Modernism
Explore modernism across art, architecture and design
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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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Canvassing the globe, artist Enoc Perez finds sanctuary in American embassies for a new show
By Ann Binlot 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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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
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'Coast Modern' film celebrates West Coast Modernist Architecture
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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MoMA celebrates South Asian architecture in the postcolonial era
The 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
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Wonder walls: a new book celebrates the modernist house as a cultural icon
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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A. Quincy Jones’ The Cooper House is a midcentury modern design triumph
By Nate Berg Last updated
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This Dutch concrete villa is a calm symphony of interlocking rectangles
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Lighting auction at Rudolph Schindler’s Fitzpatrick-Leland House, LA
By Carren Jao Last updated
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Inside Brian Housden’s masterpiece of British modernism
A meeting with De Stijl master Gerrit Rietveld inspired architect Brian Housden (1928-2014) to throw away the timid first drafts of his London home – and instead design one of Britain’s first brutalist dwellings. In November 2014, 78 South Hill Park achieved Grade II-listed status, the same week that the late architect passed away
By Edwin Heathcote Last updated
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Lord Richard Rogers announces new fellowship scheme at Wimbledon House
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Minimalist interiors inside Álvaro Siza’s New York residential building revealed
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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London’s brutalist Balfron Tower opens two eclectically designed show apartments
Ab Rogers Design and Studio Egret West have combined restoration, creativity and collaboration to design the interiors of two show apartments in one of London’s most iconic residential towers
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Frank Sinatra’s Palm Springs retreat is renovated with nostalgic 1960s interiors
By Mayer Rus Last updated
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Seattle’s art deco Asian Art Museum gains a modern extension
LMN Architects brings the Seattle Asian Art Museum into the 21st century with a modern glass and sandstone extension that makes a surprisingly seamless addition to an iconic art deco institution at the heart of public culture in the Pacific North West region
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Ship shape: nautical modernism takes to the trees in a Highgate house
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated