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Modern Houses : Information + Images

Modern Architecture - Images, Examples & Discussion



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 House
Lismhor House - see link below

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.



Modern Houses - Selection

Farnsworth House : Mies van der Rohe, Architect
Farnsworth House
image © gm+ad architects

Zimmerman House : Frank Lloyd Wright
New England house
picture © Adrian Welch

Modern house : Tugendhat Villa, Brno : Mies van der Rohe Architect
Modern Villa
photograph © Adrian Welch

Casa Mila, Barcelona : Antoni Gaudí, Architect
Spanish house
photo © Adrian Welch

Frognal Road House, London, England : Max Fry, Architect
Frognal Road House
picture © Nick Weall

Modern Scottish house - Lismhor House : Kininmonth & Basil Spence
Modern Houses, Scotland
photo from houseowner

The Rink, Scotland : Campbell & Arnott Architects
Modern Houses, Scotland
picture from houseowner

Casa Batllo, Barcelona : Antoni Gaudí, Architect
Casa Batllo
photo © Adrian Welch

Modern Houses : Key Architects + Titles of some Classic Modern Houses

New House Design : contemporary as opposed to simply 20th century

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

Comments on the Modern Houses page welcome : info@e-architect.co.uk

Modern Prague buildings
Modern Prague house
photograph © Adrian Welch

One of the first Modern houses in England:
High & Over, Amersham, Buckinghamshire
1931
Amyas Connell

Villa Müller aka Villa Mueller, Prague, Czech Republic
-
Architect: Adolf Loos
Villa Müller
image © Adrian Welch

Maison de Verre, Paris, France
1932
Pierre Chareau, Architect
Paris house : aka Maison Dalsace / House of Glass

Maison Clarté, Geneva, Switzerland
1932
Le Corbusier

Koerfer House, Switzerland
-
Marcel Breuer

This page is about 'Modern Houses', not simply 'Contemporary Houses' or 'Current Houses''. However, below are selected contemporary buildings (these now appear on the New Houses page and will soon be removed from this page):

Gemini Housing, Copenhagen : MVRDV Architects
Gemini Housing
photo © Adrian Welch

Tokiwa House, Japan : Kenji Tagashira
Tokiwa House
picture : Kei Sugino

Swiss Alps House, Flumserberg, Switzerland : EM2N
Swiss Alps House
photo © Hannes Henz

Kangaroo Valley House, Australia : Turner + Associates
Kangaroo Valley House
photograph © Brett Boardman

Casa del Masso : Marco Castelletti
Casa del Masso
image : Filippo Simonetti - Brunate

Klein Bottle House, nr Melbourne, Australia : McBride Charles Ryan
Klein Bottle House
picture : John Gollings

Parabola house
Parabola house
Architect : Yasuhiro Yamashita (Atelier Tekuto) Photographer : Makoto Yoshida

Slice House, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Brazilian house
image : Marcelo Nunes

American house, New York, USA : ViILA NM : UNStudio Architects
ViILA NM
photo © Christian Richters

Modern French house - Maison á Bordeaux : OMA
Maison Bordeaux
image : Hans Werlemann

American house, Greenwich, USA

photo David Sundberg/ESTO

Casa Pedro Lira, Chile

photograph : Carlos Eguiguren

Industrial Designer House, Tokyo, Japan

picture : Masao Nishikawa

House RR, São Paulo State, Brazil

photo : Nelson Kon

La Reserva House, Chile

image : Carlos Eguiguren

Crystal Brick House, Japan

Architect : Yasuhiro Yamashita (Atelier Tekuto) Photographer : Makoto Yoshida

Afshar House, Edinburgh, Scotland
contemporary style
image from the architect

Boukyo house, Japan

picture from the architect

Contour House, Bellarine Peninsula, Australia

photo : Shannon McGrath




More contemporary houses online soon

Modern Glasgow housing

Modern Cambridge Houses, England:
Modern House Modernist Architecture
photographs © Adrian Welch
11 Wilberforce Rd by David + MM Roberts; House by Trevord Dannatt, Architect

Cambridge Houses - for larger images of these buildings

Modern Edinburgh Houses

On a personal note, my visit to Aalto's Villa Mairea, finding the owners 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 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

American Houses

Modern Home : Casa Batllo

Modern Glasgow Houses



 
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World Architecture : e-architect - key buildings across the globe

Buildings / photos for the Modern Houses page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk

Modern Houses - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt