Modernist architecture

Paulo Mendes da Rocha Casa Millán living room

Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s São Paulo house for art dealer Eduardo Leme

When art dealer Eduardo Leme was a boy in São Paulo, he used to look out with endless fascination at a striking modernist house two blocks away. It was the home of Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. When Leme saw...

Architecture / 8 days ago

LA architect Ray Kappe’s duo of houses pair modernist and organic ideas

Only a few metres from the busy traffic of Sunset Boulevard in Brentwood, Los Angeles, there is a space as calming and as restful as a cup of green tea. Hidden from the hectic city by bamboo, trees and grasses...

Architecture / 13 days ago

Spanish residence Casa OS is a superb lesson in modernist architecture

About 15km east of Santander, in northern Spain, as the suburbs and holiday homes start to give way to rocky cliffs and windswept scrubby bluffs, nestles as neat an exercise in camouflage as you’re likely to find in a modernist...

Art / 8 Mar 2019

Photographer Mona Kuhn reflects on mysticism and modernism in Joshua Tree

A modernist glass house on the edge of Joshua Tree is the setting for artist Mona Kuhn’s mysterious new series, She Disappeared into Complete Silence, released as a book published by Steidl. The desert terrain of the southeastern Californian national...

Architecture / 23 Feb 2019

The architects who built Palm Springs: John Lautner

Without the futuristic, concrete creations of celebrated American architect John Lautner (1911-1994), you wonder what Hollywood film directors would do for fictional lairs for the rich, powerful... and occasionally, evil. His gravity-defying residential projects have probably appeared in more movies...

Mimouca Barcelona renovated Antoni Gaudí apartment

Design / 22 Feb 2019

An apartment inside a modernist marvel by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona gets reimagined

Barcelona’s Eixample district is a playground for Spanish modernist architecture enthusiasts. Antonio Gaudí was one of the architects who built the area, and recently, an apartment in his first modernist marvel in the district has been refurbished by local interiors...

Architecture / 18 Feb 2019

Inside Europe’s modernist estates and their distinct cultures

Modernist Estates Europe builds a humanist portrait of life at 15 residential housing estates across the continent. Author Stefi Orazi, a graphic designer by trade, compiles short architectural histories of the estates alongside photography and intereviews with residents. The project began when Orazi was...

Architecture / 15 Feb 2019

Bauhaus residence of entrepreneur Mati Broudo in Tel Aviv renovated by AN+ architects

Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus architecture has long been a draw for design devotees, who travel to the Israeli city to see the some 4,000 Bauhaus-style buildings that were built there from the 1930s onwards. Designed by German-Jewish architects who immigrated...

Architecture / 25 Jan 2019

The architects who built Palm Springs: E. Stewart Williams

It’s hard to imagine snow in Palm Springs, but at the Aerial Tramway Mountain Station 2,600m above the town in the San Jacinto Mountains, it’s possible and fairly regular. A refuge for hikers and wildlife lovers, the station designed by...

John Pardey Architects Pooley House living room

Architecture / 14 Jan 2019

British and Scandinavian design meet in John Pardey’s easy rural modernism

An elegant modesty characterises John Pardey’s houses. They are subtle, sophisticated buildings, grounded and integrated into the landscape, inspired by the natural aesthetic of 1960s Scandinavian design. Pardey has always made his own way and now, after patient years building...