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Oscar Niemeyer’s Algerian architecture uncoveredJason 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
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Palm Springs Modernism Week 2015: The Coachella valley’s mid-century Mecca comes of age -
Balancing act: a modernist tree-house in Prague by Jan Šépka -
Lease of life: a hidden gem of Brazilian modernism reopens as an art gallery -
Remembering Claude Parent's unique take on modernist architectureWe look back on Claude Parent's slant on modernist architecture, five years after the iconic architect's passing, by revisiting Wallpaper* contributing editor Emma O'Kelly's meeting with him in 2007
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Modernism Week 2017 honours Lautner, while a never-built Beadle comes to life -
André Lurçat-designed school in France scoops 2018 WMF/Knoll Modernism Prize -
The W* Library: flick through February's new titles -
On the shores of Hyères, Design Parade nurtures new French talent -
Mid-century memories: Taschen rediscovers hidden gems in the Julius Shulman vaults -
Jean Prouvé architecture goes on show at Marseille sculpture park -
Canvassing the globe, artist Enoc Perez finds sanctuary in American embassies for a new show -
Pomo erectus: a perfectly aged temple to wine and architecture -
Di Gregorio Associati's cinematic pergola frames a rural Italian homeA concrete pergola becomes a frame for the landscape, and a sculptural transition between interior and exterior, at a house in the Emilian countryside
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Power games: Calvert 22 examines post-Soviet architecture through art -
Modernism meets industry at Friche de l’Escalette, a French art dealer’s sculpture park -
The architects who built Palm Springs: William PereiraWhile contributing only a few seminal projects to Palm Springs, Pereira (1909-85) defined the town’s rich architectural heritage. Pereira’s most famous scheme in the area is arguably Palm Spring’s J. W. Robinson’s Department Store, a large-scale structure in the centre of town, on South Palm Canyon Drive.
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Bauhaus Museum Dessau opens in GermanyAddenda 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
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Dessau’s Bauhaus Museum design reflects philosophy taught by the German school -
The imagined modernist world of 3D artist Alexis Christodoulou -
'Coast Modern' film celebrates West Coast Modernist Architecture -
MoMA celebrates South Asian architecture in the postcolonial eraThe Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition, ‘The Project for Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia 1947 – 1985’, takes us through the aspirations, innovations and visions of South Asian countries after the end of colonial rule in the region
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Wonder walls: a new book celebrates the modernist house as a cultural icon -
A. Quincy Jones’ The Cooper House is a midcentury modern design triumph -
A quiet modernist gem in Suffolk opens its doors in fundraising bid -
This Dutch concrete villa is a calm symphony of interlocking rectangles
