskahn #salkinstitute

A photo posted by Arndt Schlaudraff (@lego_tonic) on Feb 10, 2016 at 12:38pm PST

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