Whatever else one might think of Walter Gropius—the pioneering German architect who founded the Bauhaus a century ago this year and thereby earned an irrevocable place in the pantheon of Modernism—it is hard not to be impressed by his most salient talent: survival. After each new somersault of fate he somehow landed on his feet and emerged undeterred.
People share the most impressive examples of modernist architecture in the subreddit r/ModernistArchitecture and here are 30 of them.
El (Lazar Markovich) Lissitzky (1890–1941) was a Russian avant-garde artist and polymath who left behind him a profound impact on the world of art and design. His revolutionary and radical notions of…
People share the most impressive examples of modernist architecture in the subreddit r/ModernistArchitecture and here are 30 of them.
El (Lazar Markovich) Lissitzky (1890–1941) was a Russian avant-garde artist and polymath who left behind him a profound impact on the world of art and design. His revolutionary and radical notions of…
Sebastian Weiss’ sunny images encourage the viewer to look upwards towards Europe’s most impressive concrete structures
An exhibition of Soviet Modernist architecture from across the former USSR
In this excerpt from Phaidon’s Art and Time, we delve into the influential faction's early history—keep an eye out for the ways in which their approach continues to impact art and design to this day.
rudolfsteinerweb.com Rudolf Steiner’s second Geotheanum, completed in 1928, is the largest building in the German expressionist architectural movement. The revolutionary use of poured concrete...
A new map shines a light on 50 modernist buildings in Berlin, exhuming the city's political history along the way.
Take a look back at the work of one of the pioneers of Modernist architecture, as seen in the pages of AD.
by Kristina Nugent When Paul Rudolph left Twitchell’s Florida partnership to start his own practice in 1951, the period that followed marked Rudolph’s swift departure from the International Style i…
Despite shooting for Vanity Fair and Vogue in the 1930s – the protégé of Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz – Lusha Nelson is now mostly forgotten. The ‘Forgotten Modernist’ as Vanity Fair put it a few years ago. Nelson was only six years into an extraordinarily promising and auspicious career when he died of Hodgkin’s … Continue reading "The Forgotten Man – Photographer Lusha Nelson"
“At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. ...
SESC Pompéia Lina Bo Bardi Photographed by Federico Cairoli
Belgian architect Constantin Brodzki's monolithic masterpiece has been renovated to become Boitsfort, a shared office space for the way we want to work now.
Drawing on materials Tschichold collected, this exhibition traces his influence on graphic design between the world wars and his belief that design was a force for social change
Architectural photographer Bogdan Anghel raises awareness on the state of the art of Bucharest’s modernists buildings and the urgency for their conservation.
Asmara owes its stunning Modernist architecture to a dark past of oppression and subjugation by Italian colonial powers.
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Shell-House in Berlin, designed by Emil Fahrenkamp and finished in 1932. Photograph by Gabriele Basilico, 2000. / ConnaissancedesArts
Real life in an unreal time, Brutal Bloc Postcards compiles poignant and surreal postcards that documented life behind the Iron Curtain...
Apartment building in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Picture by Christopher Herwig
Henry Moore: The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this. One of Moore’s several studios He…
La arquitectura brutalista es un estilo que floreció entre los años 1950 y mediados de 1970modernista architectural movement.
From stunningly gorgeous and utopian to cold and soulless, there are probably as many opinions about modernist buildings as there are people in the world. In the eternal discussion about whether function or form is more important, the balance might arguably be skewed in favor of the former when we talk about modernism, the architectural style that dominated much of the 20th century. Though who’s to say that modernism doesn’t allow for beauty and balance?
La Casa del Portuale, Napoli, designed by Aldo Rossi, 1980
Image 1 of 11 from gallery of New Map Celebrates Berlin's Modernist Architecture. Courtesy of Blue Crowe Media
