Modern Architecture - Pictures, Examples & Discussion
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Modern Architecture became linked to a certain genre of building and thus over time wasn't really 'modern' anymore. Thus Modern Houses (or Modernist Houses) suggests a certain style, not simply a 'contemporary' or 'current' construction.
Modern Architecture was associated with some great architects and some powerful countries and companies. It became the equivalent of the Classical Style in the Georgian period, ie the establishment architecture, the status quo. Since the seventies architecture styles have become more fractured and we have - amongst what could be termed contemporary architects - post-modernists, neo-modernists, deconstructivists, contextualists, expressionists and so on.
Modern Houses
We list classic Modern houses by key architects, including Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Pierre Chareau, Adolf Loos, etc.
Selection of Modern Houses:
Modern Scottish house - Lismhor House : Kininmonth & Basil Spence
Photo from houseowner
Zimmerman House : Frank Lloyd Wright
Photo © Adrian Welch
Farnsworth House : Mies van der Rohe, Architect
photo © gm+ad architects
Modern house : Tugendhat Villa, Brno : Mies van der Rohe Architect
Photo © Adrian Welch
Casa Mila, Barcelona : Antoni Gaudí, Architect
Photo © Adrian Welch
The Rink, Scotland : Campbell & Arnott Architects
Photo from houseowner
Casa Batllo, Barcelona : Antoni Gaudí, Architect
Photo © Adrian Welch
Modern Houses : Key Architects + Titles of some Classic Modern Houses
New Houses : contemporary as opposed to simply 20th century
Modern House Architects - links:
Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Antoni Gaudi, Arne Jacobsen, Philip Johnson, Edwin Lutyens, Rennie Mackintosh, Richard Meier, Jorn Utzon, Mies Van der Rohe
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Modern Prague buildings
Photo © Adrian Welch
One of the first Modern houses in England:
High & Over, Amersham, Buckinghamshire
1931
Amyas Connell
Villa Müller aka Villa Mueller, Prague, Czech Republic
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Architect: Adolf Loos
Photo © Adrian Welch
Maison de Verre, Paris, France
1932
Pierre Chareau, Architect
Paris house : aka Maison Dalsace / House of Glass
Maison Clarté, Geneva, Switzerland
1932
Le Corbusier
Koerfer House, Switzerland
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Marcel Breuer
This page is about 'Modern Houses', not simply 'Contemporary Houses' or 'Current Houses''. However, below are selected contemporary buildings (these now appear on the New Houses page and will shortly be removed from this page):
Gemini Housing, Copenhagen, Denmark
Photo © Adrian Welch
Tokiwa House, Japan
Kei Sugino
Swiss Alps House, Flumserberg, Switzerland
Photo © Hannes Henz
Kangaroo Valley House, Australia
Photograph © Brett Boardman
Casa del Masso, Como, Italy
Filippo Simonetti - Brunate
X House, Quito, Ecuador
Sebastián Crespo
American house, New York, USA : ViILA NM
photo © Christian Richters
Klein Bottle House, nr Melbourne, Australia
John Gollings
Slice House, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Photo: Marcelo Nunes
Parabola house, Japan
Architect : Yasuhiro Yamashita (Atelier Tekuto) Photographer : Makoto Yoshida
Modern French house - Maison á Bordeaux
photo: Hans Werlemann
Corten House, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Photo: Nelson Kon
Barn House Flanders, Belgium
Photo: Kris Vandamme
American house, Greenwich, USA
Photo David Sundberg/ESTO
Casa Pedro Lira, Chile
Photo : Carlos Eguiguren
Industrial Designer House, Tokyo, Japan
Masao Nishikawa
La Reserva House, Chile
Photo Carlos Eguiguren
MacCalman House, Glasgow, Scotland
Photo : Andrew Lee
House in Comano, Ticino, Switzerland
Photo : Pino Musi
Contador-Weller House, Chile
Photograph : Carlos Eguiguren
Montecito Residence, Santa Barbara County, USA
Reflection of Mineral, Tokyo, Japan
Architect : Yasuhiro Yamashita (Atelier Tekuto) Photographer : Makoto Yoshida
Dirk Cove House, Ireland
photograph © Niall McLaughlin
Crystal Brick House, Japan
Architect : Yasuhiro Yamashita (Atelier Tekuto) Photographer : Makoto Yoshida
Falvey House, Victoria, Australia
Photo: Shannon McGrath
Afshar House, Edinburgh, Scotland
Boukyo house, Japan
image from the architect
Contour House, Bellarine Peninsula, Australia
Photo: Shannon McGrath
More contemporary houses online soon
Modern Glasgow housing
Modern Cambridge Houses, England:
11 Wilberforce Rd by David + MM Roberts; House by Trevord Dannatt, Architect
Cambridge Houses - for larger images of these buildings
Modern Edinburgh houses
On a personal note, my visit to Aalto's Villa Mairea, finding the owners were on holiday (shown round by the gardener) on a scholarship to study Modern Finnish Architecture in 2001 at the age of 19, has to be the highlight of my student years.
Later, whilst working for Eva Jiricna a group of us went to see the office's work in Brno - the Lavka Bridge - and to see Mies van der Rohe's Tugendhat Villa. The pictures had never made the house look so seductive but this building has the power of the Barcelona Pavilion, except it was built for a family, for domesticity. The simple red onyx wall designed to glow crimson with the sunset, peppered by opaque stones and small holes, is a tour de force as are the radical full-height windows that dropped into the floor to engage 'house' and 'garden'.
Adrian Welch, Architect
Classic Modern Houses - additions welcome : info@e-architect.co.uk
American Houses
Modern Glasgow houses
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Modern Houses - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
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