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What Is Modern Architecture? Our Guide to the Iconic Design Movement
Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...
The Aluminaire House drew crowds, and ridicule, in 1931. After several moves and a brush with demolition, it has found a home in Southern California. By Jori Finkel Reporting from Palm Springs, Calif.
Asplund, Entrance Pavilion, Stockholm Exhibition 1930: “A composition of houses, flags, floodlights, flowers, fireworks, happy people and clean table cloths...” (Aalto) (Drawing by Max Söderholm.
The history of modern architecture has been well covered in classical surveys that traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until ...
A new public library, designed and built by Dallas architect Dan Shipley, should change that. Although it is not the kind of ...
The living room at Kepes Cottage, a 1946 design by Marcel Breuer for Gyorgy Kepes, which he later replicated for his own Breuer family cottage. (All images courtesy Monacelli Press) The sense that ...
Spokane's skyline boasts three iconic buildings. The Pavilion. Gifted to the city by the United States government in preparation for Expo '74, the cable structure is unlike any other in Spokane. The ...
Amaza Lee Meredith at work in 1958 on plans for an addition to the Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, VA (Virginia State University Special Collections and Archives; courtesy Getty) Already a ...
You’ve seen them. Perhaps they’ve taken over your neighborhood, packing in cheek-by-jowl, straddling hillsides and squeezing out every square inch of space that zoning laws allow. They are modern box ...
The past year saw an abundance of new books of interest to Canadian architects—many of them authored by Canadian designers.
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