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Modern Buildings & The International style

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Modern Architecture or Modernism was a product of the mid-20th century.
Famously coined as the International Style by Reyner Banham, the style was linked notably with Le Corbusier and central European and generally western architecture. It eventually made its way to the Developing World and also to colder climates in the North where the white concrete didn't always weather so well.

Modern Architecture was associated with some great architects and some
powerful countries and companies. It became the equivalent of the Classical Style in the Georgian period, ie the establishment architecture, the status quo. The key Modern Architects are generally accepted to be Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright though clearly many will suggest others.

Since the seventies architecture styles have become more fractured and we have - amongst what could be termed contemporary architects - post-modernists, neo-modernists, deconstructivists, contextualists, expressionists and so on. 'Contemporary Architects' suggests a position that is anti-vernacular, comfortable with new materials and non-local materials & forms, using architectural language that is not generally steeped in past typographies or traditions.



Modern Architecture : Tugendhat Villa

Modern Architecture : Barcelona Pavilion

Modern Buildings - UK:

Bata Shoe Factory, Tilbury, east London
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Vladimir Karfik

Labworth Café, Canvey Island
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Christiani & Nielsen

Paddington Maintenance Depot, northwest London
1966-68
Bicknell & Hamilton
Modernist railway building

Royal Corinthian Yacht Club
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Joseph Emberton

Wood House, Shipbourne, Kent
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Walter Gropius

Modern Architects / Contemporary Architects

Famous World Architects - Contemporary:
Santiago Calatrava
David Chipperfield
Terry Farrell
Foster & Partners
Future Systems
Frank Gehry
Zaha Hadid
Michael Hopkins
Steven Holl
Toyo Ito
Eva Jiricna
Henning Larsen
Daniel Libeskind
MVRDV
Richard Meier
Enric Miralles
Cesar Pelli
Richard Rogers



Modern Architecture : Zaha Hadid building

Cambridge Architecture
Hong Kong Architecture
New York Architecture
Paris Architecture

Postmodern Architecture

We have some classic Modern buildings online, such as Mies van der Rohe's Tugendhat Villa & Barcelona Pavilion, a Frank Lloyd Wright house, and more contemporary buildings by architects such as Norman Foster, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid.

Modern Architecture : Frank Lloyd Wright house

World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

Modern Architecture Books

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Modern Architecture - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt