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Modern Architecture, Images, Projects, Links, Examples, Houses, News
Modernist Architecture : Information
Modern Buildings & The International Style
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 - Key Buildings
Barcelona Pavilion, Spain
1929; reconstructed 1983-86
Mies van der Rohe, Architect

photograph © adrian welch
Barcelona Pavilion
Highpoint I, Highgate, London, UK
1935
Berthold Lubetkin Architect

photograph © adrian welch
Modernist Housing : Highpoint
Lawn Road Flats, London. UK
1934
Wells Coates

photo © Robin Lambert
Modernism : Isokon
Tugendhat Villa, Brno, Czech Republic
1930
Mies van der Rohe, Architect

picture © adrian welch
Modern Architecture : Tugendhat
Villa
Unité d'Habitation, Berlin, Germany
1959
Le Corbusier, Architect

photo © isabelle lomholt
Modern Berlin housing
Villa Savoie, Poissy, France
1929
Le Corbusier, Architect

building image © rebecca breun
Modern French house
Modernism
Modern Architecture was a product of the mid-20th century. Described
as the International Style by Reyner Banham, the style was linked
with architects such as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe and prevalent
in Europe and USA initially.
Modern Architecture 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 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
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Modern Architects
Le Corbusier Show : The Interior of the Cabanon

interior photo : Andrea Ferrari
Modern Architecture Exhibition
: RIBA, London
Famous World Architects - Contemporary
Santiago Calatrava
Terry Farrell I Foster
& Partners
Frank Gehry
Zaha Hadid I Steven
Holl
Daniel Libeskind
Richard Meier
Richard Rogers
American Le Corbusier building - UN
Building New York
Modern Architecture House
: Frank Lloyd Wright house

photograph © adrian welch
Modern Architecture Photos
: Barcelona Pavilion

World Architecture : e-architect
- key buildings across the globe
Comments / photos for the Modern Architecture page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk
Modern Architecture - page : adrian welch / isabelle
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