Modern Architecture became linked to a certain genre of building and thus
over time wasn't really 'modern' anymore. Thus Modern Houses (or Modernist
Houses) suggests a certain style, not simply a 'contemporary' or 'current'
construction.
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. 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.
Modern Houses
Further down this page we list classic Modern Houses by key Architects,
including Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto,
Pierre Chareau, Adolf Loos, etc.
Selection of Modern Houses:
Swiss Alps
House, Flumserberg, Switzerland : EM2N
Photo © Hannes Henz
Kangaroo
Valley House, Australia : Turner + Associates
Photograph © Brett Boardman
X House, Quito
: Arquitectura X
Sebastián Crespo
Klein Bottle
House, nr Melbourne, Australia : McBride Charles Ryan
John Gollings
Gross
House, Greifensee, nr Zurich, Switzerland : EM2N
Photo © Hannes Henz
Modern
Scottish house - Lismhor House : Kininmonth & Basil Spence
Frank Lloyd Wright - Modern
House : Zimmerman House
Modern French
house : Maison á Bordeaux by OMA
Maison á Bordeaux photo: Hans Werlemann from
OMA 270307
Farnsworth House
: Mies van der Rohe, Architect
Mies van der Rohe building - photo © gm+ad architects
American house,
New York, USA : ViILA NM by UN Studio Architects
photo from UN Studio Architects 280307
Modern
Houses : Dutch Quarter Houses Copenhagen
Modern house : House on Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, Morris & Steedman
Architects
Modern house
: Tugendhat Villa, Brno by Mies van der Rohe Architect
Modern house
: Casa Mila, Barcelona by Antoni Gaudí, Architect
The Rink, Gifford : Campbell & Arnott Architects
Delightful Modern house sited in former Manse garden
Modern houses
: Gemini Housing, Copenhagen : MVRDV Architects
Modern Houses : Key
Architects + Titles of some Classic Modern Houses
Modern House Architects
noted above - links:
Marcel Breuer
Le Corbusier
Antoni Gaudi
Arne Jacobsen
Philip Johnson
Edwin Lutyens
Rennie Mackintosh
Richard Meier
Jorn Utzon
Mies Van der Rohe
If you have comments on the Modern Houses page, or wish to suggest additions,
please mail us at info@e-architect.co.uk
One of the first Modern houses in England:
High & Over, Amersham, Buckinghamshire
1931
Amyas Connell
Remember this page is primarily about 'Modern Houses' , not simply
a 'Contemporary Houses' or 'Current Houses''. However, below are two contemporary
buildings
22 Upper Gilmore Place Edinburgh: 2005
Andy Stoane Architect
Modern Concrete House in Edinburgh suburbs
Afshar House Edinburgh: 2003
Oberlanders Architects
White Modernist House
On a personal note, my visit to Aalto's Villa Mairea, finding the owners
were on holiday and being shown round by the gardener on a scholarship
to study Modern Finnish Architecture in 2001 at the age of 19, has to
be the highlight of my student years.
Later, whilst working for Eva Jiricna a group of us went to see the office's
work in Brno - the Lavka Bridge - and to see Mies van der Rohe's Tugendhat
Villa. The pictures had never made the house look so seductive but this
building has the power of the Barcelona Pavilion, except it was built
for a family, for domesticity. The simple red onyx wall designed to glow
crimson with the sunset, peppered by opaque stones and small holes, is
a tour de force as are the radical full-height windows that dropped into
the floor to engage 'house' and 'garden'.
Adrian Welch, Architect
Key Architects + Titles of some Classic Modern Houses: additions
welcome:
info@e-architect.co.uk
Modern
houses in Edinburgh
Modern
houses in Glasgow : some key examples below:
Feature Property from 2005: MacCalman
House
Feature Property: Waddell
House by Studio KAP Architects
Bell-Simpson
house
Duncan
House
Kames
House
Laggan
House
Macfarlane
House
more contemporary Glasgow houses online soon
Modern
housing : Glasgow housing
Scottish house projects:
Corrour House
: Moshe Safdie Architects
Modern house
: Skye
Cambridge, England: Modern Houses
Modern building, 11 Wilberforce Rd - David + MM Roberts
House - Trevord Dannatt, Architect
Cambridge Houses
- for larger images of these buildings
Modern Houses
- England
Modern Architects
Contemporary Architects
Scottish Architecture
World Architecture : e-architect
- a guide to key buildings across the globe
Modern House :
Casa Batllo, Barcelona by Antoni Gaudí, Architect
Looking for a home
loan in California? Get great mortgage
rates on an array of different California
mortgages to choose from. So next time you need a home mortgage check
us out for all of your home
financing needs and get a great rate.
Buildings / photos for the Modern Houses page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk
Modern Houses - page : adrian
welch / isabelle lomholt