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Modern Houses
20th Century Home Images, Examples of key Properties & Discussion
Introduction to Modern Houses
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.

photo : Sara Sackner
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.
Famous Modern Houses
Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA - news

photograph courtesy The National Trust for Historic Preservation
Philip Johnson Glass House - 27 Aug 2012
New program reintroduces fresh flowers to the Glass House; floral displays to be inspired by and reflect design sensibility of Philip Johnson and David Whitney. Will coincide with the Glass House tour season, May to November 2012. Generously supported by Architectural Digest magazine.
Martin House Complex, Buffalo, USA
Frank Lloyd Wright

photo : Biff Henrich / courtesy MHRC
Modern Architecture in Buffalo - added 20 Apr 2012
Frank Lloyd Wright designed a unique residential complex for wealthy Buffalo businessman Darwin D. Martin and his family between 1903-1905. The most substantial and highly developed of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie houses in the Eastern United States, The Darwin D. Martin House received National Historic Landmark status in 1986.
Capel Manor House Guest Pavilion, Kent, England
Ewan Cameron Architects

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Modern House - 18 Nov 2011
The brief was to design a guest pavilion comprising 2 bedroom suites that would sit adjacent to an Italianate orangery from 1860, on the grounds of Capel Manor House, an iconic modernist pavilion designed by Michael Manser in the late 1960s.
Modernist Houses - Recent Additions
Houses of Sagaponac, Long Island, NY, USA
Bachman Wilson House, NJ by Frank Lloyd Wright:

picture from Brown Harris Stevens
Houses of Sagaponac
Luxury real estate firm Brown Harris Stevens announces “Houses of Sagaponac,” a modernist residential development. The project features a series of houses created by internationally recognized architects who were given the directive to achieve design excellence and push the envelope of contemporary architecture resulting in a community by and for thinking people.
Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France
1956-1959/63
Alvar Aalto, architect

photograph © Collection Maison Louis Carré
Modern French House
Villa La Roche, Paris, France - added 12 Jun 2011
1925
Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret

photograph © Karavan
Modern Paris House : Le Corbusier design
Miller House, Columbus, Indiana, USA
Eero Saarinen - opens to public - added 10 May 2011

photo Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Modern House : Eero Saarinen design
Miller House is one of the country’s most highly-regarded examples of mid-century Modernist residences and was designed by Eero Saarinen, with interiors by Alexander Girard, and landscape design by Dan Kiley. Members of the Miller family donated the house and gardens, along with many of its original furnishings, to the Museum.
New Photos of a significant Modern House
High & Over, England : 1930s house design by Amyas Connell, architect - added 25 Jun 2010

photo : Morley von Sternberg
Modern English house - one of the first Modern houses in England
The design evolved as a Y-shaped plan to optimise views and sunlight for the property. There were no modern houses of quality in England at the time, but the architect had toured Europe and was aware of developments there. Concrete was the material that was regarded as ‘modern’ and the house was designed in concrete, but had to be redesigned as concrete frame with brick infill before local builders could face it. It was all rendered over to look like concrete.
Villa Savoye, France : pictures of famous Le Corbusier house as a ruin - added 10 Mar 2010

photo © Vìctor Gubbins
Famous Modern House
Further down this page we list classic Modern Houses by major architects, including Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Pierre Chareau, Adolf Loos, etc.
Modern Houses Selection

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Farnsworth House, USA
design by Mies van der Rohe, architect
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Zimmerman House, USA
one of many Modern houses by Frank Lloyd Wright
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photo : Sara Sackner |
Arango Residence, Acapulco, Mexico
design by John Lautner
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photo : Martin Polak |
Villa Müller, Prague, Czech Republic
design by architect Adolf Loos
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Modern Czech house : Tugendhat Villa, Brno, Czech Republic
design by Mies van der Rohe Architect
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photo © Adrian Welch |
Casa Mila, Barcelona, Spain
design by Antoni Gaudí, Architect
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picture © Nick Weall |
Frognal Road House, London, England
design by Max Fry, Architect
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photo K. Wheeler |
Beckhard House, Glen Cove, USA c.1964
design by Herbert Beckhard
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photo : Erik H. Neil |
Rebhuhn House, Glen Cove, USA c.1938
design by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Modernist house : Lismhor House, Scotland
design by Kininmonth & Basil Spence
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The Rink, Scotland : Modernist house
design by Campbell & Arnott Architects
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photo © Adrian Welch |
Casa Batllo, Barcelona
celebrated Catalan house by Antoni Gaudí, architect
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More Modern houses online soon
Modern Houses : Key architects + titles of some Classic Modern Houses
New House Design : contemporary houses as opposed to simply 20th century houses
Modern House Architects - principal designers:
Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Antoni Gaudi, Arne Jacobsen, Philip Johnson, Edwin Lutyens, Rennie Mackintosh, Richard Meier, Jorn Utzon, Mies Van der Rohe
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Modern Prague Buildings - Modernist house by architect Mart Stam:

house photograph © Adrian Welch
Modern Houses - No Images
Maison de Verre, Paris, France
1932
Pierre Chareau, Architect
Modern house : aka Maison Dalsace / House of Glass - this Modern house appears in most key books on the History of Architecture
This page is about 'Modern Houses', not simply 'Contemporary Houses' or 'Current Houses'. However, below are selected contemporary buildings (these now appear in full on the New Houses page).
More Modernist houses online soon
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Modern Cambridge Houses, England

houses photographs © AW
11 Wilberforce Rd house by David + MM Roberts; house by Trevord Dannatt, Architect
Cambridge Houses - for more properties
Modern Edinburgh Houses
European Modern Houses
Personal Note from the e-architect Editor:
My visit to Aalto's Villa Mairea, finding the owners of the house were on holiday (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 years as an architecture student.
Later, whilst working for Eva Jiricna Architects a group of us visited the office's work in Brno and to see one of Mies van der Rohe's best houses, the Tugendhat Villa. Mies designed many houses earlier in his career whilst in Europe. The Tugendhat Villa is one of the best modern houses I've visited. Adrian Welch, Architect

Lismhor House - see link towards top of the page
Major Architects + Titles of some Classic Modern Houses - property additions welcome
New Houses
American Houses
Contemporary Houses
Modern Glasgow Houses
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