Modernism
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Silver lining: Guard Tillman Pollock trace 25 residential projects over 25 years
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Oscar Niemeyer’s Algerian architecture uncovered
Jason Oddy’s photographic study of Oscar Niemeyer’s Algerian buildings, set alongside research and archival documents, explores the architecture’s inseparable relationship to revolutionary politics in a new book from Columbia University Press, titled The revolution will be stopped halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Oscar Niemeyer (1907 - 2012)
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Palm Springs Modernism Week 2015: The Coachella valley’s mid-century Mecca comes of age
By Ali Morris • Last updated
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Balancing act: a modernist tree-house in Prague by Jan Šépka
By Adam Štěch • Last updated
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Modernism Week 2017 honours Lautner, while a never-built Beadle comes to life
By Ann Binlot • Last updated
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’Fly’s Eye Dome’ by R Buckminster Fuller lands in Toulouse
By Amy Serafin • Last updated
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André Lurçat-designed school in France scoops 2018 WMF/Knoll Modernism Prize
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Consummate modernist: Moholy-Nagy’s landmark Guggenheim retrospective
By Julie Baumgardner • Last updated
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Mid-century memories: Taschen rediscovers hidden gems in the Julius Shulman vaults
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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Di Gregorio Associati's cinematic pergola frames a rural Italian home
A concrete pergola becomes a frame for the landscape, and a sculptural transition between interior and exterior, at a house in the Emilian countryside
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Inside the archives of American photographer Ezra Stoller
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Bauhaus Museum Dessau opens in Germany
Addenda architects has designed a simple glass box for the second largest collection of Bauhaus objects in the world – bringing much needed climate-controlled and flexible space to the city of Dessau, where the Bauhaus School building designed by Walter Gropius, opened in 1926, is located
By Giovanna Dunmall • Last updated
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The imagined modernist world of 3D artist Alexis Christodoulou
By Jessica Klingelfuss • Last updated
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'Coast Modern' film celebrates West Coast Modernist Architecture
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Wonder walls: a new book celebrates the modernist house as a cultural icon
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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A quiet modernist gem in Suffolk opens its doors in fundraising bid
By Catherine Larner • Last updated
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Lighting auction at Rudolph Schindler’s Fitzpatrick-Leland House, LA
By Carren Jao • Last updated
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Inside Brian Housden’s masterpiece of British modernism
A meeting with De Stijl master Gerrit Rietveld inspired architect Brian Housden (1928-2014) to throw away the timid first drafts of his London home – and instead design one of Britain’s first brutalist dwellings. In November 2014, 78 South Hill Park achieved Grade II-listed status, the same week that the late architect passed away
By Edwin Heathcote • Last updated
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Lord Richard Rogers announces new fellowship scheme at Wimbledon House
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Minimalist interiors inside Álvaro Siza’s New York residential building revealed
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Frank Sinatra’s Palm Springs retreat is renovated with nostalgic 1960s interiors
By Mayer Rus • Last updated
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New home for Albert Frey’s Aluminaire house revealed at Palm Springs Modernism Week
By Hadani Ditmars • Last updated
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Ship shape: nautical modernism takes to the trees in a Highgate house
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Ripple effect: the Palm Springs hotels making waves
There must be something about all that sunshine and blue-on-blue sky, but Palm Springs has long lured a particular tribe of traveller – savvy, design-conscious, and fastidious about their choice of lodgings. Aiding the cause is the area’s haul of classic mid-century architecture, many of which, thanks to generous proportions and outdoor spaces, have been successfully co-opted or refurbished as bright and cheerful hotels.
By Daven Wu • Last updated
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The architects who built Palm Springs: E. Stewart Williams
Most influential in the realm of public and cultural life, Williams’ (1909-2005) legacy can be seen all over town. He’s the architect behind the Palm Springs Art Museum (1976) and the Santa Fe Federal Savings & Loan building (1960) and the Aerial Tramway Station (1963) – a refuge for hikers and wildlife lovers, 2,600m above the town in the San Jacinto Mountains
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Curved space: Eppich House, Arthur Erickson’s mindbending modernist treasure
By Hadani Ditmars • Last updated