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THE SOUTH BANK IN LONDON In 1951, the land south of the Thames River became the site of the Festival of Britain. In attempt to boost postwar morale, a complex of modernist architecture was created to serve as a cultural center which included the Royal Festival Hall, the ciga
HOUSE STYLES - Art Moderne Style House - International Style With the sleek, streamlined appearance of a modern machine, Art Moderne architecture expressed the spirit of a new, technological age. Here are facts about the trendy style of the 1930s and '40s.
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Downtown Chicago: Architects: Frank Lloyd Wright, George Washington Maher, Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe Biographies and studies of famous architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, George Washington Maher, Irving and Allen Pond, Louis Henry Sullivan, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Richard Ernest Schmidt who helped shape downtown Chicago.
Periods and Styles - History of Architecture From Prehistoric to Post-modern, this page will take you on a century-by-century tour through architectural history, with articles, photos and resources. Find ancient monuments, modern skyscrapers, and also an photo guide of favorite house styles.
The Jewish contribution to modern architecture, 1830-1930
THE JEWISH CONTRIBUTION TO MODERN ARCHITECTURE, 1830-1930 By Fredric Bedoire. Jersey City: KTAV Publishing House, in collaboration with Paideia--the ......(Continue Reading) What's modern now? Does the emphasis on the purity of site, program, and client impede the progress of new architecture? - from the editor - Editorial
I've been having this conversation with a number of architects lately: What should we call modern--lowercase "m"--residential architecture now? I mean ......(Continue Reading)Modern classics: Peter York on how postwar buildings went from the height of fashion to yesterday's news - Architecture 2
We fashionable people began to see them differently in, oh, the early 1990s: those postwar, pre-1980s buildings, mostly mid-century modernism-curtain ......(Continue Reading)Malling art: the Museum of Modern Art tries to turn itself into a branch of IKEA
The Museum of Modern Art in New York reopened on November 20 after a three-year--and $425 million--renovation. The occasion has drawn the art world like Nagas at Kumbh Mela to the building. But as...(Continue Reading)The curse of Palladio: as the Raymond Erith exhibition at the Soane Museum makes clear, the interesting question is not 'classical or modern?' but 'good
Raymond Erith--some of whose exquisite drawings are currently on display in a centenary exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum--has long been the most ......(Continue Reading)
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