Modernism
Explore modernism across art, architecture and design
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London midcentury courtyard house gets a refresh by William Smalley
This midcentury courtyard house refurbishment project by William Smalley is the result of the architect’s close work with clients and the building’s original fabric
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Jasmina Cibic on feminism, nation building and modernist architecture
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Feilden Clegg Bradley unveils refresh of South Bank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room
By Clare Dowdy Last updated
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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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LA modern: Schindler's Van Dekker house receives LA Conservancy award
By Adam Štěch 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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Galerie Patrick Seguin installs Jean Prouvé’s demountable house at Château La Coste
By Christopher Stocks Last updated
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Lease of life: a hidden gem of Brazilian modernism reopens as an art gallery
By Adam Štěch Last updated
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Remembering Claude Parent's unique take on modernist architecture
We 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
By Emma O'Kelly 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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André Lurçat-designed school in France scoops 2018 WMF/Knoll Modernism Prize
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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The W* Library: flick through February's new titles
By Melina Keays Last updated
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Blueprint for living: exploring London’s post-war housing at the Fitzhugh Estate
By Caragh McKay Last updated
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On the shores of Hyères, Design Parade nurtures new French talent
By Sujata Burman 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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Jean Prouvé architecture goes on show at Marseille sculpture park
By Jean Grogan Last updated
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Pomo erectus: a perfectly aged temple to wine and architecture
By Jonathan Bell 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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Power games: Calvert 22 examines post-Soviet architecture through art
By Sara Sturges Last updated
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Modernism meets industry at Friche de l’Escalette, a French art dealer’s sculpture park
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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The architects who built Palm Springs: William Pereira
While 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.
By Ellie Stathaki 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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Dessau’s Bauhaus Museum design reflects philosophy taught by the German school
By Giovanna Dunmall Last updated
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The imagined modernist world of 3D artist Alexis Christodoulou
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated