Modernist Architecture : Architectural Information + Images

We have some classic Modern buildings online, such as Mies van der Rohe's Tugendhat Villa & Barcelona Pavilion, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, housing by Berthold Lubetkin and Le Corbusier's Ville Savoie. Modern Architecture - Key Buildings Barcelona Pavilion, Spain 1929; reconstructed 1983-86 Mies van der Rohe, Architect photograph © adrian welch Barcelona Pavilion 860-880 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, USA 1951 Mies van der Rohe, Architect photo : William Zbaren Lake Shore Drive Towers Highpoint I, Highgate, London, UK 1935 Berthold Lubetkin Architect photograph © adrian welch Modernist Housing : Highpoint Buildings Lawn Road Flats, London, UK 1934 Wells Coates photo © Robin Lambert Modernism : Isokon Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 1956 Frank Lloyd Wright photo : David M. Heald, © SRGF, New York Guggenheim Museum New York 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 Florida Southern Colleges - Child of the Sun, Florida, USA 1938-59 Frank Lloyd Wright photo © Robin Hill Florida Southern Colleges Buildings V. C. Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco, California, USA 1948 Frank Lloyd Wright San Francisco Architecture - more photos 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 - Vladimir Karfik Labworth Café, Canvey Island - Christiani & Nielsen Paddington Maintenance Depot, northwest London 1966-68 Bicknell & Hamilton Modernist railway building Royal Corinthian Yacht Club Building - Joseph Emberton Wood House, Shipbourne, Kent - Walter Gropius